The essays  range from nuanced assessments of art and architecture to political analyses, history, science, religion, and art, and a newly discovered series on music.Wide-ranging, allusive, and witty, they are informed by the probing skepticism of a highly educated and ironically incisive member of the English upper middle class.Huxley's fascination with the codes and conventions of European culture, his growing apprehensions about the menacing collapse of the European political order, and his awareness of the impact of science and technology on the post-Versailles world of England, France, Germany, and the United States form the basis for his critique.His subjects overlap with the satirical novels he wrote during the period between the wars, culminating inPoint Counter PointandBrave New World.At their best, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature.