REVIEWS

  • Rev. of Second Place: A Novel, by Rachel Cusk. Rain Taxi 26. 3 (2021): 10.

    Rev. of Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Vol. 1 Brooklyn 16 Apr. 2021:

    https://vol1brooklyn.com/2021/04/16/review-kazuo-ishiguro-klara-and-the-sun/

    Rev. of Utopia Avenue, by David Mitchell. The Los Angeles Review 30 Sep. 2020.

    http://losangelesreview.org/review-utopia-avenue-by-david-mitchell/

    “Channeling Cervantes: On Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’.” Los Angeles Review of

    Books 29 Oct. 2019. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/channeling-cervantes-on-salman-rushdies-quichotte/

    Rev. of The Only Story, by Julian Barnes. Phenomenal Literature 4.1 (2019): 133.

    Rev. of A Working Mother, by Agnes Owens. New York Times Book Review 18 Feb. 1996: 17.

  • “Rough Sailing.” Rev. of Signals of Distress, by Jim Crace. Los Angeles Times 28 Jan. 1996: 9.

  • “The Life and Thought of Writer, Socialist and Prophet H.G. Wells.” Rev. of G.: The History of Mr. Wells, by Michael Foot.  Chicago Tribune 14 Jan. 1996: 6-7.

  • “Murder Blurs the Line Between Play and Life.” Rev. of Morality Play, by Barry Unsworth. San Francisco Chronicle 5-11 Nov. 1995: 3.

  • “Golding in Greece.” Rev. of The Double Tongue, by William Golding. Chicago Tribune 8 Oct. 1995: 5.

  • “Still Stirring To Be Still” (review essay). Rev. ofStirrings Still, by Samuel Beckett. Journal of Beckett Studies, New Series 1, 1-2  (1992): 129-35.

  • Rev. of Isherwood’s Fiction: The Self and Technique, by Lisa M. Schwerdt. Modern Fiction Studies 36. 4 (1990): 613.

  • Rev. of Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life, by Marvin Carlson. Modern Language  Quarterly 51. 1 (1990):

  • “Debaucheries of Judiciousness.” Rev. of History and Value, by Frank Kermode, and Contingencies of Value by Barbara Herrnstein Smith.  Modern Language Quarterly 4 (1988): 378-85.

  • Rev. of For Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide When The Streets Were Too Much (play), by Keith Antar Mason.
    L.A. Weekly 18-25 Nov. 1988:

  • Rev. of The Great Fair – Sholom Aleichem on Tour (play), by Chris DeCarlo and Evelyne Rudie. L.A. Weekly 27 Oct.-3 Nov. 1988: 84.

  • “The Grim Riddle of Britain’s Last Colony.” Rev. of Living With War, by Sally Belfrage, and Belfast Diary by John Conroy.  Los Angeles Times 3 Jan. 1988: 12.

  • “Image Clusters.” Rev. of  D.H. Lawrence. The Early Years, by Michael Black. Times Higher Educational Supplement 27 June 1986: 18.

  • “Table Talk.” Rev. of W. H. Auden: The Far Interior, by Alan Bold (ed.), and  H. Auden, by Stan Smith. The Times Higher Educational Supplement 17 Jan. 1986: 19.

  • “Uncertain Auden.” Rev. of  H. Auden: A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter. Irish Press Summer 1981.

  • “A Hindu in Hollywood.” Rev. of My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood. English 29 (1980): 266-71.

  • “Becoming Beckett.” Rev. of Beckett/Beckett, by Vivian Mercier. Irish Press November 1977.

  • “Writer’s Lawrence.” Rev. of Son and Lover: The Young Lawrence, by Philip Callow. Irish Press 23 August 1975.

  • “Great Illusions.” Rev. of First Love, by Samuel Beckett, and A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett, by Hugh Kenner. Irish Press 4 August 1973.

  • “Mrs. D. H.” Rev. of Frieda Lawrence: A Biography, by Robert Lucas. Irish Press 7 July 1973.

  • “Beckett’s ‘I’.” Rev. of Not I, by Samuel Beckett, and The Plays of Samuel Beckett, by Eugene Webb. Irish Press 14 April 1973.

  • “Space Fiction.” Rev. of Rabbit Redux, by John Updike. Irish Press 8 April 1972.

  • “Ulysses’ Skeleton.” Rev. of Ulysses on the Liffey, by Richard Ellmann.  Irish Press 4  March 1972.

  • “Yeats Gallery.” Rev. of  W.B. Yeats and his World, by Michael MacLiammoir and Eavan Boland. Irish Press 27 November 1971.

  • “Robots and Saints.” Rev. of A Fire on the Moon, by Norman Mailer. Irish Press 2 January 1971: 10.

  • “First Fiction.” Rev. of More Pricks Than Kicks, by Samuel Beckett. Irish Press January 1970.