ARTICLES / ESSAYS

  • “#5onFri: Five Non-Fiction Rules Fiction Authors Often Break” DIY MFA. Web. 17 Jan. 2020.  (Published online)

  • “Channeling Cervantes: On Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte.‘” Essay-Review of Quichotte by Salman Rushdie. Los Angeles Review of Books. Web. 29 Oct. 2019.  (Published online)

  • “David Mitchell: Global Novelist of the Twenty-First Century.” The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000. Edinburgh UP, 2017. 27-36.

  • “Mrs Dalloway and the War that Wouldn’t End.” Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs Dalloway” and “To the Lighthouse.” James Acheson. New Casebooks. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. 125-38.

  • “Irony: Truth’s Disguise.” Essay-Review of The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes. Los Angeles Review of Books. 20 Jun. 2016. Web. 25 Jan. 2017.  (Published online)

  • “The David Mitchell Übernovel: Brian Finney Reviews Slade House.” Los Angeles Review of Books. 5 Dec. 2015. Web. 25 Jan 2017.  (Published online)

  • “Adding to the Übernovel: Why David Mitchell Does What He Does.” Essay-Review of The Bone Clocks. Los Angeles Review of Books. 28 Sep. 2014. Web. 12 Jan. 2015.  (Published online)

  • “International Contexts 2: The American Reception of British Fiction in the 1980s.” The 1980s: A Decade of British Fiction. Ed. Philip Tew, Leigh Wilson, and Emily Horton. The Continuum Decades. London & New York: Continuum, 2014. 175-201.

  • “Taking on Hammer Horror: Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate.” Los Angeles Review of Books. 20 Nov. 2013. Web. 25 Jan. 2014. (Published online)

  • “The French Lieutenant’s Woman as Historical Fiction.” John Fowles. Ed. James Acheson. New Casebooks. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 90-103.

  • “A Stupid Outpouring of the Life: Richard Bradford’s Martin Amis.”  Los Angeles Review of Books 21 July 2013 Web. 21 Jul. 2013. (Published online)

  • “Literary Lout: Martin Amis Once Again Faces the Critics.” Los Angeles Review of Books 12 Sep. 2012. Web. 12 Sep. 2012. (Published online)

  • “Perfectly Plausible Worlds.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2011. Web. 7 Jan. 2013 (Published online)

  • “Furious Simulation, or Simulated Fury: Salman Rushdie’s Fury Charmed Fictions: Through Midnight’s Children to The Enchantress of Florence. Ed. Meenakshi Bharat. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2008. 278-92.

  • “Migrancy and the Picaresque in Timothy Mo’s Renegade or Halo2.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 1 (2007): 61-76.

  • “Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow and the Postmodern Sublime.” Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond. Ed. Gavin Keulks. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 101-16.

  • “Briony’s Stand Against Oblivion:  The Making of Fiction in Ian McEwan’s Atonement.” Journal of Modern Literature 27. 3 (2004): 68-82.

  • “A Worm’s Eye View of History: Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters.”  Papers on Language and Literature  1 (2003): 49-70.

  • “Figuring the Real: Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans.” Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies  1 (2002). (Published online)

  • “Bonded by Language: Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body.” Women and Language  2 (2002): 23-31.

  • “Will Self’s Transgressive Fictions.” Essay-Review of Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys. Postmodern Culture 3 (2001). (Published online)

  • “Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie,” “Samuel Beckett,” “Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable, by Samuel Beckett.”  “D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.” Encyclopedia of the Novel. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.

  • “Demonizing Discourse in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 3 (1998): 67-93. Rpt. in Salman Rushdie. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2003. 185-208.

  • “Tall Tales and Brief Lives: Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” Journal of Narrative Technique 28 (1998): 161-85.

  • “Warring Worlds of Words: Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses.” Genre 17 (1997):7-23.

  • “Narrative and Narrated Homicide in Martin Amis’s Other People and London Fields.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 1 (1995): 3-15. Rpt. of pp. 3, 4-7,  8-15 in The Fiction of Martin Amis: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. Ed. Nicholas Tredell,  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. 49-53, 103-10.

  • “Beckett’s Postmodern Fictions.” The Columbia History of the British Novel. JohnRichetti. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. 842-866.

  • “Roth’s Counterlife: Destabilizing The Facts.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 16 (1993): 370-87.

  • “Peter Ackroyd, Postmodernist Play and Chatterton.” Twentieth Century Literature 38 (1992): 240-61.

  • “Suture in Literary Analysis.” LIT: Literature. Interpretation. Theory 2  (1991): 131-144.

  • “Temporal Defamiliarization in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Obsidian II. Black Literature in Review 5 (1990): 20-36. Rpt. in Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Ed. Barbara H. Solomon. New York: G. K. Hall, 1998. 104-116.

  • “Still to Worstward Ho: Beckett’s Prose Fiction Since The Lost Ones.” Beckett’s Later Fiction and Drama: Texts for Company. Ed. James Acheson and Kateryna Arthur. London: Macmillan, New York: St. Martin’s, 1987. 65-79.

  • “Sexual Identity in Modern British Autobiography.” Prose Studies 8 (1985): 29-44. Rpt. in Modern Selves: Essays on Modern British and American Autobiography. Ed Philip Dodd. London and Totoya, New Jersey: Frank Cass, 1986. 29-43.

  • “Boswell’s Hebridean Journal and the Ordeal of Dr Johnson.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 5 (1981): 319-334.

  • “Education and the Arts in London.” Adult Education 54 (1981): 38-41.

  • “Laily, Mortmere and All That.” Twentieth Century Literature 22 (1976): 286-302.

  • “Assumption to Lessness: Beckett’s Shorter Fiction.” Beckett the Shape Changer: A Symposium. Ed. Katherine Worth. London & Boston: Routledge, 1975. 61-83.

  • “Two Versions of ‘Sun’: An Exchange.” The D. H. Lawrence Review 8 (1975): 371-372.

  • “Profile of Christopher Isherwood.” The New Review 2 (1975): 17-24.

  • “Modernism: A Symposium.” (Introduction). The New Review 1 (1975): 12.

  • “A Newly Discovered Text of D. H. Lawrence’s ‘The Lovely Lady’.” Yale University Library Gazette 49 (1975): 245-252.

  • “D. H. Lawrence’s Progress to Maturity: From Holograph Manuscript to Final Publication of The Prussian Officer and Other Stories.”  Studies in Bibliography 28 (1975): 321-332.

  • “Profile of George Lazarus and his Lawrence Collection.” The D. H. Lawrence Review 6 (1973): 309-312.

  • “Two Missing Pages from ‘The Ladybird’.” Review of English Studies 4 (1973): 191-192.

  • “Additional Bibliographical Information on Some D. H. Lawrence Short Stories.” Notes and Queries 19 (1972): 337.

  • “The Hitherto Unknown Publication of Some D. H. Lawrence Short Stories.” Notes and Queries 19 (1972): 55-56.

  • “An Examination of Dylan Thomas’s ‘A Visit to Grandpa’.” The London Review 8 (1971-72): 31-37.

  • “A Reading of Beckett’s Imagination Dead Imagine.” Twentieth Century Literature 17 (1971): 65-71.

  • “An Examination of a Poem by Dylan Thomas.” The London Review 2 (1967): 50-61.

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