Cynthia Ozick Criticism: Further Reading

Arana-Ward, Maria. "Cynthia Ozick." Washington Post Book World 20, no. 3 (15 January 1995): 10. (Arana-Ward summarizes Ozick's career and the broad scope of her writing.)

Brookner, Anita. "Knowing the Score in Old New York." Spectator 282, no. 8915 (19 June 1999): 44. (Brookner explores the character of Ruth Puttermesser in The Puttermesser Papers.)

Cheyette, Bryan. "Not Grown Quaint but Old-Fashioned." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4869 (26 July 1996): 24. (Cheyette reflects on Ozick's critical reception in Britain and finds fault with her arguments in Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character and Other Essays on Writing.)

Dandona, Kabir. "Essaying Ozick." Tikkun 16, no. 2 (March 2001): 68–70. (Dandona offers a positive assessment of Quarrel & Quandary.)

Eder, Richard. "Out of Time." Los Angeles Times Book Review (15 June 1997): 2. (Eder praises the wit of The Puttermesser Papers, describing the work as ironic, sympathetic, and haunting.)

Hadas, Rachel. "Text and Stories." Partisan Review 58, no. 3 (summer 1991): 579–85. (Hadas compares Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum with The Shawl, stressing the merits of Ozick's writing over Eco's.)

Mantel, Hilary. "Culture Has Gone to the Cats." Spectator 276, no. 8603 (29 May 1993): 25–26. (Mantel describes Ozick's skill in writing about art in literature in What Henry James Knew and Other Essays.)

Nocera, Gigliola. "Cynthia Ozick and The Pagan Rabbi." In Intertextual Identity: Reflections on Jewish-American Artists, edited by Franco La Polla and Gabriella Morisco, pp. 109–13. Bologna: Patron Editore, 1997. (Nocera offers a positive assessment of The Pagan Rabbi.)

Ozick, Cynthia, and Lewis Frumkes. "A Conversation with Cynthia Ozick." Writer 111, no. 3 (March 1998): 18–20. (Ozick discusses the parallels between herself and her character Ruth Puttermesser.)

Schenk, Leslie. Review of Fame & Folly, by Cynthia Ozick. World Literature Today 71, no. 1 (winter 1997): 158. (Schenk offers a positive assessment of Fame & Folly.)

Wasserstein, Wendy. "Tales of Golem City." Washington Post Book World 27, no. 29 (20 July 1997): 5. (Wasserstein examines the bittersweet tone and realistic descriptions of New York City in The Puttermesser Papers.)

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