Edna O'Brien Criticism: Further Reading

Craig, Patricia. Review of "Tales for the Telling," by Edna O'Brien. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4,371 (9 January 1987): 46. (Provides a synopsis of the stories in Tales for the Telling, which Craig calls "a lively collection.")

Doughty, Louise. "Restless Dreaming Souls." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4549 (August 6 1990): 616. (Favorable review of Lantern Slides.)

Gordon, Mary. "Edna O'Brien: A Fanatic Heart." In Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays, pp. 84-88. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1991. (Views The Fanatic Heart to be a collection of short stories that explores love from a female perspective.)

Jaffee, Annette Williams. Review of "The High Road," by Edna O'Brien. Ms, XVII, No. 5 (November 1988): 76-8. (Highly laudatory assessment of The High Road.)

Lanters, Jose. Review of "Lantern Slides." World Literature Today, 65, No. 2 (Spring 1991): 303-04. (Negative assessment of Lantern Slides.)

O'Hara, Kiera. "Love Objects: Love and Obsession in the Stories of Edna O'Brien." Studies in Short Fiction, 30, No. 3 (Summer 1993): 317-25. (Identifies the female obsession with love as a central theme in O'Brien's stories.)

Osborne, Linda Barrett. "Two Hostages to An Ancient Feud." Washington Post Book World, XXIV, No. 34 (21 August 1994): 3. (Positive review of House of Splendid Isolation, which Osborne characterizes as "a moving portrait of the continuing drama that is Ireland.")

Pearce, Sandra Manoogian. "Edna O'Brien's ‘Lantern Slides’ and Joyce's ‘The Dead’: Shadows of a Bygone Era." Studies in Short Fiction, 32, No. 3 (Summer 1995): 437-46. (Finds parallels between “Lantern Slides” and James Joyce's “The Dead.”)

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