Further Reading
- "Call It Sleep Author Henry Roth, 89," Chicago Tribune (13 October 1995): 11. (Notice of Roth's death at age 89.)
- Clark, Eunice, Review of Call It Sleep, by Henry Roth, Common Sense 4, No. 3 (March 1935): 29. (Calls Roth's Call It Sleep "a gold mine of accurate impressions.")
- Dickstein, Morris, "No Longer at Home," Times Literary Supplement, No. 4840 (5 January 1996): 5. (Offers a review of Roth's Shifting Landscape, asserting that Roth comes through as "the ultimate survivor.")
- Farber, Frances D., "Encounters with an Alien Culture: Thematic Functions of Dialect in Call It Sleep," Yiddish 7, No. 4 (1990): 49-56. (Discusses Roth's use of dialect in his Call It Sleep.)
- Folks, Jeffrey, Review of Mercy of a Rude Stream, by Henry Roth, World Literature Today 68, No. 4 (August 1994): 813-14. (Asserts that Mercy of a Rude Stream should be recognized as one of the finest autobiographical fictions of our time.)
- Greenstone, Maryann D., "The Ghetto Revisited: Call It Sleep by Henry Roth," Studies in Bibliography and Booklore IX, No. 1 (Spring 1970): 96-100. (Asserts the importance of Roth's Call It Sleep and provides a bibliography of articles about the novel.)
- Halkin, Hillel, "Henry Roth's Secret," Commentary 97, No. 5 (May 1994): 44-7. (Discusses how Roth's homosexual encounters affected his self-image and his work.)
- Harris, Lis, "A Critic at Large: In the Shadow of the Golden Mountains," The New Yorker LXIV, No. 19 (27 June 1988): 84-92. (Offers an overview of Roth's life and career, and asserts that the alienation found in Roth's Call It Sleep came from the author's own experience as an immigrant.)
- Inge, M. Thomas, "The Ethnic Experience and Aesthetics in Literature: Malamud's The Assistant and Roth's Call It Sleep," Journal of Ethnic Studies 1, No. 4 (Winter 1974): 45-50. (Discusses how Bernard Malamud's The Assistant and Roth's Call It Sleep are both about the "struggle for accommodation and survival of an immigrant family in a new world" and how Call It Sleep gives "special attention to the strains of the relationship between foreign born parents and American bred children.")
- Lesser, Wayne, "A Narrative's Revolutionary Energy: The Example of Henry Roth's Call it Sleep," Criticism XXIII, No. 2 (Spring 1981): 155-176. (Analyzes Roth's Call it Sleep in terms of "how a shared cultural symbolism operates within the text to create an illuminated movement of personal-linguistic history.")
- Orr, Elaine, "On the Side of the Mother: Yonnondio and Call It Sleep," Studies in American Fiction 21, No. 2 (Autumn 1993): 209-23. (Compares the role of the mother in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties and Roth's Call It Sleep.)
- Review of From Bondage, by Henry Roth, Kirkus Reviews LXIV, No. 8 (15 April 1996): 557. (Criticizes Roth's From Bondage as deeply flawed.)
- Rosen, Jonathan, "Lost and Found: Remembering Henry Roth," The New York Times Book Review (10 December 1995): 47. (Discusses Roth's exile from and return to writing.)
- Rosenheim, Andrew, "Growing up absurd in America," Times Literary Supplement, No. 4802 (14 April 1995): 20. (Praises Volume Two of Roth's Mercy of a Rude Stream for its credible and vivid characters and its compelling story.)
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