Jim Crace Criticism: Further Reading

Butler, Robert Olen, "Let There Be Shining Mangoes," New York Times Book Review (28 June 1987): 30. (Laudatory assessment of Continent.)

Caso, Frank, Review of The Devil's Larder, by Jim Crace, Booklist 98, no. 4 (15 October 2001): 381. (Praises the stories in The Devil's Larder as complex and imaginative.)

Crowley, John, "Wandering Minstrel," Washington Post Book World (28 May 2000): 6. (Crowley lauds Being Dead, asserting that the book is emotionally touching and filled with inventiveness and surprises.)

Eder, Richard, "Food Stories that Aren't Really about Food at All," New York Times (27 September 2001): E8. (Eder offers a generally favorable assessment of The Devil's Larder.)

Eder, Richard, "The Life after Death of a Pair Not Yet Gone," New York Times (13 April 2000): E11. (Eder offers a positive assessment of Being Dead.)

Kermode, Frank, "Into the Wilderness," New York Times Book Review (12 April 1998): 8. (Kermode offers a positive assessment of Quarantine.)

Leithauser, Brad, "Not Written in Stone," Washington Post Book World (21 May 1989): 3. (Leithauser offers a positive assessment of The Gift of Stones, though he notes shortcomings in the novel's occasional syntactic gaffes, heavy-handed intellectual concerns, and unconvincing female narrator.)

Phillips, Adam, "Eat This Book," New York Times Book Review (21 October 2001): 7. (Phillips offers a positive assessment of The Devil's Larder in which he lauds the teasing and intelligent nature of the stories in the collection. Deems The Devil's Larder an “extraordinary book.”)

Pratt, Carin, "A Storyteller's Splendid Tale of the Stone Age in Transition," Christian Science Monitor (20 June 1989): 13. (Pratt offers a positive assessment of The Gift of Stones.)

Reynolds, Susan Salter, "Discoveries," Los Angeles Times Book Review (14 October 2001): 11. (Describes the role of food in The Devil's Larder.)

Seligman, Craig, "Out of———," Village Voice 32 (30 June 1987): 58-9. (Provides a mixed assessment of Continent, finding the stories to be a bit calculated and detached.)

Sheppard, R. Z., "A Bit of Gospel Shtick," Time (20 April 1998): 77. (Sheppard praises Quarantine for its blending of research into the narrative, smooth writing, and touches of humor.)

Taylor, D. J., "A Light Collation," Spectator (15 September 2001): 39. (Taylor offers a mixed assessment of The Devil's Larder, noting that Crace's originality and “arresting prose” mitigates against the collection's lack of substance.)

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