Further Reading
- Coiner, Constance. "Literature of Resistance: The Intersection of Feminism and the Communist Left in Meridel Le Sueur and Tillie Olsen." Radical Revisions: Rereading the 1930s Culture, edited by Bill Mullen and Sherry Lee Linkon, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996, pp. 144-66. (Places Le Sueur's and Olsen's work against the backdrop of Leftist culture in the 1930s.)
- Connelly, Julia E. "The Whole Story." Literature and Medicine 9 (1990): 150-61. (Explores the roles of patient and physician in Olsen's "Tell Me a Riddle" and Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyitch.")
- Neihus, Edward L. "Polar Stars, Pyramids, and 'Tell Me A Riddle.'" American Notes and Querries XXIV, Nos. 5-6 (January-February 1986): 77-83. (Explains the significance of the reference to pyramids and pole stars in "Tell Me a Riddle.")
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