Morton, Donald E. Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1974. This survey traces the chronological development of Nabokov's novels as they become increasingly difficult and private expressions of the author's own personal beliefs.

Lee, Grace Farrell. From Exile to Redemption: The Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. This study focuses on the various dimensions of exile (demonic, mythic, historical, personal) in Singer and concludes with a chapter on redemption, which in Singer, "is personal rather than communal and secular rather than religious." Includes a discussion of Gimpel and the Kabbalic influence on the story.

Malin, Irving, ed. Critical Views of Isaac Bashevis Singer. New York: New York UP, 1969. Collection of essays.

Czarnecka, Ewa and Aleksander Fiut. Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz. Trans. Richard Lourie. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. A collection of interviews in which Milosz discusses his poetry, childhood, schooling, life between the Wars, World War II, his "philosophical preferences," and more. Conveniently organized by topic.

Davie, Donald. Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1986. Davie argues that Milosz work is too ambitious for the lyric form. Milosz's writing represents an unusually compelling record of what is involved for a European in making himself American. Yet his poetry is also influenced deeply by his experiences under totalitarian regimes.

Friedrich, Marianne M. Character and Narration in the Short Fiction of Saul Bellow. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. This study of the short fiction focuses on the diversity of characters, narrative strategies, and his commitment to mimesis, which, in his latest fiction, Bellows modifies into parable, romance, fairytale, and myth. Includes a chapter on "A Silver Dish" and an extensive bibliography.

Marten, Harry. Understanding Denise Levertov. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1988. An introductory study that traces the development of Levertov and discusses, however briefly, many poems. Includes an annotated bibliography.

Packard, William, ed. The Craft of Poetry. Garden City: Doubleday, 1974. 79-100. A revealing interview with Levertov.

Rodgers, Audrey T. Denise Levertov: The Poetry of Engagement. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1993. This study is largely concerned with Levertov's social consciousness – her activist stance against war, violence, inhumanity, the nuclear threat, and the environmental crisis. Although Levertov's early poetry has been celebrated for its lyrical quality, her social consciousness is at least hinted at in even her earliest poems.

Weigl, Bruce. Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996. A collection of essays and reviews, including excerpts from Simic's notebooks and an interview with Simic.

Polukhina, Valentina. Joseph Brodsky: A Poet for Our Time. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. This book attempts to identify the principles of organization of Brodsky's poems by discussing his technical resources: the system of his tropes, his use of vocabulary and syntax; what makes them aesthetically unified. The emphasis is on Brodsky's language, since his poetry is as much linguistically as philosophically orientated.

Weldon, Tony. "A Ramble on Joseph Brodsky." Salmagundi97 (1993): 56-68. Although Weldon prefers Brodsky's essays (which for Weldon demonstrate "a sensitivity and introspection, a humaneness") over his poetry (often obscure and emotionaldistant), the essay nevertheless offers insightful comments on Brodsky's verse.

Iftekharuddin, Farhat, et al., eds. "An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee." Speaking of the Short Story: Interviews with Contemporary Writers. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 1997: 189-98. A revealing interview in which Mukherjee comments on "The Management of Grief," her influences, her creative process, and her love for America.

Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Bharati Mukherjee: Critical Perspectives. New York: Garland, 1993. A collection of essays.

Hart, Patricia. Narrative Magic in the Fiction of Isabel Allende. Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 1989. The first full-length study of Allende's work that traces her development and narrative adventurousness.

Iftekharuddin, Farhat, et al., eds. "An Interview with Isabel Allende." Speaking of the Short Story: Interviews with Contemporary Writers. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 1997: 3-14. Informative interview in which Allende discusses narrative voice, writing short stories versus the novels, writing as a journalist versus writing as an artist, sources of inspiration, the short story as genre, and "And of Clay Are We Created."

Jehenson, Myriam Yvonne. Latin-American Women Writers: Class, Race, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York P, 1995. A feminist critique of Allende that finds her first and foremost a "storyteller," with a tendency to be melodramatic. "Her characters are the 'stuff' of romance. Even in the midst of political horror, the characters construct their interpretations to soap operas and popular song."

Isabel Allende: The Women's Voice in Latin-American Literature. Distributed by Films for the Humanities & Sciences. 1993. 56 min.

Simmons, Diane. Jamaica Kincaid. New York: Twayne, 1994. Simmons believes that "Kincaid's work is about loss, an all but unbearable fall from a paradise partially remembered, partially dreamed, a state of wholeness, in which things are unchangeably themselves and division is unknown." Simmons also addresses the theme of betrayal in Kincaid's work. Includes biographical background and bibliography.