Contemporary British Authors, Works, Projects |
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Peter Ackroyd |
Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Peter Ackroyd, Postmodernist Play and Chatterton" (1992) |
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Martin Amis |
Criticism |
James Diedrick (Albion C.), "Notes from the Urban Underground: Money" (from Understanding Martin Amis, Chap. 3) |
Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach) |
"Narrative and Narrated Homicide in Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields" -1995 |
"What's Amis in Contemporary British Fiction? Martin Amis's Money and Time's Arrow" -1995 |
Interviews |
Alexander Laurence and Kathleen McGee, "No More Illusions: Martin Amis is Getting Old and Wants to Talk About It" (interview) (The Write Stuff) |
Will Self, An Interview with Martin Amis |
Martin Amis Page (Bohemian Ink) |
Martin Amis Page (Bradley Shoop and Alice O'Dea) |
The Martin Amis Web (James Diedrick, Albion C.) |
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J.G. Ballard |
General Resources |
Crash Movie (Official Site) (Fine Line Features) |
The Electronic Labyrinth: J.G. Ballard (The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U. Virginia) |
J.G. Ballard Page (Craig Sauer, Simon's Rock C.) |
J.G. Ballard (bibliography) (Alpha Ralpha Boulevard) |
www.jgballard.com (Spike Magazine - unofficial site with discussion forum and good list of links) |
"No False Prophet": J.G. Ballard in Profile (The Good Book Guide) (Brief bio and partial bibliography of novels) |
Interviews |
Lukas Barr, "Don't Crash Psychosis, Euthanasia, Apocalypse and Other Fun Ideas: An Interview with J.G. Ballard" (1995) (KGB Media, Inc.) |
Evans, Gareth Interview with Ballard and Review of the Collected Short Stories (Independent Newspaper, UK) |
Hoffman, Martin 45-minute Streaming Video Interview following publication of Empire of The Sun (The Roland Collection of Films and Videos on Art: A great resource with over 300 hours of streaming video available for free viewing) |
Sturton, Edward Streaming Audio Interview on the "English Identity Crisis" (08/2001) (BBC Radio 4 - Today Program (see link to audio under "Search Results" on the right-hand side)) |
Sutcliffe, Thomas The Shopping Mall Psychopath: Interview (Independent Newspaper, UK) |
Sutherland, John "Scanning the Empty Road with Binoculars": (The Good Book Guide) |
Primary Texts |
Ballard, J.G. Super-Cannes - First Chapter (Guardian Unlimited) |
Ballard, J.G. "What I Believe" |
Reviews |
Lalumiere, Claude Review of Super-Cannes (January Magazine) |
McGucken, Dennis M. (Millsaps College) Review of Brigg's J.G. Ballard (Science Fiction Studies #51: Volume 17, Part 2, July 1990 (middle of page)) |
Moss, Stephen Review of Super-Cannes, and the trouble with fiction reviewing (Guardian Unlimited) |
Index of NYT Reviews of Ballard's work (New York Times) |
Ruddick, Nicholas Review of Luckhurst's The Angle Between Two Walls (Science Fiction Studies #73: Volume 24, Part 3, November, 1997) |
Rugoff, Ralph Review of Super-Cannes (LA Weekly) |
Wagar, W. Warren (SUNY Binghamton) Review of Stephenson's Out of the Night and Into the Dream (Science Fiction Studies #57: Volume 19, Part 2, July 1992 (scroll to middle of page) |
Wolfe, Gary K. (Roosevelt University) Review of Pringle's J. G. Ballard: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Science Fiction Studies #35: Volume 12, Part 1, March, 1985 (middle of page)) |
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Julian Barnes |
Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Fictionalizing the Factual: Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" (1999) |
Julian Barnes Page (Bohemian Ink) |
Julian Barnes Web (Ryan Roberts, Knox C.) |
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Anita Brookner |
Anne Marie Van Amelsvoort, U. of Winnipeg), "A Testimony of Voice" (essay on Brookner's Hotel du Lac) |
Anna Ericson, "Love and Marriage in the Novels of Anita Brookner and Fay Weldon" |
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A. S. Byatt |
A. S. Byatt Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.) |
Salon Interview |
David Calvert "The Bookfinder" (story on the Midnight Graffiti e-zine) |
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Angela Carter |
Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Tall Tales and Brief Lives: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus" (1998) |
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Caryl Churchill |
Scarlett Bowen (U. Texas, Austin), "Caryl Churchill: Post-Modern Dramatist" |
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Ted Hughes |
"The Song" (Bel Canto) |
Ted Hughes Pages (Claas Kazzer) |
"Wind" and "Thistles" (Steve Spanoudis) |
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Kazuo Ishiguro |
Kazuo Ishiguro Page (George P. Landow) |
Criticism |
Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Figuring the Real" Ishiguro's When We Were Orphas" (2001) |
Jane Gardam Page (George P. Landow / Postcolonial Web) |
Jon Silkin Page (includes bibliography) (David Latane, Virginia Commonwealth U.) |
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Philip Larkin |
"Days" (Gareth McCaughan) |
"Home is So Sad" (Gareth McCaughan) |
The Philip Larkin Society |
"This Be The Verse" |
"Toads Revisited" (Gareth McCaughan) |
"Vers de Societe" |
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Doris Lessing |
Jason Castellucci , "The Confinement of Marriage in the Short Fiction of Doris Lessing and Edith Warton" |
Doris Lessing: A Retrospective (bio and well-organized, detailed, annotated hypertext bibliography) (Jan Hanford) |
Interview from The Edmonton Journal |
Margaret O'Beirne's Page |
Penelope Lively Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.) |
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Salman Rushdie |
Banned Books - Salman Rushdie (with a chronology of Satanic Verses and an audio track) |
Criticism |
Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Demonizing Discourse in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses" (1998) |
Anthony R. Guneratne, "The Virtual Spaces of Postcoloniality: Rushdie, Ondaatje, Naipaul, Bakhtin and the Others" (1997) |
M. Brent Sleeper (Carleton C.), "Satanic Verses and Last Temptations: Modern Parables of Sacredness & Profanity" |
Interviews |
Salon Features: Salman Rushdie (interview with pictures) |
The Moor's Last Sigh (promotional site for the novel that includes excerpts, excerpts from Rushdie's previous work, a forum, a bio, and other info; requires graphical browser) (Random House, Inc.) |
Salman Rushdie Page (George P. Landow, Postcolonial Web) |
Salman Rushdie Page (very extensive page, with annotated bibliography and links to numerous related web resources) |
Salman Rushdie Page (Bohemian Ink) |
Statement by the Rushdie Defense Committee (Paul Auster and Don DeLillo) |
Seamus Heaney |
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Will Self |
Criticism |
Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "The Sweet Smell of Excess: Will Self, Bataille and Transgression" (1999) |
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Zadie Smith |
Kathleen O'Grady (Concordia U.), "White Teeth: A Conversation with Author Zadie Smith" (2002) (Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal) |
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Graham Swift |
George P. Landow (Brown U.), |
Graham Swift Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.) |
Timothy Mo Page (George P. Landow, Brown U.) |
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Fay Weldon |
Anna Ericson, "Love and Marriage in the Novels of Anita Brookner and Fay Weldon" |
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Jeanette Winterson |
Jeanette Winterson Site (Anna Troberg) |
The Unofficial Jeanette Winterson Page (Alexander Evans) |
Criticism |
Brian Finney (California State U., Long Beach), "Bonded by Language: Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body" (2000) |
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