Articles, Essays, Reviews

Alan Ansen

• "Anyone Who Can Pick Up a Frying Pan Owns Death."  Big Table 2 (Summer 1959):  32-41.

David Ayers

• "The Long Last Goodbye:  Control and Resistance in the Work of William Burroughs."  Journal of American Studies 27 (August 1993): 223-36.

Douglas Baldwin

• "'Word Begets Image and Image is Virus':  Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs."  College Literature 1 (Winter 2000): 63-83.

Michael Bliss

• "The Orchestration of Chaos:  Verbal Technique in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch."  Enclitic 1 (1977):  59-69.

Jeff Bryan

• "William Burroughs and His Faith in X."  West Virginia University Philogical Papers 32 (1986-7): 79-89.

Francois Bucher

• "Burroughs's Tree."  The Review of Contemporary Literature 4 (Spring 1984):  131-134.

Anthony Burgess

• "Yards and Yards of Entrails."  Observer 13 (February 1966):  27.

Clive Bush

• "An Anarchy of New Speech:  Notes on the American Tradition of William Burroughs."  Journal of Beckett Studies 6 (1980): 120-8.

C. Carr

• "Hollow Man."  Voice Literary Supplement (October 1986): 20-22.

John Ciardi

• "The Book Burners and Sweet Sixteen."  Saturday Review 27 (June 1959): 22, 30.

Gerard Cordess

• "The Science-Fiction of William Burroughs."  Caliban 12 (1975):  33-43.

John Didion

• "Wired for Shock Treatment."  Book Week 27 (March 1966): 2-3.

Edward Dorn

• "Notes More of Less Relevant to Burroughs and Trocchi."  Kulchur 7 (1962): 3-22.

Jonathan Eburne

• "Trafficking in the Void:  Burroughs, Kerouac, and the Consumption of Otherness."  Modern Fiction Studies 43 (Spring 1997): 53-92.

Barbara Estrin

• "The Revelatory Connection:  Inspired Poetry and Naked Lunch."  The Review of Contemporary Fiction 4 (Spring 1984): 58-64.

Leslie Fiedler

• "The New Mutants."  Partisan Review 32 (1965): 505-25.

Anne Friedberg

• "'Cut-Ups':  A Synema of the Text."  Downtown Review 1.1 (1979): 3-5.

Laszlo Gefin

• "Collage, Theory, Reception, and the Cutups of William Burroughs."  Literature and the Other Arts:  Perspectives on Contemporary Literature 13 (1987): 91-100.

David Glover

• "Burroughs' Western."  Over Here:  An American Studies Journal 6.2 (1986): 14-23.

Herbert Gold

• "Instead of Love, the Fix."  New York Times Book Review.  (25 November 1962): 4, 69.

Oliver Harris

• "Can You See a Virus?  The Queer Cold War of William Burroughs."  Journal of American Studies 22 (August 1999): 243-66.

Ihab Hassan

• "The Literature of Silence:  From Henry Miller to Beckett and Burroughs."  Encounter 28 (January 1967):  74-82.

• "The Novel of Outrage:  A Minority Voice in Postwar American Fiction."  American Scholar 34 (Spring 1965):  239-53.

• "The Subtracting Machine:  The Work of William S. Burroughs."  Critique 6 (Spring 1963):  4-23.

Anthony Channell Hilfer

• "Mariner and Wedding Guest in William Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch.'"  Criticism 22 (1980):  252-65.

Kathryn Hume

• "Books of the Dead:  Postmortem Politics in Novels by Mailer, Burroughs, Acker, and Pynchon."  Modern Philology:  A Journal Devoted to Research in Medieval and Modern Literature 3 (February 2000): 417-44.

• "William S. Burroughs's Phantasmic Geography."  Contemporary Literature 40 (Spring 1999): 111-35.

Allan Johnston

• "The Burroughs Biopathy:  William S. Burrough's Junky and Naked Lunch and Reichian Theory."  The Review of Contemporary Fiction 4 (Spring 1984): 107-120.

Alfred Kazin

• "He's Just Wild About Writing."  New York Times Book Review (12 December 1971): 4, 22.

Richard Kostelanetz

• From Nightmare to Serendipity:  A Retrospective Look at William Burroughs."  Twentieth Century Literature 11 (October 1965):  123-30.

Rob Latham

• "Collage as Critique and Invention in the Fiction of William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker."  Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 5 (1993): 46-57.

Michael Leddy

• "'Departed have Left No Address':  Revelation/Concealment Presence/Absence in Naked Lunch."  Review of Contemporary Fiction 4.1 (1984): 33-39.

Robert A. Lee

• "William Burroughs and the Sexuality of Power."  Twentieth Century Studies 2 (November 1969):  74-88.

Ron Loewinsohn

• "'Gentle Reader, I Fain Would Spare You Thins, But My Pen Hath Its Will Like the Ancient Mariner':  Narrator(s) and Audience in William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch."  Contemporary Literature 39 (Winter 1998): 560-85.

Carol Loranger

• "'This Book Spill Off the Page in All Direction':  What is the Text of Naked Lunch."  Postmodern Culture:  An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism 10 (September 1999): 24.

Robin Lydenberg

• "Cut-Up:  Negative Poetics in William Burroughs and Roland Barthes."  Comparative Literature Studies 15 (December 1978):  414-30.

• "'El Hombre Invisible.'"  Nation 19 (March 1988):  387-89.

• "Beyond Good and Evil:  'how-To' Read Naked Lunch."  The Review of Contemporary Fiction 4 (Spring 1984): 75-85.

Thomas Main

• "On Naked Lunch and Just Desserts."  Chicago Review 33 (Winter 1983): 81-83.

Irving Malin

• "Flashes of Schultz."  The Review of Contemporary Fiction 4 (Spring 1984): 55-58.

Donatella Manganotti

• "The Final Fix."  Kulchur 4 (Autumn 1964):  76-87.

Mary McCarthy

• "Burroughs' Naked Lunch."  New York Review of Books 1.1 (1963): 4-5.

Andrew McClure

• "The Word, Image, and Addiction:  Language and the Junk Equation in William S. Burrough's Naked Lunch."  Dionysos:  The Literature and Addiction TriQuarterly 6 (Summer 1996): 6-19.

Frank McConnell

• "William Burroughs and the Literature of Addiction."  Massachusetts Review 8 (1967):  665-80.

Marshall McLuhan

• "Notes on Burroughs."  Nation 28 (December 1964):  517-19.

Joseph McNicholas

• "William S. Burroughs and Corporate Public Relations."  Arizona Quarterly:  A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 4 (Winter 2001): 121-49.

Robert Mertz

• "The Virus Visions of William Burroughs."  Itinerary 3:  Criticism.  (1977):  11-18.

Adam Meyer

• "'One of the Great Early Counselors':  The Influence of Franz Kafka on William S. Burroughs."  Comparative Literature Studies 27 (1990): 211-29.

Peter Michelson

• "Beardsley, Burroughs, Decadence, and the Poetics of Obscenity."  Tri-Quarterly 12 (Spring 1968):  139-55.

Erik Mortenson

• "Xmas Junkies:  Debasement and Redemption in the Work of William S. Burroughs and David Foster Wallace."  Dionysos:  The Literature and Addiction TriQuarterly 9 (Summer 1999): 37-46.

Timothy Murphy

• "Intersection Points:  Teaching William Burroughs's Naked Lunch."  College Literature 1 (Winter 2000): 84-102.

• "William Burroughs Between Indifference and Revalorization:  Notes Toward a Political Reading."  Angelaki 1 (1993): 113-24.

Neal Oxenhandler

• "Listening to Burroughs' Voice."  Surface Fiction Now . . . and Tomorrow (1975): 181-201.

Jeffrey Nealon

• "'Junk' and the Other:  Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs."  Postmodern Culture:  An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism 6 (September 1995): 39.

Donald Palumbo

• "William Burroughs' Quartet of Science Fiction Novels as Dystopian Social Satire."  Extrapolation 20 (1979):  321-29.

R. G. Peterson

• "A Picture is a Fact:  Wittgenstein and The Naked Lunch."  Twentieth Century Literature 12 (July 1966):  78-86.

William Phillips

• "The New Immoralists."  Commentary 39 (1965): 66-69.

Jurgen Ploog

• "A Burroughs Primer."  Review of Contemporary Fiction 4 (Spring 1984): 135-140.

Wayne Pounds

• "The Postmodern Anus:  Parody and Utopia in Two Recent Novels by William Burroughs."  Poetics Today 8.3-4 (1987): 611-29.

Daniel Punday

• "Narrative After Deconstruction:  Structure and the negative Poetics of William Burroughs's Cities of the Red Night."  Style 29 (Spring 1995): 36-57.

Barbara Rose

• "Cultural Paranoia, Conspiracy Plots, and the American Ideology:  William Burroughs's Cities of the Red Night."  Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Americaines 29 (1999): 89-111.

Hugh Rozelle

• "Reverse Metamorphosis and Mayan Ritual in William S. Burroughs' The Soft Machine."  Notes on Contemporary Literature 29 (January 1999): 4-6.

Charles Russell

• "Individual Voice in the Collective Discourse:  Literary Innovation in Postmodern American Fiction."  Sub-stance:  A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism 27 (1980):  29-39.

Michael Skau

• "The Central Verbal System:  The Prose of William Burroughs."  Style 15 (1981):  401-14.

Steven Shaviro

• "Burroughs' Theater of Illusion:  Cities of the Red Night."  Review of Contemporary Fiction 4.1 (1984): 64-74.

Jennie Skerl

• "William S. Burroughs:  Pop Artist."  Sphinx 11 (1980): 1-15.

• "Freedom Through Fantasy in the Recent Novels of William S. Burroughs."  Review of Contemporary Fiction 4.1 (1984): 124-30.

Theodore Solotaroff

• "The Algebra of Need."  New Republic 5 (August 1967): 29-34.

Terry Southern

• "Rolling Over Our Nerve-Endings."  Book Week 8 (November 1964): 5, 31.

Gregory Stephenson

• "The Gnostic Vision of William S. Burroughs."  The Review of Contemporary Fiction 4 (Spring 1984): 40-49.

Catherine Stimpson

• "The Beat Generation and the Trials of Homosexual Liberation."  Salmaguni 58-59 (1982-83): 373-92.

William Stull

• "The Quest and the Question:  Cosmology and Myth in the Work of William S. Burroughs., 1953-60."  Twentieth Century Literature 24 (Summer 1978): 225-42.

James Tanner

• "Experimental Styles Compared:  E. E. Cummins and William Burroughs."  Style 10 (1976): 1-27.

Tony Tanner

• "The New Demonology."  Partisan Review 33 (1966): 547-572.

John Vernon

• "William S. Burroughs."  The Iowa Review 3 (1972): 107-23.

John Wain

• "The Great Burroughs Affair."  New Republic 1 (December 1962): 21-23. 

Geoff Ward

• "William Burroughs:  A Literary Outlaw?"  The Cambridge Quarterly 22 (1993): 339-54.

John Watters

• "The Control Machine:  Myth in the Soft Machine of W. S. Burroughs."  Connotations:  A Journal for Critical Debate 5 (1995-6): 284-303.

Regina Weinreich

• "Dynamic Deja Vu of William Burroughs."  Review of Contemporary Fiction 4.1 (1984): 55-58.

Arnold Weinstein

• "Freedom and Control in the Erotic Novel:  The Classical Liaisons dangereuses Versus the Surrealist Naked Lunch."  Dad/Surrealism 10/11 (1982): 29-38.

Ronald Weston

• "William Burroughs, High Priest of Hipsterism."  Fact 2 (1965): 11-17.

Steven Whitaker

• "Burroughs and De Quincey:  Two Tasters of 'The Divine Luxuries.'"  Dionysos:  The Literature and Addiction TriQuarerly 4 (Winter 1993): 9-11.

Brent Wood

• "William S. Burroughs and the Language of Cyberpunk."  Science-Fiction Studies 23 (March 1996): 11-26.

Nicholas Zurbrugg

• "Burroughs, Barthes, and the Limits of Intertexuality."  Review of Contemporary Fiction 4.1 (1984): 86-107.

Note:  The Spring 1984 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction is dedicated solely to Burroughs.