Richard Powers
Reviews and Writings
:
Operation Wandering Soul


 


HarperCollins Edition

BIOGRAPHY NOVELS ARTICLES REVIEWS INTERVIEWS RESOURCES
 
  • Anonymous, [Review of Operation Wandering Soul]. Kirkus (March 15, 1993). Starred review.
  • Steinberg, Sybil S. "Forecasts: Fiction." Publishers Weekly 240 (April 5, 1993): 63. Review of OWS.
  • "Short List." Mirabella (May, 1993).  Brief review of Operation Wandering Soul.
  • Michaud, Charles. "Book Reviews: Fiction." Library Journal 118 (May 1, 1993): 117. Review of Operation Wandering Soul.
  • Cryer, Dan. "The Storytellers' Mission To Keep Suffering At Bay." Newsday (May 17, 1993).
  • Birkerts, Sven. "Fate of the Innocent." Chicago Tribune (May 23, 1993): Section 14, 1, 10-11. Review of OWS.
  • Schoolman, Martha. "General Fiction: Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers." Booklist 89.19-20 (June 1, 1993): 1788. Review of OWS.
  • Bawer, Bruce. "Beautiful Dreamers." Washington Post Book World 23.24 (June 13, 1993): 2. Review of OWS. Also appears in International Herald Tribune (June 25, 1993): 9.
  • LeClair, Tom. "A Novel That Dares to Be Read." Houston Post (June 18, 1993): C4. Review of OWS.
  • LeClair, Tom. "Exposing the 'Soul' of Lost Children." USA Today (June 25, 1993): D5. Review of OWS.
  • Olson, Jon. "'Wandering Soul' Loses Its Way Although It Begins On Right Track." Milwaukee Journal (July 4, 1993).
  • Lescaze, Lee. "Bookshelf: Man, Past and Present." Wall Street Journal 222.8 (July 13, 1993): A14. Review of OWS.
  • Wolitzer, Meg. "The Assault on Children." New York Times Book Review 142 (July 18, 1993): 19. Review of OWS.
  • Howard, Maureen. "A Fear of Being Without the Books That Must be Read and Reread." Boston Globe (July 18, 1993): B34. Operation Wandering Soul listed among a roundup of recent significant fiction.
  • Copeland, Anna. "We're Losing Childhood, Novelist Warns." Greensboro News and Record (July 19, 1993): F1. Rev. of OWS.
  • Skow, John. "Children's Ward: Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers." Time 142.3 (July 19, 1993): 64-66. Review of OWS.
  • Harris Michael. "Mad Descent into Kids' Apocalypse." Los Angeles Times (August 23, 1993): E2. Review of OWS.
  • Shuman, R. B. "[Review of Operation Wandering Soul]." Choice 31 (September, 1993): 122. Review of OWS. An expanded review by Shuman appears in Magill Book Reviews For Dow Jones News/Retrieval.
  • Easton, Nina J. "L.A. and Other Fictions." Los Angeles Times Magazine (September 5, 1993): 10-32.
  • Moore, Steven. "Book Reviews: Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers." Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.3 (Fall, 1993): 208. Review of OWS.
  • Shuman, R. Baird. "[Review of OWS]" Magill's Literary Annual, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press (1994). pp. 586-589.
  • Lantos, John. "Peter Pan, the Pied Piper, and Pediatrics." Theoretical Medicine 15 (1994): 449-454.
  • Kearns, Cleo McNelly. "The Harrowing Grace of Truthful Fiction: A Review of Richard Power's Operation Wandering Soul." Theology Today 51 (January, 1995): 588-593. Review of Operation Wandering Soul.
  • Knight, Sebastian. "Chattering Class: Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers." New Statesman & Society 8.341 (February 24, 1995): 54. Review of OWS.
  • Nicholson, Geoff. Time Out (London). (March 23, 1996).
  • Lantos, John D. "Stories of Biology and Medicine: the Novels of Richard Powers." Hastings Center Report 26.3 (May, 1996-June 30, 1996): 17-20.
  • Lindner, April. "Narrative As Necessary Evil in Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul." Critique 38 (Fall, 1996): 68-79.
  • Pancake, Ann. "'The Wheel's Worst Illusion': The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul." Review of Contemporary Fiction 18.3 (Fall 1998): 72-83.
  • Poirier, Suzanne. "Operation Wanding Soul." Literature, Arts and Medicine Database 37th edition. October 1999. Annotation/review of OWS.
  • Otterspeer, Willem. "Zonder Benen Dansend." NRC Handelsbrald. Date unknown.

Edition bibliography for Operation Wandering Soul

 

BIOGRAPHY NOVELS ARTICLES REVIEWS INTERVIEWS RESOURCES

 

By David G. Dodd

Copyright 1997-2002 David Dodd.
This is a work in progress.
Any additions, corrections, etc. are more than welcome. Email David Dodd at david.g.dodd at gmail dot com

Last updated: 12/14/2006