Richard Wright : critical perspectives past and present / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah.

Wright's craft : the short stories / Edward Margolies
Lawd today : Wright's tricky apprenticeship / William Burrison
How Native son was born / Keneth Kinnamon
Uncovering the magical disguise of language : the narrative presence in Richard Wright's Native son / Laura E. Tanner - - The re(a)d and the black / Barbara Johnson
Celebrity as identity : Native son and mass culture / Ross Pudaloff
The figurative web of Native son / Joyce Anne Joyce
The politics of poetics : ideology and narrative form in An American tragedy and Native son / Barbara Foley
On knowing our place / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Literacy and ascent : Black boy / Robert Stepto
Sociology of an existence : Wright and the Chicago school / Carla Cappetti
The metamorphosis of Black boy / Janice Thaddeus
Negating the negation : the construction of Richard Wright / Abdul R. Janmohamed
"I do believe him though I know he lies" : lying as genre and metaphor in Black boy / Timothy Dow Adams
The horror and the glory : Wright's portrait of the Artist in Black boy and American hunger / Horace A. Porter.

"Arise, ye pris'ners of starvation" : Richard Wright's Black boy and American hunger / Herberl Leibowitz
Wright's American hunger / Dan McCall
Christian æxistentialism in The outsider / Claudia C. Tate
Drama and denial in The outsider / Mae Henderson
Richard Wright and the art of non-fiction : stepping out on the stage of the world / John M. Reilly
Sexual initiation and survival in The long dream / Earle V. Bryant
Alienation and creativity in the fiction of Richard Wright / Valerie Smith.