1. A Cool Million and Other Recent Works of Fiction. Fred T. Marsh. The New York Times Book Review. p6. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 14.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. p6. From Literature Resource Center.

2. Nathanael West's Indian Commodities. Rachel Rubinstein. Shofar 23.4 (2005): p98-120. Rpt. inShort Story Criticism. Vol. 116.  Detroit: Gale, p98-120. From Literature Resource Center.

3. Nathanael West: A Jewish Satirist in Spite of Himself. Daniel Walden Critical Essays on Nathanael West. Ed. Ben Siegel. New York: G. K. Hall, 1994. p213-223. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Vol. 116.  Detroit: Gale, p213-223. From Literature Resource Center.

4. Signification, Movement, and Resistance in the Novels of Nathanael West. Phillip Brian Harper.Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. p30-54. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Vol. 116.  Detroit: Gale, p30-54. From Literature Resource Center.

5. Nathanael West: 'Gloriously Funny.'. Michael Dunne. Calvinist Humor in American Literature.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. p145-161. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Vol. 116.  Detroit: Gale, p145-161. From Literature Resource Center.

6. The Fiction of Nathanael West: No Redeemer, No Promised Land. Randall Reid. The University of Chicago Press, 1967. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 14.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1984.  From Literature Resource Center.

7. Nathanael West. Daniel Walden. American Novelists, 1910-1945. Ed. James J. Martine.  Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 9. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981.  From Literature Resource Center.

8. A Picaresque Apprenticeship: Nathanael West's "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" and "A Cool Million" David D. Galloway. Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 5, No. 2, Books & Writers of the 1920's & 1930's (Summer, 1964), pp. 110-126

9. Violence, Dreams, and Dostoevsky: The Art of Nathanael West. James F. Light. College English, Vol. 19, No. 5 (Feb., 1958), pp. 208-213

10. Nathanael West: Prophet of FailureM. A. Klug College Literature, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1987), pp. 17-31