Reviews and critical articles on the works of Brian Castro, by novel

This section is designed to be a resource for researchers interested in a specific Brian Castro novel. It lists reviews and critical articles that relate principally to the one novel; it does not include reviews and articles that discuss several works, or deal with Brian Castro's work in general – these general articles are listed in the omnibus section, 'References', below.



Birds of Passage

Burns, Graham ‘Travelling Birds’, Australian Book Review, No. 60, May 1984, pp. 17-18
Creech, Nick ‘Winging Towards Elusive Heights’, Australian Weekend Magazine, 20-21 August 1983, p. 15
Delamotte, Jean-Paul ‘A la passée’, Magazine Litteraire, October 1988, p. 84 [French review]
Delamotte, Jean-Paul ‘Intolérance aux antipodes’, Le Monde, 23 December 1988 [French review]
Gould, Alan ‘A prize in doubt’, Age, 17 September 1983, Saturday Extra, p. 15
Jose, Nicholas ‘Dead Jumbuck’, Age Monthly Review, January 1984, pp. 19-20
Kellaway, Frank ‘Distinguished Fiction’, Overland, No. 93, December 1983, pp. 65-66
Poirier, François Untitled review, Art Press, 30 October 1988 (France), p. 60 [French review]
Pons, Xavier ‘Impossible Coincidences: Narrative Strategy in Brian Castro’s Birds of Passage’, Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, October 1990, pp. 464-475
Sen, Veronica ‘Story of Alienation Stirs and Engages’, Canberra Times, 4 June 1989, p. 18
Thomas, Mark ‘Serious and Impressive But Disjointed Novel’, Canberra Times, 8 October 1983, p. 19
Yu, Ouyang ‘Brian Castro: The Other Representing the Other’, Literary Criterion, Vol. 30, Nos. 1 & 2, 1995, pp. 30-48

Brief notices

Anon. ‘Bumper Year for Award’, Weekend Australian (Magazine), 4-5 December 1982, p. 12
Clancy, Laurie Fiction – Re-issues (column) Australian Book Review, No. 68, 1985, p. 35
McLaren, John Untitled review, The Good Reading Guide, compiled by Helen Daniel, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1989, pp. 42-43
Wright, Viki ‘Puzzles for the Smart Set – Paperbacks worth having’, Weekend Australian, 8-9 September 1984, Magazine p. 14



Pomeroy

Anon. ‘A Sensitive Assignment’, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Vol. 69, No. 1001, February 1990, p. 36
Brissenden, R.F. ‘Dangerous Investigations’, Editions, No. 8-9, September 1990, pp. 7-8
England, Katharine ‘Plotting 6, a Quarterly Account of Recent Fiction’, Overland, No. 120, Spring 1990, p. 45-50
England, Katharine ‘A Post-Modern Thriller and Some Loud Laughter’, Advertiser, 3 March 1990, p. 17
Fuller, Peter ‘Pomeroy Will Not Be Bettered’, Canberra Times, 10 March 1990, p. B4
Fuller, Peter ‘Reality Offers Chance to Reproduce It In Writing’, Canberra Times, 7 March 1990, p. 32
Halligan, Marion ‘Long on Metaphor, Short on Craft and Meaning ...’, Weekend Australian, 26-27 May 1990, p. rev 5
Hutchings, Peter ‘Disconnections and Misdirections’, Adelaide Review, No. 74, March 1990, p. 20
Hutchings, Peter ‘Disconnections and Misdirections’, Sydney Review, No. 23, April 1990, pp. 18-19
Kenneally, Catherine ‘Compelled to connect’, Australian Book Review, No. 118, 1990, pp. 15-16
Nelson, Penelope ‘Deep Sleep – a Nightmare, No Less’, Weekend Australian, 17-18 August 1991, Review p. 5
Wearne, Alan ‘Childhood Outshines Adult Plot’, Melbourne Sunday Herald, 25 February 1990, p. 38


Double-Wolf

Campbell, Marion ‘Double Writing/Bracketing Women’, Overland, No. 125, Summer 1991, pp. 87-88
Daniel, Helen ‘Plotting 8, an Account of Some Recent Australian Fiction: a Moment in the Sensible Flow’, Overland, No. 126, Autumn 1992, pp. 67-73
Daniel, Helen ‘Grand Arabesque Through Time’, Age Saturday Extra, 22 June 1991, p. 8
Dudley, Michael ‘Apologia Pro Vita Nostra: Critics and Psychiatrists’, in Harry Heseltine (ed.) Literature and Psychiatry: Bridging the Divide, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, 1992, pp. 67-98
Fuller, Peter ‘Freud’s Wolf’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1991, p. 41
Fuller, Peter ‘Wolves Howling at the Doors of Perception’, Canberra Times, 13 July 1991, p. C8
Grixti, Joe Untitled Review, Imago, Vol. 5, No. 2, August 1993, pp. 92-94
Johnson, Rob ‘A Reappraisal of the Wolf-Man’s Dreams’, Advertiser, 29 June 1991, p. 12
Jose, Nicholas ‘Reworking “The Wolf Man” ’, Voices, Vol. 1, No. 4, Summer (1991-1992) 1991, pp. 97-99
Kosky, Robert ‘Desires that Don’t Lie Down’, Editions 12, Spring 1991, pp. 24-25
McLaren, John ‘A Howler’, Australian Book Review, No. 132, July 1991, pp. 38-40
Melhem, Moha ‘Who’s Afreud …’, Australian Left Review, No. 131, August 1991, p. 46
Messer, Jane Australian Bookseller & Publisher, April 1991, p. 22
O’Loghlin, Libby ‘Castro Complex’, Redoubt, No. 21, 1995, pp. 113-115
Pierce, Peter ‘Katoomba the Missing Link’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1991, p. 41
Riemer, A.P. 'Castro’s Worlds', Independent Monthly, 1993, Vol. 4, No. 7, February pp. 27-28 [Also reviews Castro’s first four novels]
Salusinszky, Imre ‘The Unconscious—and the Maddeningly Self-Conscious’, Weekend Australian, 10-11 August 1991, Review p. 4
Tacey, David ‘Freud, Fiction and the Australian Mind’, Island Magazine, No. 49, Summer 1991, pp. 8-13
Walton, Sue ‘Rubbing in Freud’s Analyses’, Newcastle Herald, 28 September 1991, p. 12

Brief notices

Anon. Biography of Patrick White Wins ‘Age’ Book of the Year Award Age, 7 December 1991, p. 3

After China
Coad, David Untitled Review, World Literature Today, Vol. 67, No. 3, Summer 1993, p. 667
Craven, Peter ‘Double Delights’, Sunday Age (Agenda), 12 September 1993, p. 8
Daniel, Helen E. ‘Breaking Conventions: a Double-Folding Fan’, Australian Book Review, No. 142, July 1992, pp. 4-6
England, Katharine ‘Brilliant, Erotic Balance of Affair Consummated in Stories’, Advertiser Magazine, 17 October 1992, p. 6
Fuller, Peter ‘Groping Around in the Text’, Canberra Times, 10 October 1992, p. C9
Geason, Susan ‘In the China Hotel’, Sun-Herald, 6 September 1992, p. 118
Gilbey, David ‘When Hsiu Means Shu’, Australian Book Review, No. 142, July 1992, pp. 6-7
Grixti, Joe Untitled Review, Imago, Vol. 5, No. 2, August 1993, pp. 92-94
Gunn, Michelle ‘Novelist’s second win proves a literary first’, Australian, 13 September 1991, p. 3
Jose, Nicholas ‘About Books: China Matters’, National Library of Australia News, Vol. 2 No. 12, September 1992, pp. 8-10
Liang, Fen ‘Brian Castro’s After China—A Translation into Mandarin and a Study of the Novel’s Linguistic and Social Contexts in Australia and China’, unpublished PhD, Thesis, University of Western Australia, 1997
Liang, Fen ‘Castro’s After China in China,’ Otherland, No. 7
Messer, Jane ‘After “Double Wolf”’, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Vol. 711, No. 1026, May 1992, p. 22
Pierce, Peter ‘Uprooting a Life’, Bulletin, Vol. 114, No. 5830, 28 July 1992, p. 91
Sharkey, Michael ‘Half this Tale’s in the Telling’, Weekend Australian, 22-23 August 1992, Review p. 7
Shaw, Janice ‘Intriguing Search for Sexuality’, Newcastle Herald, 14 November 1992, p. 4
Sorensen, Rosemary ‘Women in Water’, Meanjin, Vol. 52, No. 4, Summer 1993, pp. 778-783
Sorensen, Rosemary ‘Yearning for Diversion’, Australian Book Review, No. 142, July 1992, p. 8-9

Brief notices

Anderson, Don ‘Premier's Awards a Constant, Too’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1993, p. 15
Carbines, Louise Literary Award for Bligh’s Language, Age, 13 September 1993, p. 6
Craven, Peter Premier Contenders Line Up in the Literary Stakes Sunday Age (Agenda), 5 September 1993, p. 9
Hefner, Robert [‘Lit Bits’] Canberra Times, 19 September 1993, p. 26

Drift
Barker, Karen ‘The Milk of Mother’s Kindness in Brian Castro’s Drift’, in Sharyn Pearce and Philip Nielsen (eds), Current Tensions: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference, 6–11 July 1996, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Brisbane, pp. 228-235.
Barlow, Damien ‘Authenticity/Hybridity and Pallawah Identities in Castro’s Drift’, Southerly, Vol. 58, No. 2, Winter 1998,
pp. 59-66
Brennan, Bernadette Documents: Absence and Negativity Conference Papers: Drift: Writing and/of Annihilation, Southerly, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2000, pp. 39–50
Clarke, Sally ‘Drift’, Redoubt, Vol. 22, June 1996, pp. 137-139
Coad, David Untitled review, World Literature Today, Vol. 69, No. 3, 1995, p. 641-642
Condon, Matthew ‘Set Adrift in the Life of Bryan’, Weekend Australian, 16-17 July 1994, Weekend p. 6
Daniel, Helen ‘Outside the Prison of Logic’, Island Magazine, No. 59, Winter 1994, pp. 20-29 [Focusses on Drift]
Elliott, Helen ‘Brilliant Display of Style’, Canberra Times, 9 July 1994, p. C11
England, Katharine ‘White Drifts Towards Black and Becomes Technicolour Grey’, Australian Book Review, No. 162, July 1994, pp. 12-13
Goodwin, Ken ‘Fiction and Life Coalesce’, Courier-Mail, 9 July 1994, Weekend p. 6
Hanrahan, John ‘Enjoying the View’, Age Saturday Extra, 20 August 1994, p. 8
Iffland, Katrina ‘Castro’s Call for Cultural Revolution’ Canberra Times, 12 August 1995, p. C13
Johnson, Rob ‘Novel Twist from Fiction to Reality’, Advertiser Magazine, 27 August 1994, p. 11
McGirr, Michael ‘Three’s Company’, Eureka Street, Vol. 4, No. 8, October 1994, pp. 41-42
Pierce, Peter ‘Marooned and Loving It’, Bulletin, Vol. 116, No. 5933, 16 August 1994, pp. 104-105
Riemer, Andrew ‘Brian’s Life of Byron, or Should that Be Bryan?’, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 July 1994, Spectrum p. 9A
Ruskin, Pamela ‘What’s New in Books’, Australian Jewish News, Vol. 60, No. 50, 2 September 1994, p. 51
Shmith, Michael ‘Castro’s Lament’ Age Saturday Extra, 20 August 1994, p. 8
Sorensen, Rosemary ‘Story Upon a Story is Mainly Sleight of Hand, Sunday Age (Agenda), 24 July 1994, p. 8

Brief notices

Maniaty, Tony Paperback, Weekend Australian, 27-28 May 1995, Review p. 8

Stepper
Brennan, Bernadette ‘Brian Castro’s Tokyo: Schizophrenic Semiotic’, ‘Australian Writing and the City’: Proceedings of the 1999 ASAL Conference, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2000, pp. 129–137
Broinowski, Alison ‘Tokyo Secrets’, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 1997, Spectrum, p. 10s
Craven, Peter ‘Drifting Away from the Thrill of it All’, Sunday Age, 6 April 1997, Agenda p. 8
Daniel, Helen ‘Double Trouble’, Age, Saturday, 22 March 1997 [no page, Extra, Arts and Books]
Daniel, Helen Editorial, Australian Book Review, No. 190, May 1997, p. 2
Deves, Michael ‘Authenticity in Brian Castro’s Stepper’, Westerly, Vol. 45, November 2000, pp. 60–70
England, Katharine ‘Deconstructing Castro’, Advertiser, 12 April 1997, Review p. 12
Foong Ling Kong ‘Interest in the Amoral’, Overland, No. 151, Winter 1998, pp. 106-107
Gerster, Robin ‘A Border Crosser’s Secret Service’, Bulletin, Vol. 116, No. 6064, 29 March 1997, pp. 74-75
Indyk, Ivor ‘Castro’s Spymaster Novel’, Australian Book Review, No. 190, May 1997, pp. 6-7
Juers, Evelyn ‘A Rich Cocktail’, Australian’s Review of Books, April 1997, pp. 3–4
Koval, Ramona ‘Ramona Koval interviews Brian Castro about his new novel, Stepper’, Australian Book Review, No. 190, May 1997, pp. 8-10
Matthews, David ‘Spy who stayed out in the cold’, Weekend Australian, Review, 12–13 April 1997, p. 9
Mazza, Aimée ‘Aimée Mazza Responds to Tessa Morris-Suzuki’, Meanjin, Vol. 56, No. 3-4, Winter 1997, pp. 743-744
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa ‘A Novel for the Nineties’, Meanjin, Vol. 56, No. 2, 1997, pp. 256-262
Neate, Jack ‘Castro at His Best’, Courier-Mail, 22 March 1997, Weekend p. 7
Pierce, Peter ‘The Precarious Business of Owning the Self’, Canberra Times, 29 March 1997, p. C11
Richardson, Owen ‘Fuzzing it with feeling’, Republican, 28 March 1997, p. 25


Brief notices

Clark, Andrew ‘Author takes a big step in the right direction’, Age, 26 September 1997, p. A8
Clark, Graham [Paperbacks], Courier-Mail, 8 November 1997, Weekend, p. 9
Griffin, Michelle [In paperback], Sunday Age, 2 November 1997, Inside Story. p. 12
Waldren, Murray [Page Turners] Weekend Australian, Magazine, 4-5 January 1997, p. 9



Shanghai Dancing

Clancy, Laurie ‘Dancing to a tune of displacement’, Age, 26 April 2003, Review Books p. 5
Illgner, Amanda ‘Some life with Brian’ (book launch announcement), 19-25 May 2003, Sydney Writers’ Festival Events
Ley, James ‘Author behind the writer’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29–30 March 2003, Spectrum, p. 12
Moloughney, Brian ‘The bent hairpin of unreason: Brian Castro and auto/biography’, East Asian History, no. 29, June 2005, pp. 153-170
Pierce, Peter ‘Happy families in a funny sort of way’, Courier Mail, 12 April 2003, BAM, p. M08
Pierce, Peter (untitled review), The Bulletin, 21 May 2003
Sharkey, Michael ‘A blend of elegant leaps’, Weekend Australian, 19–20 April 2003, Review p. 12
Smith, Emily ‘Running from the family’, Sydney Writers' Festival, In Conversation
Sullivan, Jane ‘Castro and the fiction of fiction’, Age, 22 March 2003, Review, p. 3


The Garden Book

Clausen, Mads, Journal of Australian Studies Review of Books, Online Issue 44, July, 2006.
Harvey, Melinda, ‘The Avant-garde Minder’, ABR, October 2005, p. 4.
England, Katharine, ‘A Most Fertile Garden’, The Advertiser, 10 September 2005.
Kong, Foong Ling, The Bulletin, 22 November, 2005, p.69.
Lifschitz, Yaron, ‘Thank Goodness For Writing Like This’, The Courier Mail, January, 2006, p. 5.
Ley, James, ‘The Meaning is Beside the Point’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 September, 2005.
Moloughney, Brian ‘The bent hairpin of unreason: Brian Castro and auto/biography’, East Asian History, no. 29, June 2005, pp. 153-170
Pierce, Peter, The Age, August 27, 2005.
Wassenaar, Ingrid, ‘Toccata and fugue in a postmodernist key’ The Australian, 20 August 2005.



References

The following is a list of all references to Brian Castro's work. It repeats the references above in the classification by novel.

Anon. Winning Ways of Two Writers Weekend Australian (Magazine), 25-26 September 1982, p. 10
Anon. ‘A Sensitive Assignment’, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Vol. 69, No. 1001, February 1990, p. 36
Barker, Karen ‘The Milk of Mother’s Kindness in Brian Castro’s Drift’, in Sharyn Pearce and Philip Nielsen (eds), Current Tensions: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference, 6–11 July 1996, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Brisbane, pp. 228-235.
Barker, Karen ‘The Artful Man: Theory and Creativity in Brian Castro’s Fiction’, Australian Literary Studies, Vo. 20, No, 3, May 2002, pp. 231–240
Barker, Karen ‘Theory as Fireworks: An Interview with Brian Castro’, Australian Literary Studies, Vo. 20, No, 3, May 2002, pp. 241–248
Barlow, Damien ‘Authenticity/Hybridity and Pallawah Identities in Castro’s Drift’, Southerly, Vol. 58, No. 2, Winter 1998, pp. 59-66
Bennett, Catherine The Asian Australian Migrant Experience in Australian Literature 1965-1995, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Western Australia, 1996
Bennett, Cathy [Catherine] ‘Asian Australian’ Migrant Identity: Brian Castro’s ‘Birds of Passage’ and ‘After China’, Proceedings: Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Sixteenth Annual Conference, 3-8 July 1994, convened by Susan Lever and Catherine Pratt, 1995, Association for the Study of Australian Literature/Department of English, ADFA, pp. 145-152)
Brennan, Bernadette ‘Brian Castro’s Tokyo: Schizophrenic Semiotic’, ‘Australian Writing and the City’: Proceedings of the 1999 ASAL Conference, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2000, pp. 129–137
Brennan, Bernadette Documents: Absence and Negativity Conference Papers: Drift: Writing and/of Annihilation, Southerly, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2000, pp. 39–50
Brissenden, R.F. ‘Dangerous Investigations’, Editions, No. 8-9, September 1990, pp. 7-8
Broinowski, Alison ‘Tokyo Secrets’, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 1997, Spectrum, p. 10s
Burns, Graham ‘Travelling Birds’, Australian Book Review, No. 60, May 1984, pp. 17-18
Campbell, Marion ‘Double Writing/Bracketing Women’, Overland, No. 125, Summer 1991, pp. 87-88
Chenery, Susan ‘On the Inside of an Outsider’, Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), 1994, 2 July p. 10A
Clancy, Laurie 'Dancing to a tune of displacement', Age, 26 April 2003, Review Books p. 5
Clarke, Sally ‘Drift’, Redoubt, Vol. 22, June 1996, pp. 137-139
Clausen, Mads, Journal of Austrralian Studies Review of Books, Online Issue 44, July, 2006.
Coad, David Untitled Review, World Literature Today, Vol. 67, No. 3, Summer 1993, p. 667
Coad, David Untitled review, World Literature Today, Vol. 69, No. 3, 1995, p. 641-642
Condon,Matthew ‘Set Adrift in the Life of Bryan’, Weekend Australian, 16-17 July 1994, Weekend p. 6
Corkhill, Annette Australian Writing: Ethnic Writers 1945-1991, Forest Hill, Vic: Academia Press, 1994
Craven, Peter ‘Measured Words in a Maelstrom’, Australian, Higher Education, 1 May 1996, p. 39
Craven, Peter ‘Double Delights’, Sunday Age (Agenda), 12 September 1993, p. 8
Craven, Peter ‘Drifting Away from the Thrill of it All’, Sunday Age, 6 April 1997, Agenda p. 8
Craven, Peter Premier Contenders Line Up in the Literary Stakes Sunday Age (Agenda), 5 September 1993, p. 9
Creech, Nick ‘Winging Towards Elusive Heights’, Weekend Australian 20-21 August 1983, Magazine, p. 15
Daniel, Helen (ed.) The Good Reading Guide, McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1989, p. 42
Daniel, Helen ‘Breaking Conventions: a Double-Folding Fan’, Australian Book Review, No. 142, July 1992, pp. 4-6
Daniel, Helen ‘Double Trouble’, Age, Saturday, 22 March 1997 [no page, Extra, Arts and Books]
Daniel, Helen ‘Grand Arabesque Through Time’, Age Saturday Extra, 22 June 1991, p. 8
Daniel, Helen ‘Outside the Prison of Logic’ Island Magazine, No. 59, Winter 1994, pp. 20-29
Daniel, Helen ‘Plotting 8, an Account of Some Recent Australian Fiction: a Moment in the Sensible Flow’, Overland, No. 126, Autumn 1992, pp. 67-73
Daniel, Helen Editorial, Australian Book Review, No. 190, May 1997, p. 2
Daniel, Helen Liars: Australian New Novelists, Penguin, Ringwood, 1988
Delamotte, Jean-Paul ‘A la passée’, Magazine Litteraire, October 1988, p. 84
Delamotte, Jean-Paul ‘Intolérance aux antipodes’, Le Monde, 23 December 1988
Dempsey, Diane ‘My Favorite Book’ [by Brian Castro], Sunday Age, (Agenda), 26 June 1994, p. 10
Dessaix, Robert ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’, Australian Book Review, No. 128, March 1991, pp. 22-28
Deves, Michael ‘Brian Castro: Hybridity and Identity’, in Land and Identity. Proceedings of the 1997 Conference, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 1998, pp. 220-225
Deves, Michael 'Apart from the Expected': The Novels of Brian Castro, unpublished PhD thesis, Flinders University of South Australia, 2000
Deves, Michael ‘Authenticity in Brian Castro’s Stepper’, Westerly, Vol. 45, November 2000, pp. 60–70
Dudley, Michael ‘Apologia Pro Vita Nostra: Critics and Psychiatrists’, in Harry Heseltine (ed.) Literature and Psychiatry: Bridging the Divide, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, 1992, pp. 67-98
Elliott, Helen ‘Brilliant Display of Style’, Canberra Times, 9 July 1994, p. C11
England, Katharine ‘A Post-Modern Thriller and Some Loud Laughter’, Advertiser, 3 March 1990, p. 17
England, Katharine ‘Plotting 6, a Quarterly Account of Recent Fiction’, Overland, No. 120, Spring 1990, p. 45-50
England, Katharine ‘Brilliant, Erotic Balance of Affair Consummated in Stories’, Advertiser Magazine, 17 October 1992, p. 6
England, Katharine ‘White Drifts Towards Black and Becomes Technicolour Grey’, Australian Book Review, No. 162, July 1994, pp. 12-13
England, Katharine ‘Deconstructing Castro’, Advertiser, 12 April 1997, Review p. 12
England, Katharine, ‘A Most Fertile Garden’, The Advertiser, 10 September 2005.
Evans, Bob ‘Fine Writing that Rates a Longer Life’, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January 1994, p. 19
Fewster, Russell ‘Future Tense: Writing for the Millennium’, 24 Hours, July 1995, pp. 52-53, 59
Foong Ling Kong ‘Interest in the Amoral’, Overland, No. 151, Winter 1998, pp. 106-107
Fuller, Peter ‘Reality Offers Chance to Reproduce It In Writing’, Canberra Times, 7 March 1990, p. 32
Fuller, Peter ‘Pomeroy Will Not Be Bettered’, Canberra Times, 10 March 1990, p. B4
Fuller, Peter ‘Freud’s Wolf’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1991, p. 41
Fuller, Peter ‘Wolves Howling at the Doors of Perception’, Canberra Times, 13 July 1991, p. C8
Fuller, Peter ‘Groping Around in the Text’, Canberra Times, 10 October 1992, p. C9
Geason, Susan ‘In the China Hotel’, Sun-Herald, 6 September 1992, p. 118
Gerster, Robin ‘A Border Crosser’s Secret Service’, Bulletin, Vol. 116, No. 6064, 29 March 1997, pp. 74-75
Gilbey, David ‘When Hsiu Means Shu’, Australian Book Review, No. 142, July 1992, pp. 6-7
Goodwin, Ken ‘Fiction and Life Coalesce’, Courier-Mail, 9 July 1994, Weekend p. 6
Gould, Alan ‘A prize in doubt’, Age, 17 September 1983, Saturday Extra, p. 15
Grixti, Joe (Double-Wolf/After China), Imago, Vol. 5, No. 2, August 1993, pp. 92-94
Gunn, Michelle ‘Novelist’s second win proves a literary first’, Australian, 13 September 1991, p. 3
Halligan, Marion ‘Long on Metaphor, Short on Craft and Meaning ...’, Weekend Australian, 26-27 May 1990, p. rev 5
Hanrahan, John ‘Enjoying the View’, Age Saturday Extra, 20 August 1994, p. 8
Harvey, Melinda, ‘The Avant-garde Minder’, ABR, October 2005, p. 4.
Holt, Stephanie (ed.) Meanjin The Asia Issue, Vol. 57, No. 3, 1998
Horsburgh, Susan ‘Novel Approaches’, Australian, 1995, 20 September p. 17
Huggan, Graham ‘Looking (North-)West to the East: Some Thoughts on the Asianisation of Australian Literature’, in Werner Senn and Giovanna Capone (eds) The Making of a Pluralist Australia 1950-1990, Selected Papers from the Inaugural EASA Conference 1991, Peter Lang, Bern, 1992, pp. 219-227
Hutchings, Peter ‘Disconnections and Misdirections’, Adelaide Review, No. 74, March 1990, p. 20 (also published Sydney Review, No. 23, April 1990, pp. 18-19)
Iffland, Katrina ‘Castro’s Call for Cultural Revolution’ Canberra Times, 12 August 1995, p. C13
llgner, Amanda 'Some life with Brian' (book launch announcement), 19-25 May 2003, Sydney Writers' Festival Events
Indyk, Ivor ‘Castro’s Spymaster Novel’, Australian Book Review, No. 190, May 1997, pp. 6-7
Jacobs, Lyn ‘About Face: Asian-Australians at Home’, Australian Literary Studies, Vo. 20, No, 3, May 2002, pp. 201–214
Johnson, Rob ‘A Reappraisal of the Wolf-Man’s Dreams’, Advertiser, 29 June 1991, p. 12
Johnson, Rob ‘Novel Twist from Fiction to Reality’, Advertiser Magazine, 27 August 1994, p. 11
Jose, Nicholas ‘Dead Jumbuck’, Age Monthly Review, January 1984, pp. 19-20
Jose, Nicholas ‘Reworking “The Wolf Man” ’, Voices, Vol. 1, No. 4, Summer (1991-1992) 1991, pp. 97-99
Jose, Nicholas ‘About Books: China Matters’, National Library of Australia News, Vol. 2 No. 12, September 1992, pp. 8-10
Juers, Evelyn ‘A Rich Cocktail’, Australian’s Review of Books, April 1997, pp. 3–4
Kellaway, Frank ‘Distinguished Fiction’, Overland, No. 93, December 1983, pp. 65-66
Kenneally, Catherine ‘Compelled to connect’, Australian Book Review, No. 118, 1990, pp. 15-16
Khoo, Tseen Ling ‘Who Are We Talking About? Asian Australian Women Writers: An Overview’, Hecate, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1996, pp. 11-30
Kong, Foong Ling, The Bulletin, 22 November, 2005, p.69.
Kosky, Robert ‘Desires that Don’t Lie Down’, Editions 12, Spring 1991, pp. 24-25
Koval, Ramona ‘Ramona Koval interviews Brian Castro about his new novel, Stepper’, Australian Book Review, No. 190, May 1997, pp. 8-10
Lever, Susan, Westerly, Vol. 49, 2004
Ley, James 'Author behind the writer', Sydney Morning Herald, 29–30 March 2003, Spectrum, p. 12
Ley, James, ‘The Meaning is Beside the Point’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 September, 2005.
Liang, Fen ‘Brian Castro’s After China—A Translation into Mandarin and a Study of the Novel’s Linguistic and Social Contexts in Australia and China’, unpublished PhD, Thesis, University of Western Australia, 1997
Liang, Fen ‘Castro’s After China in China,’ Otherland, No. 7
Lifschitz, Yaron, ‘Thank Goodness For Writing Like This’, The Courier Mail, January, 2006, p. 5.
Matthews, David ‘Spy who stayed out in the cold’, Weekend Australian, Review, 12–13 April 1997, p. 9
Mazza, Aimée ‘Aimée Mazza Responds to Tessa Morris-Suzuki’, Meanjin, Vol. 56, No. 3-4, Winter 1997, pp. 743-744
McCulloch-Uehlin, Susan ‘The Final Word’, Weekend Australian, 30-31 October 1999, Review pp. 6-8
McGirr, Michael ‘Three’s Company’, Eureka Street, Vol. 4, No. 8, October 1994, pp. 41-42
McLaren, John ‘A Howler’, Australian Book Review, No. 132, July 1991, pp. 38-40
Moloughney, Brian ‘The bent hairpin of unreason: Brian Castro and auto/biography’, East Asian History, no. 29, June 2005, pp. 153-170
Melhem, Moha ‘Who’s Afreud …’, Australian Left Review, No. 131, August 1991, p. 46
Messer, Jane ‘After Double Wolf’, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, Vol. 711, No. 1026, May 1992, p. 22
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa ‘A Novel for the Nineties’, Meanjin, Vol. 56, No. 2, 1997, pp. 256-262
Neate, Jack ‘Castro at His Best’, Courier-Mail, 22 March 1997, Weekend p. 7
Nelson, Penelope ‘Deep Sleep – a Nightmare, No Less’, Weekend Australian, 17-18 August 1991, Review p. 5
O’Loghlin, Libby ‘Castro Complex’, Redoubt, No. 21, 1995, pp. 113-115
Ommundsen, Wenche ‘After Castro, Post Multiculturalism?’ Tirra Lirra, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer (1994-1995) pp. 10-13
Ommundsen, Wenche ‘Multiculturalism, identity, displacement: The lives of Brian (Castro)’ in Wenche Ommundsen and Hazel Rowley (eds), From a Distance: Australian Writers and Cultural Displacement, Deakin University Press, 1996, pp. 149-158
Pierce, Peter ‘Katoomba the Missing Link’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1991, p. 41
Pierce, Peter ‘Uprooting a Life’, Bulletin, Vol. 114, No. 5830, 28 July 1992, p. 91
Pierce, Peter ‘Marooned and Loving It’, Bulletin, Vol. 116, No. 5933, 16 August 1994, pp. 104-105
Pierce, Peter ‘Things are Cast Adrift’: Brian Castro’s Fiction Australian Literary Studies, 1995, Vol. 17, No. 2, October pp. 149-156
Pierce, Peter ‘The Precarious Business of Owning the Self’, Canberra Times, 29 March 1997, p. C11
Pierce, Peter 'Happy families in a funny sort of way', Courier Mail, 12 April 2003, BAM, p. M08
Pierce, Peter (untitled review), The Bulletin, 21 May 2003
Pierce, Peter, The Age, August 27, 2005.
Poirier, François (untitled review), Art Press (France), 30 October 1988, p. 60
Pons, Xavier ‘Impossible Coincidences: Narrative Strategy in Brian Castro’s Birds of Passage’, Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, October 1990, pp. 464-475
Richardson, Owen ‘Fuzzing it with feeling’, Republican, 28 March 1997, p. 25
Riemer, A[ndrew]. P. ‘Castro’s Worlds’ Independent Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 7, February 1993, pp. 27-28
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