Reviews

• unsigned, Publisher's Weekly Web Exclusive, 23 February  2009 (brief notice).
• Alexis, André, Toronto Globe and Mail, 17 April  2009.
• Assouline, Pierre, La République des Livres (a blog with Le Monde, Paris), 10 March  2009.
• Banville, John, The New Republic, 20 May 2009.
• Bate, Jonathan, Sunday Telegraph (UK), 22 March  2009.
• Byron, Mark S., “Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck (eds.), The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940," The Review of English Studies, August 2009 (requires subscription).
• Cole, S. W., Review, Choice Review.
• Coetzee, J. M. “The Making of Samuel Beckett,” New York Review of Books, 30 April 2009.
• Conrad, Peter, The Observer (UK), 24 May 2009.
• Dawe, Gerald,Sunday Business Post(UK), 1 March 2009.
• DiFalco, Salvatore, Toro Magazine, 16 July 2009.
• Dirda, Michael, “No More Waiting for Beckett’s Letters,” Washington Post, 2 April  2009.
• Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert, “The First Stirrings of a Writer,” Daily Telegraph (UK), 26 February  2009.
• Dukes, Gerry, The Independent (Dublin), 21 February 2009.
• Fulford, Robert, National Post (Canada), 21 July 2009.
• Fusini, Nadia, “Anima di Beckett storia di un,” La Repubblica (Italy), 7 April 2009.
• Garner, Dwight, New York Times, 5 March  2009.
• Garner, Dwight and Ammon Shea, International Herald Tribune, 17 March 2009.
• Grene, Nicholas, “Pieces of Beckett,” Irish Times, 7 March  2009.
• Haughton, Hugh,  Literary Review, June 2009.
• Henscher, Philip, “More Gossip with Less Art,” The Spectator (London), 25 February  2009.
• Horovitz, Michael,  London Times, 17 April  2009.
• Jackson, Kevin, Sunday Times (UK), 22 March 2009.
• Jacobs, Bruce, The Week Behind (Chicago), August 2009.
• Josipovici, Gabriel,  The Times Literary Supplement (London), 11 March 2009.
• Kelly, Robert, Library Journal, March 2009 (brief notice -- scroll down).
• Lane, Anthony, “Waiting,” The New Yorker, 30 March 2009.
• Ley, James, “The Silence Underlying All,” Australian Book Review, June 2009.
• Lezard, Nicholas, “Love, styles and stools,” The Guardian (UK), 21 March  2009.
• Mason, Wyatt, “Grammar and Style,” Harper's Magazine, 23 March 2009.
• Moroney, Robin, The Wall Street Journal, 12 March 2009.
• O’Brien, George, “Posted in France” Dublin Review of Books, no. 10, Summer 2009.
• O'Neill, Joseph, “I’ll Go On,” New York Times Book Review, 2 April 2009.
• Perloff, Marjorie, “Sam I Am,” Bookforum, June/July/August 2009.
• Rubin, Martin, "What the Beckett Letters Show," Washington Times, 16 June 2009.
• Rutten, Tim, “The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940,” Los Angeles Times, 18 March  2009.
• Shilling, Jane, “Beckett: boils and all,” The Daily Mail (UK), 16 March 2009.
• Simon, Jeff, Buffalo News, 5 April 2009
• Stephen, Ross, “Shining Agates of Negation, The Oxonian Review, 3.7, 9 March 2009.
• Swift, Daniel,  Financial Times, 15 August  2009.
• Tóibín, Colm,  “Who to Be,” London Review of Books, 6 August 2009 (requires subscription).
• Walsh, John, “The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-1940,” The Independent (London), 20 February 2009.
• Williams, Wyatt, “Waiting for a Reply,” Creative Loafing (Atlanta), 10 March  2009.

• unsigned, TheBookbag.com, 17 October 2011.
• unsigned, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume Two: 1941-1956," Oldie (Review of Books), April 1, 2012.
• unsigned, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume II, 1945-1956," The Scotsman, 28 October 2011.
• unsigned, "Man of Words," The Economist, 24 September 2011. 
• unsigned, "New book of letters speaks volumes about Beckett," Irish Examiner, 11 October 2011.
• unsigned, "On Needing to be Looked After: Beckett's Letters," The London Review of Books, 22.12, 1 December 2011.
• Banville, John, "Beckett: Storming for Beauty." The New York Review of Books, 22 March 2012.
• Beplate, Justin, "Words will be your shelter," New Statesman, 7 November 2011.
• Corn, Alfred, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett," The Poetry Blog, February 2012.
• Craig, Patricia, "Endgames, fresh starts," Independent, 21 October 2011.
• Craven, Peter, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956," The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 February 2012.
• Del Guerico, Gerardo, GRAAT. Anglophone Studies, May 2012.
• Dirda, Michael, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett," Washington Post, 7 October 2011.
• Donoghue, Denis, "Samuel Beckett's Mindgame," The New York Times, 28 October 2011.
• Donoghue, Denis,"Samuel Beckett's Mindgame," The International Harold, 30 October 2011 (reprint of review from The New York Times).
• Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume Two: review," The Telegraph, 9 January 2012.
• Drury, Paul, "The Beckett We Never Knew," Irish Daily Mail, 3 October 2011.
• Dukes, Gerry, ”Review: Letters: The Letters Of Samuel Beckett Volume II: 1941-1956,” The Independent, 24 September 2011.
• Finlayson, Iain, "Biography & Memoir," The Times [London] (Saturday Review), December 3, 2011.
• Foster, Roy, "Darkness and Kindness," The New Republic, 23 November 2011.
• Gordon, Edmund, "Work, work, work," The Sunday Times, 9 October 2011.
• Grene, Nicholas,  "Beckett after hostilities," The Irish Times, 24 September 2011.
• Hensher, Philip "The Letters of Samuel Beckett Vol 2 edited by George Craig-review," The Guardian, 9 December  2011.
• Hon, Ethan "Literary Tantalus," The New Inquiry, 23 December 2011.
• Horowitz, Michael, "Beckett in France-the letters and the leeks," Independent, 23 October 2011.
• Hutton-Williams, Francis, "Pulverizing the Pretty Charlock," The Oxonian Review, 14 November 2011.
• Ivry, Benjamin, "Samuel Beckett's Letters Reveal Roots of Resistance," The Jewish Daily Forward, 27 October 2011.
• Jenkins, Alan, "How I dislike that play now...," The Times Literary Supplement, 2 November 2011.
• Josipovici, Gabriel,  "Years of Intensity," The Wall Street Journal, 19 November 2011.
• Keatinge, Benjamin, "Much the Same." Dublin Review of Books, Issue 12, Spring 2012.
• Keizer, Burt, "And Again," The Threepenny Review, 13, Summer 2012.
• Keplan, Sefa "Beckett’ın beş bin mektubu yayımlandı," Hurriyet, 7 Kasim 2011.
• Marchand, Philip, "Open Book: The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956," National Post, 25 November 2011.
• Matthews, Tom, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett (1941-1956)," The Stinging Fly, 2.21, Spring 2012.
• Mount, Ferdinand. "The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume II, 1945-1956," The Spectator, 29 October 2011.
• North, Michael, "Biography Sideways," Los Angeles Review of Books, 17 January 2012.
• Nussbaum, Jeremy, "Jeremy is Reading: The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956." The Book Report, Book Hampton Book Reviews & News, 20 December 2011.
• Odom, Brian, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956," The Washington Independent Review of Books, 6 December 2011.
• Parks, Tim, "On Needing to Be Looked After: Beckett's Letters," The London Review of Books, 33.23, 1 December 2011.
• Pilling, John, "Still Telling the Old Story," Modernism/Modernity, 1.4, November 2011, 899-905.
• Power, Kevin, "Insight into Beckett's creative soul," The Sunday Business Post, 2 October 2011.
• Price, Aridea Fezzi, "Beckett, un duro molto sentimentale," Il Giornale, 25 October 2011.
• Rowse, Oliver, "Beckett and Hemingway," Arete: the Arts Tri-Quarterly, 36, Winter Issue, 2011.
• Semler, Phil, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956," San Francisco Book Review; Sacramento Book Review, 2 December, 2011.
• Sexton, David, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume II: Review," London Evening Standard, 29 September 2011.
• Sexton, David. "The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume II: 1941-1956," The Scotsman, 28 October 2011.
• Shortall, Eithne, "The Waiting is Over," The Sunday Times, 2 October 2011.
• Simon, Jeff, “Editor's Choice," BuffaloNews.com, 13 November 2011.
• Tenz, Kent, "Newly published letters reveal Samuel Beckett's love for Germany," Deutsche Welle, 5 December  2011.
• Vincent, Gyn, "What's So Secret About Samuel Beckett," The Huffington Post, 1 November  2011.
• Zuppello, Maria, "Aspettando Beckett," Europa, 17 January 2012.

Books of the Year

• Akin, Ajayi, "Books of the Year," Times Literary Supplement, December 3, 2011: 8-10, 12-14. Named by Roy Foster, Paul Griffiths, Gabriel Josipovici, and Marjorie Perloff.
• Thirwell, Adam, "A Year in Books," New Statesman, 42, 49. 21 November 2011.

• Banville, John, “John Banville on Samuel Beckett: a man of many letters,” Irish Times, October 4, 2014.
• Campbell, James. “The Self-Loathing of Samuel Beckett,” The Wall Street Journal, 12 December 2014.
• Doran, Sean, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1957-1965, book review: Third volume of letters reveals more about the writer than the man." The Independent, October 9, 2014.
• Furlani, Andre. "Samuel Beckett's Letters and the "Syntax of Weakness," Modernism/Modernity, 22.1, January 2015.
• Gunn, Dan, “Beckett and Bray,” The Guardian, 26 September 2014.
• Milne, W.S. “Tough as Old Boots.” The London Magazine, December/January, 2014/2015.
• Muldoon, Paul.  “The Letters and Poems of Samuel Beckett,” Sunday Book Review, 12 December 2014.
• O’Kelly, Emer. “Long-awaited third volume of Beckett’s Letters.” The Independent, 13 October 2014.
• O’Toole, Fintan. “Beckett in Love, The New York Review of Books, 2 April 2015.
• Popova, Maria. “The Art of Tough Love,” Brain Pickings, 15 January 2015.
• Popova, Maria. "The Power of One True Believer: Samuel Beckett's Beautiful Homage to His Greatest Champion," Brain Pickings, April 2015.
• Rosignoli, Stefano. "The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965, An Interview with Lois More Overbeck," New Dublin Press, January 2015.
• Shetir, Rachel. “Beckett in Bed,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 November 2014.
• Simon, John. “Beckett two ways,” The New Criterion, April 2015.
• Simonak, Jonah, “From Kafka to Delillo: A small list of writers who ejected their own work,” Melville House, 22 October 2014.
• Tayler, Christopher, “Under-the-Table-Talk,” London Review of Books, 19 March 2015.
• Sexton, David. "The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume III: 1957-1965." The Evening Standard. October 9, 2014.
• Wheatley, David, Poetry Foundation Reading List, November 2014.

Books of the Year

• Ian Thomson, The Spectatorr, 24 November 2014.
• Banville, John, “A Book for everyone, (books of the year), The Guardian, 29 November 2014:2,3,4
• Durantez, Miriam GonzAlez, Books of the year 2014,” The Evening Standard, 11 December 2014.
• Foster, Roy, “Book of the Year,” Irish Times, 5 December 2015.
• Josipovici, Gabriel, “Books of the Year,” Times Literary Supplement, 28 November 2014: 8.
• Ussher, Shaun, “Top reads of the year,” The Big Issue, 15 December 2014, 39.
• Rudick, Nicole, “Staff Picks: Beckett, Boxtrolls, Bard, The Paris Review, 26 September 2014.

• "The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Vol. IV, 1966-1989." Publishers Weekly. December 2016.
• Abell, Stig, "Book of the Year 2016," Times Literary Supplement, 23 November 2016 – received three mentions (Paul Griffiths, John Kerrigan, Marjorie Perloff), the most of any book.
• Adams, Alexander, “Samuel Becket: a man of letters,” Spiked, 16 January 2017.
• Alberge, Dalya.  “Waiting for Guinness: playwright Beckett’s regret over career choice.” The Sunday Times, 4 September 2016.
• Banville, John, "That's nobody's business," The Daily Telegraph, 1 October 2016.
• Beplate, Justin. "Endgame," Literary Review. December 2016.
• Collini, Stefan. “Highlight of Stay So Far.”  London Review of Books, Vol. 38 No. 23. 1 December 2016. 
• Crace, John. "The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966-1989 - digested read," The Guardian, 25 September 2016.
• Fay, Robert. "Finding Wisdom in the Letters of Aging Writers," The Atlantic. 11 December 2016.
• Grene, Nicholas, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966-1989 review: 30 years of extraordinary work," The Irish Times, 8 October 2016.
• Holohan, Kevin, "Writing's All I'm good for,'" Irish Echo, 13 December 2016.
• Mortan, Brian, "When Larry Met Sammy," Scottish Review of Books, December 2016.
• O’Malley, J. P., "An emotional farewell from Ireland's master of existential doom," The Independent, 10 October 2016.
• O'Toole, Fintan, "Beckett Plays Beckett," The New York Review of Books, 24 November 2016.
• Power, Chris, "The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1966-1989 - a long farewelling," The Guardian, 19 October 2016.
• Roche, Anthony, “The Last Ditch,” Dublin Review of Books, 83, November 2016.
• Sansom, Ian. "Samuel Beckett's letters reveal a firecely workaholic," The Spectator, 1 October 2016.
• Sexton, David. "The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV: 1966-1989," The Evening Standard, 15 September 2016.
• Tayler, Christopher. "The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume IV review - 'I work on'," The Financial Times, 1 October 2016. 
• Walsh, John. "Books: The Letters of Samuel Beckett Vol 4: 1966-1989," The Times, 25 September 2016.
• Wheatley, David, “Black diamonds of pessimism: The final correspondence of Samuel Beckett,” Times Literary Supplement, 20 January 2017.
• Womersley, David, "Sam-I-am's final act," Standpoint Magazine, November 2016.

Books of the Year

• “Best books of 2016” Evening Standard. 17 November 2016. 
• “Best books of 2016” The Guardian. 26 November 2016. 
• Doyle, Martin. “Our Favorite Books of 2016” The Irish Times. 3 December 2016.