Articles and Criticism List

Journalism, Biographies, Linguistics, Music, Criticism & Others

Urgent Copy: Literary Studies (1968)
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986), also published as But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop and Other Writings
One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings, ed. Ben Forkner (1998)

Language Made Plain (1964) (ISBN 0-8152-0222-9)
A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992) (ISBN 0-688-11935-2)

This Man and Music (1982)
On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang, Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination (1991)

Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965), also published as Re Joyce
Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (1973)

(as John Burgess Wilson) English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)
The Novel To-day (1963)
The Novel Now: A Student's Guide to Contemporary Fiction (1967)
Scrissero in Inglese (1979) ("They Wrote in English", Italy only)
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice (1984)

'What is Pornography?' (essay) in Perspectives on Pornography, ed. Douglas A. Hughes (1970)
Obscenity and the Arts (1973)
New York (1976)
A Christmas Recipe (1977)
On Going To Bed (1982)
An Essay on Censorship (letter to Salman Rushdie in verse) (1989)
Childhood (Penguin 60s series) (1996)
Rencontre au Sommet (conversations between Burgess and Isaac Bashevis Singer in book form) (1998)
Spain: The Best Travel Writing from the New York Times (2001) (section)
Return Trip Tango and Other Stories from Abroad (anthology of material published in Translation magazine) (2003) (section)