- [Review of Gain] Kirkus (April
1, 1998): 433.
- [Review of Gain] Publisher's
Weekly 245.15 (April 13, 1998): 50.
- Kloszewski, Marc. [Review of Gain]
Library Journal 123.8 (May 1, 1998): 140.
- Schmitz, Neil. "Exploring the High
Cost of Gain." Buffalo News (April 29, 1998).
- Moore, Steven.
[Review of Gain]
Rain Taxi 3.2 (Summer 1998): 35.
- Berger, Kevin. "Powers For the
People." San Francisco Magazine (June, 1998): 62.
- Moody, Rick. "Corporate Killers."
Village Voice 43.22 (June 2, 1998): 134.
- Marcus, Greil. "The Intersecting Fate
of an Ordinary Woman and a Giant Corporation." San Francisco Sunday
Examiner and Chronicle (June 7, 1998): Book Review 3-4.
- Caldwell, Gail.
"On the soapbox: Richard Powers's novel of industry, illness, and the
problem of culpability." Boston Globe (June 7, 1998):
C1. Review of Gain.
- Mellen, Joan. "Gain." The Sun
(Baltimore, MD). (June 7, 1998).
- Horowitz, Steve. "A Soap Opera."
Icon (June 11, 1998): 8.
- Kirn, Walter. "Commercial Fiction."
New York 31.23 (June 15, 1998): 51, 103. Review of Gain.
- Wilkinson, Joanne. [Review of Gain]
Booklist 94.19,20 (June 1 & 15, 1998): 1727.
- Kirsch, Adam.
"Corporeality: Richard Powers's Sixth Novel Measures the Fruits of American Capitalism, In
Sickness and In Health." Boston Phoenix (June
18-25 1998).
- Bawer, Bruce. "Bad Company." New
York Times Book Review (June 21, 1998): 11. Review of Gain.
- O'Connor, Kyrie. "No Pain, No 'Gain':
Another Powers Brain Teaser, With Heart." Hartford Courant (June
21, 1998): G3.
- Eder, Richard. "A Deadly Business."
Newsday (June 21, 1998): B10. Also syndicated in Los
Angeles Times as "Lethal Riches."
- Begley, Adam. "A Post-Industrial
Complex From a Post-Ironic Hero." New York Observer (June 22,
1998): 40. Review of Gain integrated with interview comments from
Powers.
- Livingstone, David B. "Gaining an
Epic." Detroit Free Press (June 28, 1998). Also available
online at Spike
Magazine and
Realbooks.
- Shechner, Mark. "Soap as a Means of
Grace." The New Leader 81.8 (June 29-July 13, 1998): 26-27.
Review of Gain.
- Clover, Joshua. "Gain." Spin
(July, 1998): 60.
- Bukiet, Melvin Jules. "Gain: Richard
Powers' Novel About the Life of a Corporation and the Death of a Woman."
Chicago Tribune.
- Bukowski, Elizabeth. "The Dirty
Business of Cleaning Up." Wall Street Journal (July 1, 1998):
- Disch, Thomas M. "Corporate Profit and
Personal Loss." Wasington Post Book World (July 5, 1998): 1
- Nufer, Doug. "No Pain No Gain." The
Stranger (Seattle, WA). (July 9, 1998): 25. Review of Gain
with interview comments by Powers.
- Mesler, Corey. "Wonders and Horrors of
America." The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN). (July 12, 1998):
G3.
- Singer, Dale. "Powerful Tale Tracks
Both Gain and Loss." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 12, 1998): D5.
- Feeley, Gregory, "Firm's History,
Woman's Tragedy Entwine to Deliver Tale of America." Philadelphia
Inquirer (July 19, 1998)
- Begley, Adam. "Laura and Clare Soap
and Chemical." St. Petersburg Times (July 26, 1998).
- Green, Hardy. "'People Want
Everything. That's Their Problem.'" Business Week no. 3588
(July 27, 1998): 12. Review of Gain. "A subtle novel that indicts not
just corporate polluters but civilization itself."
- Updike, John. "Soap and Death in
America." The New Yorker (July 27, 1998): 76-77. Note: This review is included in Updike's anthology More Matter: Essays and Criticism, (Knopf, 1999) pp. 317-320.
- Leach, Catherine Roberts. "Ascending
on Wax Wings." Country Connections (July-August, 1998): 11.
- Cook, John. "Gain." Mother Jones
(July-August, 1998): 66-67.
- LeClair, Tom. "Powers of Invention."
The Nation 267.4 (July 27-August 3, 1998): 33-35. Review of
Gain.
- Wattenberg, Daniel. "The Rebirth of
the Social Novel." New York Post (July 31, 1998)
- Stead, Deborah, "Corporate Gain and
Human Loss." New York Times. (August 2, 1998): B11.
- Barron, John. "Powers Goes Beyond the
Usual Suspects." Chicago Sun-Times. (August 9, 1998): SHOT
18, Late Final Edition. Review of Gain.
- Kakutani, Michiko. "Life Amid a
Company Town's Prosperity and Pain." New York Times. (August 11,
1998): B6. Review of Gain.
- Doenges, Judy. "Wasting Away."
Seattle Times (August 16, 1998): M10.
- Dykes, Steve. "Epic Boston Tale Will
'Gain' Praise of Readers." Boston Sunday Herald (August 16,
1998).
- Milan, Karen.
"Inventive Virtuoso:
Seeing Our Reflection in the Making of Soap." Star-Telegram
(Fort Worth, Texas) (August 23 1998).
- Holmes, Cathy. "America Facing
Corporate Alienation." The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC).
(August 23, 1998): 7G
- Harris, Charles B. "'The Stereo View':
Politics and the Role of the Reader in Gain". Review of
Contemporary Fiction 18.3 (Fall 1998): 97-108.
- S.D.W. "Gain." Elliott Bay Book
Notes (Fall 1998).
- Asirvatham, Sandy.
"Company Man."
City Paper (September 2, 1998): 36.
- Marcr. "Geen Einde Aan de Groei?"
De Financieel-Economische Tijd. (November 21, 1998): 12.
Review of Gain.
- Johnson, Eric.
"A Price worth paying."
MetroActive. (December 3-9, 1998).
- Scott, A.O. “A Matter of Life and
Death.” New York Review of Books 45.20 (December 17, 1998):
38-42. Review of Gain. Includes a David Levine caricature of Powers.
- Shuman, R. Baird. "[Review of Gain]"
Magill's Literary Annual, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press (1999).
pp. 324-328.
- Lernout, Geert. [Review of Gain].
De Morgen. (February 25, 1999).
- Kovel, Joel, [Review of Gain]
Capitalism Nature Socialism 10:2, issue 38 (June 1999).
- Belling, Catherine.
"Gain."
Literature, Arts and Medicine Database 37th edition. (October
1999).
Annotation/review of Gain.
- Williams, Jeffrey.
"The Issue of
Corporations: Richard Powers' Gain." Cultural Logic.
2.2 (Spring 1999).
- Wilhemus, Tom. "Gain." The
Hudson Review. 52.2 (Summer 1999): 343. Review of Gain.
- Bornstein, L. "Gain." Albuquerque
Tribune (July 16, 1999). Review of Gain and
announcement of book club discussion of book.
- Brown, Helen.
"Soft Soap Leads to Hard
Choices." Daily Telegraph (London). (February 28, 2000).
- McHale, James. "The Centre Can't
Hold." The Sunday Tribune (Dublin). (March 5, 2000).
- Quinn, Paul. "On the Tracks of the
Rhino." Times Literary Supplement. 5059 (March 17, 2000):
22
- Urquhart, James. "A Malignant Growth
in the Community." The Independent (March 31, 2000).
- Koenig, Rhoda. "Soft Soap."
Literary Review (April, 2000): 26.
- Bakhshi, Vicki. "Corporation v
Cancer." The Weekend Financial Times (London). (May 6, 2000).
- Lewis, Trevor. "Gain." The Sunday
Times (London). (May 7, 2000).
- Gilbert, Francis. "Consumed by Greed."
The Times (London). (May 13, 2000).
- Sutherland, John. "Paper or Plastic?"
London Review of Books (August 10, 2000): 20-21. Double review of
Gain and Plowing the Dark.
- Buell, Lawrence, Writing for an
Endangered World: Literature Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and
Beyond. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2001. Gain analyzed in Chapter 2: "The Place of Place,"
page 55ff.
- Edgar, Ian. "Gain." The Times
(London). (November 3-9, 2001): PLAY 16.
- Lynch, Lisa, "The Epidemiology of
'Regrettable Kinship': Gender, Epidemic, and Community in Todd Haynes's
[Safe] and Richard Powers's Gain." Journal of Medical
Humanities, volume 23 issue 3 (Winter 2002). p. 203-219.
- Heise, Ursula K. "Toxins, Drugs,
and Global Systems: Risk and Narrative in the Contemporary Novel."
American Literature 74:4 (December 2002): 748-778 Reprinted in
Science, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fiction
(Peter Freese, editor), Essen: Blaue Eule, 2004. p. 343-381
- Schmitz, Christian. "A History of Hyperreality - The Rise of Clare Inc. in Richard Powers' Gain." January 2006. Düsseldorf: Heinrich-Heine-Universität. Thesis for American Literature seminar. 20 p. (ISBN: 3638562808)
- Ball, Phillip. "Chemistry and Power in Recent American Fiction."
HYLE--International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, Vol. 12, No.1
(2006): 45-66. Includes a discussion of Gain. Available online at
http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/12-1/ball.htm.
- Carlson, Michael. "Richard Powers' Gain: The First Great Novel of the Millennium"
Irresistible Targets, (August 15, 2008) Available online at http://irresistibletargets.blogspot.com/2008/08/richard-powers-gain-first-great-novel.html.
- Kucharzewski, Jan D. "Disposable Miracles: Incorporated Subjectivities in Richard Powers’s Gain." in "Hello, I Say, It’s Me": Contemporary Reconstructions of Self and Subjectivity. Jan Kucharzewski, Stefanie Schäfer und Lutz Schowalter (eds.). Trier, Germany: WVT, 2009.
- Aaron Jaffe. "Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain and the Horizon of Risk." in Pellegrin, Jean-Yves (ed). Opening Perspectives. Six Essays on Richard Powers. in Transatlantica: American Studies Journal. 2:2009 (July-Dec. 2009) (ISSN 1765-2766)
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