- Anonymous, [Review of Operation
Wandering Soul]. Kirkus (March 15, 1993). Starred review.
- Steinberg, Sybil S. "Forecasts:
Fiction." Publishers Weekly 240 (April 5, 1993): 63. Review
of OWS.
- "Short List." Mirabella (May,
1993). Brief review of Operation Wandering Soul.
- Michaud, Charles. "Book Reviews:
Fiction." Library Journal 118 (May 1, 1993): 117. Review of
Operation Wandering Soul.
- Cryer, Dan. "The Storytellers' Mission
To Keep Suffering At Bay." Newsday (May 17, 1993).
- Birkerts, Sven. "Fate of the
Innocent." Chicago Tribune (May 23, 1993): Section 14, 1,
10-11. Review of OWS.
- Schoolman, Martha. "General Fiction:
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers." Booklist
89.19-20 (June 1, 1993): 1788. Review of OWS.
- Bawer, Bruce. "Beautiful Dreamers."
Washington Post Book World 23.24 (June 13, 1993): 2. Review
of OWS. Also appears in International Herald Tribune (June 25,
1993): 9.
- LeClair, Tom. "A Novel That Dares to
Be Read." Houston Post (June 18, 1993): C4. Review of OWS.
- LeClair, Tom. "Exposing the 'Soul' of
Lost Children." USA Today (June 25, 1993): D5. Review of
OWS.
- Olson, Jon. "'Wandering Soul' Loses
Its Way Although It Begins On Right Track." Milwaukee Journal
(July 4, 1993).
- Lescaze, Lee. "Bookshelf: Man, Past
and Present." Wall Street Journal 222.8 (July 13, 1993):
A14. Review of OWS.
- Wolitzer, Meg. "The Assault on
Children." New York Times Book Review 142 (July 18, 1993):
19. Review of OWS.
- Howard, Maureen. "A Fear of Being
Without the Books That Must be Read and Reread." Boston Globe
(July 18, 1993): B34. Operation Wandering Soul listed among a
roundup of recent significant fiction.
- Copeland, Anna. "We're Losing
Childhood, Novelist Warns." Greensboro News and Record
(July 19, 1993): F1. Rev. of OWS.
- Skow, John. "Children's Ward:
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers." Time 142.3
(July 19, 1993): 64-66. Review of OWS.
- Harris Michael. "Mad Descent into
Kids' Apocalypse." Los Angeles Times (August 23, 1993): E2.
Review of OWS.
- Shuman, R. B. "[Review of Operation
Wandering Soul]." Choice 31 (September, 1993): 122. Review
of OWS. An expanded review by Shuman appears in Magill Book Reviews
For Dow Jones News/Retrieval.
- Easton, Nina J. "L.A. and Other
Fictions." Los Angeles Times Magazine (September 5, 1993): 10-32.
- Moore, Steven. "Book Reviews:
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers." Review of
Contemporary Fiction 13.3 (Fall, 1993): 208. Review of OWS.
- Shuman, R. Baird. "[Review of OWS]"
Magill's Literary Annual, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press (1994).
pp. 586-589.
- Lantos, John. "Peter Pan, the Pied
Piper, and Pediatrics." Theoretical Medicine 15 (1994):
449-454.
- Kearns, Cleo McNelly. "The Harrowing
Grace of Truthful Fiction: A Review of Richard Power's Operation
Wandering Soul." Theology Today 51 (January, 1995):
588-593. Review of Operation Wandering Soul.
- Knight, Sebastian. "Chattering Class:
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers." New Statesman &
Society 8.341 (February 24, 1995): 54. Review of OWS.
- Nicholson, Geoff. Time Out
(London). (March 23, 1996).
- Lantos, John D. "Stories of Biology
and Medicine: the Novels of Richard Powers." Hastings Center
Report 26.3 (May, 1996-June 30, 1996): 17-20.
- Lindner, April. "Narrative As
Necessary Evil in Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul."
Critique 38 (Fall, 1996): 68-79.
- Pancake, Ann. "'The Wheel's Worst
Illusion': The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul."
Review of Contemporary Fiction 18.3 (Fall 1998): 72-83.
- Poirier, Suzanne.
"Operation Wanding Soul." Literature, Arts and Medicine
Database 37th edition. October 1999. Annotation/review of OWS.
- Otterspeer, Willem. "Zonder Benen
Dansend." NRC Handelsbrald. Date unknown.
- Thomas, J. D. "Powers’s Operation Wandering Soul." Explicator, Winter 2008, (66.2): 118-121. Abstract: A literary criticism of the book Operation Wandering Soul is presented. It explores Powers' portrayal of human suffering and choice of pediatric hospital ward as his setting. Also discussed is the attribution of aged qualities to young children in several of Powers' novels and the literal aging of the character Nicolino in Operation Wandering Soul.
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