Reviews of DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP

1. Norm Fruchter, The Village Voice, February 11, 1971.
2. "Of Things to Come", by William McPherson, The Washington Post, October 30, 1970.
3. "Marge Piercy, Political Feminist", by Joan Henriksen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 29, 1970.
4. "Blowing in the Wind", by Raymond A. Sokolov, Newsweek, November 23, 1970.
5. "Dance the Eagle Down", The New Republic, John Seely, December 12, 1970.
6. "Bringing Back the Buffalo", by Todd Gitlin, The Nation, December 7, 1970.
7. "Hating the Hate Machine", Time, October 26, 1970. Review by John Skow.
8. "Written on Bandages" by John Leonard, Books of the Times, The New York Times, Oct. 23, 1970.
9. "Dance the Eagle to Sleep", Berkeley Tribe, September 7, 1970.
10. "Dance the Eagle to Sleep", by Natalie Petesch, The Metro, Vol. 4, No. 4, February 4-10, 1971.

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Reviews of GOING DOWN FAST

1. "A Detroiter's First Novel", by Fan G. Sauter, Detroit Free Press, November 30, 1969.
2. "Sex and Suicide in Chicago's Hyde Park", by Gary Houston, Chicago Sun Times, October 19, 1969.
3. "Books of the Times", by John Leonard, The New York Times, October 21, 1969.

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Reviews and criticism of SMALL CHANGES

1. Larry Blum, Radical Philosophers' Journal, II, March, 1974.
2. "How Women Change" by Stan Persky, Western Voice, 324 Powell Street, Vancouver, 4, B.C., December 4 - 18, 1974.
3. "Programmed in Man's Image" by Joan Henriksen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 5, 1973.
4. "The Women", Barbara Gold, Baltimore Sun, September 2, 1973.
5. "Books and People: The Cambridge Ladies", Laura Shapiro, The Real Paper, Oct. 17, 1973.
6. "Small Changes ... For a Change" by Janet Stone, The Somerville Times, October, 1973.
7. "Two Women" by Diane Schulder, The New Republic, October 27, 1973.
8. "The Havoc of Being Female" by Myrna Lamb, The Washington Post, September 27, 1973.
9. Mirian Palmer, The Second Wave, Fall, 1973.
10. "It's by a Woman, about Women ... and a Very Ruthless Book", by Janet Bajan, Majority Report, July 25, 1974.
11. "A Tale of Two Women", Elizabeth Schmidt, Sacramento Bee, September 16, 1973.
12. "Not Only the Male is Target" by Mary Walfoort, Milwaukee Journal, September 9, 1973.
13. "Two Women and Their Alternatives" by Peggy Padnos, The Grand Rapids Press, September 9, 1973.
14. "Small Changes: A Review" by Martha Shelley, Rough Times, Fall, 1973.
15. "Novel of Politics and Feminism in the '60's" by Poe Asher, San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, November 4, 1973.
16. Catharine R. Stimpson, The Nation, November 30, 1974.
17. Kristin Booth Glen, University Review, December, 1973.
18. Michele Clark, WIN Magazine, February 7, 1974.
19. Ellen Wexler, New Jersey News, September 4, 1973.
20. The Booklist, American Library Association, February 15, 1974.
21. "Marriage is - Death in Life?", Theadore M. O'Leary, Kansas City Star, August 19, 1973.
22. "Trapped", by Jackie Ross, The Hartford Courant, September 16, 1973.
23. "The Double Narrative Structure of SMALL CHANGES", by Elaine Tuttle Hansen CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS: Narrative Strategies, eds. Cathering Rainwater and William J. Scheick, UP of KY, 1985.
24. "Emissions and Emotions: Women's Blockbusters Speak Volumes", by Laurie Muchnick. A review of SMALL CHANGES,THE WOMEN'S ROOM, THE WAR BETWEEN THE TATES, MEMOIRS OF AN EX-PROM QUEEN.

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Criticism and Reviews of WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME

1. "Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy", by Celia Betsky, The New Republic, Oct. 9, 1976.
2. "Out of the Stacks `On the Edge of Time'" by Coral Brisingamen, Guest Columnist, The Vermont Reformer, September 1, 1976.
3. "Dramatic and Powerful, WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME by Marge Piercy", by Jackie Ross, The Hartford Courant, June 20, 1976.
4. "Woman on the Edge of Time", Mary Blewett, State and Mind, November-December, 1976.
5. "Where Does the Women's Movement Go from Here?", by Bea Gormley, Quincy, Massachusetts Patriot Ledger.
6. "Brave New World Revisited For Primitive Sophistication", by Leslie Ullman, A special reviewer, The Kansas City Star, August 15, 1976.
7. "A Woman on the Edge of Time", by Janet Stone, The Somerville Times, July, 1976.
8. "Feminist Fiction", by Karen Caviglia, New Women's Times, Rochester, NY, September, October 1976.
9. "Piercy novel contrasts present, Utopian future" by Duncan Mitchel, ids Guest Writer, Indiana Daily Student, Bloomington, IN, June 29, 1977.
10. "A New 1984". by Tommy Avicolli, GCN, September 18, 1976.
11. "Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy", by Virginia L. Anderson, Grand Rapids Press, 1976.
12. "Books" by Jane Howard, Mademoiselle, August, 1976.
13. "Questions society should answer to become civilized", by Gloria Kaufman, The South Bend Tribune, July 25, 1976.
14. "Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy", Jennifer K. Bankier, ORCA TWO, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March, 1978.
15. "Into the future", Gregor Preston, Daily World, State College, Pennsylvania, 8/27/76.
16. "She travels through time and talks down to earth", William J. Harding, Philadelphia Inquirer.
17. "Women's Fantasies and Feminist Utopias", Carol Pearson, FRONTIERS, Vol.II, No. 3, 1977, Women Studies Program, University of Colorado, Fall 1977.
18. "A Review of Woman on the Edge of Time", by Nancy Henley, Science for the People, January-February, 1977.
19. "Mattapoisett: 2137 A.D., a Review of Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, Michael Orth, Dept. of English, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, April, 1979.
20. "Madness and Utopia",by Jonathan Barry, THE BLUE BOOK: WINTHROP WRITERS, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 1978.
21. "Future vs. Present", by Margo Jefferson, Newsweek, June 7, 1976.
22. "Everything Happened", Carole Rosenthal, Villager.
23. "Tripping Out of Bellevue" by Nancy A. J. Potter, St. Louis Post Dispatcher.
24. "A blend of science fiction and realism in two worlds", by Karen Lindsey, The Boston Herald American, July 25, 1976.
25. "Woman on the Edge of Time", by Bob Frazier, SPReview
26. "On the Edge of Time", by Barbara Salsini, Milwaukee Journal.
27. "Shock Enough to Stun", by Nancy Sandrof, Worcester Sunday Telegram, June 13, 1976.
28. "The Last Word", by Emily Osborn, Ocooch Mountain News, Richland Center, Wisconsin, January, February, 1978.
29. "Book Review Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy", by Nicole d'Entremont.
30. "Feminist Science Fiction and Medical Ethics: Marge Piercy's WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME", by Anne Hudson Jones, from The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy: Critical Studies. Edited by Robert E. Myers., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.
31. "The Kinship Web: Joanna Russ's THE FEMALE MAN and Marge Piercy's WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME", in FEMINIST UTOPIAS, by Frances Bartkowski, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
32. "Dreaming the Future", by Hilary Rose, Hypatia, Vol.3, #1, Spring 1988.

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Reviews of THE HIGH COST OF LIVING

1. "Breaking Out", by Marsaili Cameron, Gay News, May 17, 1979.
2. "A Triangle Examined", Toledo Blade (no author listed), Feb. 19, 1979.
3. Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, January 19, 1978.
4. "Love and Despair in Detroit", by Marilyn French, Washington Post, January 29, 1978.
5. "The Lesbian, the Hustler, and the Dreamer", by Pat M. Kuras, Gay Community News, April 15, 1978.
6. Review in MS by Karen Lindsey, July, 1978.
7. "Sensitive Portraits", by Allison Platt, Sojourner, February, 1978.
8. "Emotional Pitfalls of the Lonely Life" by Carol A. Rosenberg, Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY, March 5, 1978.
9. "Triangular troubles and tremors", by Catherine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, February 26, 1978.
10. "Marge Piercy Finally Makes Us Care", John Askins, Detroit Free Press, January 22, 1978.
11. Review by Joanna Russ, Frontiers, Vol.3, #1, Fall, 1978.

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Reviews of THE LAST WHITE CLASS (co-authored with Ira Wood)

1. "Play examines Boston racism", by Judy Foreman, The Boston Globe, October 14, 1978.
2. Review of THE LAST WHITE CLASS, by Dan DiNicola for Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA, Ocotber 9, 1978.
3. "Behind the Issues", by Steve Turner, Valley Advocate, October 11, 1978.

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Reviews of VIDA

1. Review by Joan Henriksen, The Saga Weekly Post, no date.
2. Review by Carol Erlich, Social Anarchism, Vol.1, #2, October, 1980.
3. "After the Movement" by Elinor Langer, New York Times Book Review, 2/24/80.
4. "Vida's Vita: On the Road to Revolution" by Cynthia Macdonald, Washington Post Book World, January 27, 1980.
5. Review by Lore Dickstein in Saturday Review, January 19, 1980.
6. Review by Iris Rozencwajg in San Francisco Review of Books, May 1980.
7. "A feminist's novel of the sixties and seventies" by Jean Mills, Cape Cod Times, 4/20/80.
8. Review by Nancy Finke, Chicago Catalyst, May 15, 1980.
9. "`Vida': Hearing an Urgent Call from the Past" by Katherine Frank, Miami Herald, 2/24/80.
10. "Strong profile of modern woman" by Ann Silversides, Calgary Herald, April 12, 1980.
11. "Piercy: the underground life", by Lisa Tuttle, Houston Chronicle, February 24, 1980.
12. "Women Prevailing" by Joanne Duval, New Directions for Women, May/June 1980.
13. Review by Sylvia Rothchild, Boston Jewish Advocate, February 28, 1980.
14. "Underground" by Valerie Miner, Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 13, 1980.
15. "Feminist on the run: A pacifist turned terrorist", by E.M.Broner, Detroit News, 2/24/80.
16. Review by Thomas Williams, Chicago Bookworld, January 13, 1980.
17. "Surviving after the sixties" by Deidre Callahan, Equal Times, March 2, 1980.
18. "Novel On Underground: Realistic and Riveting" by Betty Lynn Compton, The State (Columbia, S.C.), Feb. 3, 1980.
19. "Compelling novel about the '60s-'70s", by Lynn Dunlap, Seattle Times Magazine, 3/30/80.
20. "A Unique Approach to the Vietnam War", by Paul F. Bauer, Chester County Press, 4/30/80

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Reviews of BRAIDED LIVES

1. "This feminist's refrain is also human", by Mary Jane Elkins, The Miami Herald, 3/7/82.
2. "Not So Happy Days" by Brina Caplan, The Nation, March 6, 1982.
3. Review in Library Journal by Julia L. Epstein, January 1, 1982.
4. "Traveling across the classes", by Valerie Miner,San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5/18/83.
5. Review in The New Yorker, February 22, 1982.
6. "Novelist with a poet's eye looks clearly at the '60s" by Marcie Hershman, Boston Globe, February 14, 1982.
7. "Novelist and Prophet" by Judith Paterson, Washington Book Review, April/May 1982.
8. "Piercy Still Spreading the Feminist Faith" by Mark McGrath in Hartford Courant, 3/17/82.
9. "Marge Piercy-poet and politician" by Gail Gilliland, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 3/21/82.
10. "To Be Young, Gifted and Female in the 1950s", by Nina King, Newsday, 2/8/82.
11. "In the '50s: A Sampling of Sexual Experience",by Doris Grumbach,Washington Post, February 7, 1982.
12. Review by Sarah Overstreet, Springfield Missouri News Leader, March 28, 1982.
13. "Piercy novel braids personal, political", by Ruthann Robson, Jacksonville Times-Union and Journal, March 21, 1982.
14. "An Intelligent and Serious Piece of Radical Fiction" by Christine Trotter, Pulp, Vol. 8, #2, Summer 1982.
15. "`Lives' unbraids the idyllic '50s" by Sheila Young Tomkowiak, Detroit Free Press, 2/28/82.
16. Review by Vickie Leonard in off our backs, April, 1982.

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Reviews of FLY AWAY HOME

1. "Marge Piercy and the candor of our fictions", by Valerie Miner, Christian Science Monitor, May 4, 1984.
2. "Knowing People" by Jane Berliss, Books From Borders, April/May 1984.
3. "A rare heroine liberates Piercy `detective story', by Alane Rollings, Chicago Tribune Bookworld, February 26, 1983.
4. "Your neighbor's life: Marge Piercy on middle-class agonies", by Eugene Kennedy, Chicago Sun-Times Book Week, February 21, 1984.
5. Review by Donna L. Nerboso, Library Journal, March 15, 1984.
6. "Suburban Housewife Makes Good", by Susan Mernit, Women's Review of Books, Vol. 1, #2, August 1984.
7. "Piercy on Fire in Novel Number Eight", by Ann Dermansky, New Directions for Women, March/April 1984.
8. "One woman's fight against disintegration", by Judy Bass, Boston Herald, Feb. 19, 1984.
9. "A broken heart emerges strong" by Sheila Young Tomkowiak, Detroit Free Press, 3/25/84.

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Reviews of GONE TO SOLDIERS

1. "The human face of a lost world in wartime", by Sue Standing, Boston Herald, 5/10/87.
2. "World War II Seen Through Private Lives" by Valerie Miner,New York Newsday, 6/4/87.
3. Review by Gloria Goldreich in Hadassah, June/July 1987.
4. "Details evoke World War II in Piercy's epic", by Nancy Pate, Tallahassee Democrat/Orlando Sentinel, May 17, 1987.
5. "An intimate epic of World War II", by Devon Jersild, USA Today, May 22, 1987.
6. "Piercy's big war", by Judith Wynn, Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1987.
7. "War emotions", (no author listed), Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 3, 1987.
8. "Piercy Takes On War; Piercy Wins", by Lynn Rosen, New Directions for Women, 10/87.
9. "Poet mesmerizes with epic WWII novel" by Barbara Holliday, Phoenix Republic 5/10/87.
10. "Ordinary people gone to war", by Steven E. Miller, Watertown Press/Cambridge Chronicle, and Somerville Journal-Weekender, February 11, 1988.
11. "Marge Piercy Makes War" by Dorothy Allison, Village Voice, May 19, 1987.
12. "A Braiding of Private Lives in a Terrible War" by Susan Griffin, San Francisco Sunday Examiner, June 14, 1987.
13. Letter to the editor from Joanna Russ, Women's Review of Books.
14. "A Great Novel that Examines the Great War" by Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times, 6/15/87.
15. "A rich weave of women, war, and world history" by Karen Lindsey, Middlesex News, 5/23/87.
16. "Taking On World War II" by Laura Shapiro, Newsweek, May 1987.
17. "Always riveting, seldom rosy" by Jean Blish Siers, Minnesota Daily, June 3, 1987.
18. "Marge Piercy's epic of war" by Nancy Connors, The Plain Dealer, June 14, 1987.

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Reviews of SUMMER PEOPLE

1. "Marge Piercy's SUMMER PEOPLE", by Ruthann Robson in Sojourner, October 1989.
2. "Piercy's compelling relationships", by Karen Lindsey, Middlesex News, July 30, 1989.
3. "A long, hot entertaining `Summer'", by Sally Kurtzman, Rocky Mountain News Sunday Magazine, August 13, 1989.
4. "Sharp points of love triangle", by Judith Wynn, The Boston Herald, Sunday, June 11, 1989.
5. Review of SUMMER PEOPLE, by Lori Marsh Goehring, Book Page New England Edition, July 1989.
6. "`SUMMER PEOPLE' ideal for season", by Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, July 5, 1989.
7. "When three becomes a crowd", by Thomas Mallon, Newsday, June 1989.
8. "Interlocked lives, neighbors, lovers clash on Cape Cod", by Joan Mooney, Baltimore Morning Sun, August 13, 1989.
9. "Love relationships cool down as `SUMMER PEOPLE' move in", by Laurel Vleck, Chicago Herald, July 30, 1989.
10. "New Piercy novel ready", by Jarie Stedman, The Advocate, May 25, 1989.
11. "A few diversions on the way to human fulfillment", by Suzanne Pekol for The Courier Mail, Brisbane, Australia, May 26, 1990.

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Reviews of HE, SHE AND IT

1. Review of HE, SHE AND IT, by T.A. Bergin, Calapooya Collage 16, August 1992.
2. "Complaining about PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT", by Marleen S. Barr for American Book Review, June-July 1992.
3. "After death, Asimov's legend continues to flourish", by Chuck Moss, L.A. Daily News, 4/26/92.
4. "Time warps", Gloria Goldreich, Hadassah Magazine, March 1992.
5. Review by John J. Pierce in Romantic Times, Issue #95, February 1992.
6. "Robojew", by Rochelle Furstenberg, The Jerusalem Report, Feb. 20, 1992.
7. "Piercy's new book blends history, fantasy", by Marion Vuilleumier for The Cape Cod Times, Sunday, Feb. 9, 1992.
8. "Mythology of the future: Marge Piercy's HE, SHE AND IT", by Julie Wilson, off our backs, Jan. 1992.
9. "A cyborg tale of mythic depth", by Darrell Schweitzer, The Boston Phoenix, Dec. 1991.
10. "Marge Piercy invents a strange new world", by Alison Bass, The Boston Globe, 10/17/91.
11. Review in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 29, 1991.
12. "HE, SHE AND IT: a Bold Look Into the Future, by Devon Jersild, L.A. Times, 12/26/91.
13. "Cyber Mating", by Eleanor Stein, Metroland, March 12-18, 1992.
14. "Myths of a Village World", by Gail Boyer, St. Louis Post, 10/13/91.
15. "Dual Tales Linked by Half-Human Heroes", by Marya Grambs and Marcia Freedman, San Francisco Chronicle, 12/15/91.
16. "Elegant science fiction tale about human truths", by John R. Alden, The Plain Dealer, 12/11/91.
17. "Marge Piercy's HE, SHE & IT", by Vara Neverow, presented at the Society of Utopian Studies Conference, November 1993.
18. "Creating Selves in Cyberspace: HE, SHE & IT", by June Deery, presented at the Society of Utopian Studies Conference, November 1993.
19. "Beyond the Wasteland: A Feminist in Cyberspace", by Peter Fitting, presented at the Society for Utopian Studies Conference, November 1993.
20. "From Cognitive Psychologies to Mythologies: Advancing Cyborg Textualities for a Narrative of Resistance", by William R. Macauley and Angel
J. Gordo-Lopez. Dept. of Psychology, University of Manchester. To appear in: C. H Gray et al (Eds) 1995, The Cyborg Handbook. London-New York, Routledge.
21. "Ectopic and Utopic Reproduction: HE, SHE AND IT. by June Deery.
Utopian Studies, Vol.5, No. 2; 1994
22. "Beyond the Wasteland: A Feminist in Cyberspace" by Peter Fitting. Utopian Studies,
Vol. 5, No. 2, 1994.
23. "Cyborgs, Sorcery and the Struggle for Utopia", by Helen A. Kuryllo, Utopian Studies,
Vol. 5, No. 2,1994.

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Reviews of BODY OF GLASS [(Michael Joseph, UK,),published in U.S as HE, SHE AND IT]

1. Review by David V. Barrett in City Limits, July2-9. 1992.
2. Review by Chris Amies in Vector 167, June/July 1992.
3. Review by Kate Saunders in Cosmopolitan, April 1992.
4. "High heels and hi-tech in a brutal fictional world", by Rosemary Bailey, The Independent, May 19, 1992.

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Reviews and Criticism of Piercy Poetry

"Alta on Marge Piercy's TO BE OF USE and SMALL CHANGES", New: American and Canadian Poetry, Spring, 1974.
Review of HARD LOVING by Renee Watkins, New: American and Canadian Poetry, No. 11, 1969.
Review of BREAKING CAMP, Time Magazine, January 24, 1969.
Review of BREAKING CAMP and HARD LOVING, Womankind, May - June 1971, Vol.1 No. 1, by Natalie Petesch.
Review of HARD LOVING by Victor Contoski, Sumac, Vol. 2, No IV, Fall, 1970.
TO BE OF USE review, The Second Wave, Spring, 1974, by Karen Lindsey.
TO BE OF USE review, by Lucas Carpenter, Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier, 11/18/73.
TO BE OF USE, Parade of Books, King Features Synd., February 17, 1974.
TO BE OF USE review, by John S. Flagg, Spring, 1974 issue of Open Places.
General poetry review by Stephen Dobyns, New: American and Canadian Poetry, September, 1968, No. 7.
Review of BREAKING CAMP by Mary Williams ward and Dorothy Diacon, Daily News, Wellington, Kansas, May 3, 1968.
Review of poetry by Christine Duewell, Off Our Backs, November, 1971.
Review of BREAKING CAMP by Jane Calville Betts, Minnesota Review, Vol.IX No. 1, 1969.
Review by June Jordan of BREAKING CAMP, HARD LOVING, TO BE OF USE, in "The Black Poet Speaks of Poetry", American Poetry Review, April, 1975.
TO BE OF USE, by Susan Lox Efros and Mark Halliday, The Feminist Art Journal, Summer, 1974.
Review of TO BE OF USE, by Marie Harris, Parnasus: Poetry in Review, Fall-Winter, 1974.
General poetry review by Sheila McKenna, "Ninth Annual Poetry Awards",PLA (Post Library Association) Report, Spring, 1975.
Review of CIRCLES ON THE WATER by Margaret Atwood, New York Times, August 8, 1982.
Review of CIRCLES ON THE WATER by Carolyn Kizer, The Washington Post, May 30, 1982.
Reviews of CIRCLES ON THE WATER by Mary Mackey and Don McClelland, San Francisco Review, May 16, 1982.
Review of CIRCLES ON THE WATER by Sue Walker, Negative Capability, Vol.2, #3, Summer, 1982.
Reviews of CIRCLES ON THE WATER by Ruthann Robson in Kalliope, Vol.5, #1, 1983. Also Jacksonville Journal, July 18, 1982.
Review of THE TWELVE-SPOKED WHEEL FLASHING by Almitra David, Country Journal, no date.
Review of THE TWELVE-SPOKED WHEEL FLASHING by E.M. Broner, New Women's Times Feminist Review, November, 1978.
Review of THE TWELVE-SPOKED WHEEL FLASHING by Victor Howes in Christian Science Monitor, May 15, 1978.
Review of THE TWELVE SPOKED WHEEL FLASHING by Charles Molesworth, New York Times Book Review, November 26, 1978.
Review of THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE by Laurel Smith, Barnwood, Summer, 1982.
Review of THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE by Ron Schreiber, American Book Review, Vol. 4, #3, March/April 1982.
Review of THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE by Anne Stevenson, London Times Literary Supplement, no date.
Review of THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE by Robin Lippincott, Gay Community News, October, 1980.
Review of THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE by Christina Robb, Boston Globe, no date.
Review of THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE by Mary Mackey, Plexus, July, 1980.
"Marge Piercy's THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE: Feminist Text, Great Books Context", by Felicia Mitchell, Virginia English Bulletin, Volume 40, Number 2, Fall 1990.
Review of STONE, PAPER, KNIFE, Publishers Weekly, January 7, 1983.
Review of STONE, PAPER, KNIFE, by Christina Robb,Boston Globe, March 25, 1982.
Review of STONE, PAPER, KNIFE by Joyce Nower, The Longest Revolution, August/September 1983.
Review of MY MOTHER'S BODY by Leslie Adrienne Miller, Open Places, #40, Fall/Winter 1985.
Review of MY MOTHER'S BODY by Christina Robb, Boston Globe, March 29, 1985.
Review of MY MOTHER'S BODY by David Hilton, Baltimore Sun, no date.
Review of MY MOTHER'S BODY by Emily Leider, San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 1985.
Review of MY MOTHER'S BODY by Denise Low, Kansas City Star, Aug. 4, 1985.
Review of AVAILABLE LIGHT by David Profumo, London Times Literary Supplement, 12/11/88.
Review of AVAILABLE LIGHT by Karen Lindsey, Middlesex News, May 8, 1988.
Review of AVAILABLE LIGHT by Rochelle Ratner, Library Journal, March 15, 1988.
Review of AVAILABLE LIGHT in Publishers Weekly, February 5, 1988.
Review of AVAILABLE LIGHT by Diane Wakoski in Women's Review of Books, Vol.5, #10-11, July 1988.
Review of AVAILABLE LIGHT by William Pitt Root, St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1988.
Review of AVAILABLE LIGHT by Miriam Marty Clark, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 3, 1988.
Review of THE EARTH SHINES SECRETLY: A Book of Days, by Dan Quinn, Cape Cod Antique & Arts, July 1990.
"Piercy's poems a lyrical look at the usual", MARS AND HER CHILDREN by Marion Vuilleumier, The Cape Cod Times, Sunday, July 12, 1992.
Review of MARS AND HER CHILDREN by Karen Prager for Lilith, Summer 1992, p.35.
Review of MARS AND HER CHILDREN by Donna Seaman for Booklist, March 15, 1992.
"The Arc of the Covenant", review of MARS AND HER CHILDREN by Katharyn Howd Machan, The Bookpress, Ithaca, NY, August 1992.
"Strong Women as Archetypes", review of MARS AND HER CHILDREN, by Rosie Rosenzweig, Neshama, Winter 1992, Vol.4, Number 4.
"Grabbing the Gusto' Marge Piercy's Poetry", by Jerome Judson. Writer's Digest, 61, 1981.
"You Are Your Own Magician: A Vision of Integrity in the Poetry of Marge Piercy", by Jean Rosenbaum. Modern Poetry Studies, 8, 1977.
WOMEN AS MYTHMAKERS: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women, by Estella Lauter, Indiana U. Press, 1984.
"Amber Mayflies of the Moment: A Brief Introduction to Marge Piercy and her poems", editors Outlet, Loras College, 1993, p.1-3.
"Imagery of Association in the Poetry of Marge Piercy," by Edith J. Wynne, Publications of the Missouri Philological Association, 1985.

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Critical works on and including Marge Piercy:

"Marge Piercy: A Collage" by Nancy Scholar Zee, Oyez review, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1975.(GOING DOWN FAST, DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP, SMALL CHANGES)
Discussion in WRITING BEYOND THE ENDING: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
"Women and Science Fiction Possible Futures" by Ginny Rankin, The Second Wave, Summer/Fall, 1978.
"Three Women's Perspectives on Gender and Alternative Societies", by Sherri L. File, 1979.
"The Double Narrative Structure of SMALL CHANGES" in CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, ed. by Catherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick, The University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
"The Androgynous Vision in the Novels of Marge Piercy", M.A. Thesis by John Theodore Empey, University of Texas at Arlington, 1979. (GOING DOWN FAST, DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP, SMALL CHANGES, WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME, THE HIGH COST OF LIVING).
"Feminist Expression: Escaping Women's Oppression in Language in Three Marge Piercy Novels", Senior Essay by Lauren B. Fogel, April 17, 1987.
"The Ecology of Alchemy, or, Recycling, Reclamation, Transformation in Marge Piercy, Tess Gallagher, Alice Walker, Susan Griffin,... in AN ALCHEMY OF GENRES: Cross-Genre Writing by American Feminist Poet-Critics, by Diane P. Freedman, University Press of Virginia, 1992.
"Marge Piercy: A Character Study", no author listed, Cleveland Edition, Sept.6-12, 1984.
"In and Out of Time: The Form of Marge Piercy's Novels", by Susan Kress in FUTURE FEMALES: A Critical Anthology, ed. by Marlene Barr, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.
"Women's Writing / Male Subjects", by Ruthann Robson, Kalliope, Vol.9, No.3, 1987.
"Imagining Our Lives", by Bettina Aptheker, woman of power, Issue Sixteen.
"Making a Literary Lunge Into the Future", by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times `Critics Notebook', Feb. 21, 1992.
"Marge Piercy and the American Feminist Movement in the Last Ten Years from Her Novel Small Changes, M.A. Thesis for the Universite de Paris by Pamela Gartshore, 1976.
"Marge Piercy: A Poet For All Seasons", by Ellen Mark Frank, paper for M.A. Oral Presentation/Creative Writing Dept., San Francisco State University, Sept. 26, 1990.
WAYS OF KNOWING: Essays on Marge Piercy, edited by Sue Walker and Eugenie Hamner, Negative Capability Press, Mobile, AL, 1991.
"Recent Feminist Utopias" by Joanna Russ, Future Females, ed. Marlene S. Barr, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1981.
"Women's Worlds: New Directions in Utopian Fiction", by Lee Khanna, Alternative Futures, ed. Alexander Aldridge and Marthalee Barton, Vol. 4, #23, Summer 1981.
"The Dialectics of Power: Utopia in the Science Fiction of Le Guin, Jeury, and Piercy", by Nadia Khouri, Science-Fiction Studies: #20, Vol.4, #23, Summer 1981.
"New Worlds, New Words: Androgyny in Feminist Science Fiction", Pamela J. Annas, Science- Fiction Studies 5, 1978.
"Marge Piercy: American Josei Renaissance no Gunzo 2", by Ikuko Atsumi, Eigo Seinen 122, 1976.
"Piercy, Marge", by Jane Augustine, CONTEMPORARY POETS., eds. James Vinson and D.L. Kirkpatrick, 4th ed., St. Martins, NY, 1985.
ALIEN TO FEMININITY: Speculative Ficiton and Feminist Theory, by Marleen S. Barr, Greenwood, 1987.
"Marge Piercy and Ann Beattie", by Pearl K. Bell, Commentary 70, 1980.
"Ambivalence in Utopia". WRITING WOMAN: Woman Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern, by Sheila Delany, Schocken, NY, 1983.
"The Feminist Apologues of Lessing, Piercy, and Russ", by Rachel Blau Dupless in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 4, 1979.
"The Politics of Fantasy in Recent American Women's Novels", by Gisela Ecker, Englisch- Amerikanische Studien 6, 1984.
IMAGES OF WOMEN IN LITERATURE, 4th ed., by Mary Anne Ferguson, Houghton, Boston, 1986.
"Dreams of Freedom: Ideology and Narrative Structure in the Utopian Fictions of Marge Piercy and Ursula LeGuin", by Chris Ferns, English Studies in Canada, 14:4, 1988.
"Women on the Edge of Narrative: Language in Marge Piercy's Utopia", by David L. Foster. PATTERNS OF THE FANTASTIC, ed. by Doanld M. Hassler, Starmont House, WA, 1983 "World Views in Utopian Novels by Women", by Lucy M. Freibert, Journal of Popular Culture 17, 1983.
FEMINIST FABULATION: Space/Postmodern Fiction, by Marleen S. Barr, U of Iowa Press, 1992.
IN THE SINGER'S TEMPLE: Prose Ficton of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski. Jack Hicks, U of North Carolina Press, 1981.
"Mixing Art and Politics: The Writings of Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, and Alice Walker", by Nan Nowik. Centenniel Review, 30, 1986.
"The Utopian Novels of Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and Marge Piercy", by Carol S. Pearson. HERESIES, 4, 1981.
LILITH'S DAUGHTERS: Women and Religion in Contemporary Fiction, by Barbara Hill Rigney. U of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
FEMINIST FUTURES: Contemporary Women's Speculative Fiction, by Natalie Rosindky. UMI Research, 1984.
LOST IN SPACE: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, by Marleen S.Barr, The Univ. of No. Carolina Press, 1993.
Mothers Tomorrow and Mothers Yesterday, But Never Mothers Today: Woman on the Edge of Time and The Handmaid's Tale, by Ealine Tuttle Hansen, NARRATING MOTHERS: THEORIZING MATERNAL SUBJECTIVITIES, ed. Brenda O. Daly and Maureen T. Reddy, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1991.
"More Than Ideal: Size and Weight Obsessions in Literary Works by Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood and Andre Dubus," by Elizabeth G. Peck, Platte Valley Review, Winter 1990.
Pat Doherty, MARGE PIERCY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Greenwood Press, 1997

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