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'''Criticism of VGL'''
*Times Online, "Hot or what? D. B. C. Pierre", November 16, 2002
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3588375/An-heir-for-Holden-Caulfield.html The Telegraph, "An heir for Holden Caulfield", By Jasper Rees, 10 Jan 2003] (1190 words, interview-review)
*Times Online, "The accused", January 18, 2003
*[http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2003/story/0,13819,1019831,00.html The Guardian, "Lone star", Carrie O'Grady, Saturday January 18, 2003] (678 words)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jan/19/fiction.features2 The Observer, "Growing up with Jesus", Jonathan Heawood, Sunday 19 January 2003] (702)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jan/19/fiction.features The Observer, "You'll die laughing", Sean O'Hagan, Sunday 19 January 2003] (1204 words, interview-review)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/feb/01/digestedread.bookerprize2003 The Guardian, "Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre: Condensed in the style of the original", Saturday 1 February 2003] (parody/review, 415 words)
*The Independent, "Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre: A Huckleberry Finn for the Eminem generation", By Marianne Brace, Monday, 3 February 2003
*Times Online, Times Literary Supplement, "Vernon God Little", Nick Seddon, February 7, 2003
*The Sunday Times, "Review: Fiction: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre", Hugo Barnacle, February 23, 2003
*[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/14/1047583693486.html The Sydney Morning Herald, "Vernon God Little", Andrew Laing, March 15 2003] (500 words)
*Spectator, "Recent first novels", Venetia Ansell, Oct 11, 2003
*[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/27/031027crbo_books1 The New Yorker, "Showtime: A Booker Prize winner reimagines America", by Joyce Carol Oates, October 27, 2003] (1253 words)
*[http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1104/p14s03-bogn.html The Christian Science Monitor, "Columbine dominates Europe's concept of US", Ron Charles, from the November 04, 2003 edition] (852 words)
*[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1006060,00.html?promoid=googlep Time, "Writer Wrong", By Lev Grossman Monday, Nov. 03, 2003] (352 words)
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/05/books/books-of-the-times-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas-via-australia.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Michiko Kakutani, "Deep in the Heart of Texas (Via Australia)", The New York Times, November 05, 2003] (802 words)
*[http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2003/11/06/shootings/index.html Salon.com, "Furriners go nuts for gun-totin' Yanks!", Laura Miller, Nov 6, 2003] (1573 words)
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/books/holden-caulfield-on-ritalin.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm The New York Times, "Holden Caulfield on Ritalin", Sam Sifton , November 9, 2003] (1145 words)
*[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n22/james-wood/the-lie-world James Wood, "The Lie-World", London Review of Books 25. 22 (20 November 2003): 25] (2130 words)
*Anthony Daniels. "Booker vs. Goncourt; or, When Silence Is a Duty." New Criterion 22.5 (Jan. 2004): 24-27. [http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Booker-vs--Goncourt--or--when-silence-is-a-duty-1601]
*The Sunday Times, Pick of the week, "Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre", Trevor Lewis, May 2, 2004
*Katsuaki Watanabe. Bukkā-shō to sumōrutaun Tekisasu. Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 150.3 (June 2004): p162.
*[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/independent-book-group-vernon-god-little-by-dbc-pierre-6168494.html The Independent, "Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre", Boyd Tonkin, Literary Editor, Friday, 4 June 2004] (321 words, book group review)
*The Independent, "Not worthy of a Booker win, but one of a kind", John Walsh, Friday, 2 July 2004 (book group review)
*Norment, Lee. "A boy in trouble." Texas Books in Review 24.2-3 (2004): 23. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Mar. 2012.
*Havely, Cicely Palser. "Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little was the winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Although its author is not American, this intricate and disturbing novel can be compared with many American classics. Cicely Palser Havely suggests you read it while it is still fresh." The English Review Sept. 2004: 16+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Mar. 2012.
*Gillian Fenwick. "Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre." Booker Prize Novels: 1969-2005. Ed. Merritt Moseley. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2006. 342-347. Dictionary of Literary Biography  326. 
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/nov/18/featuresreviews.guardianreview17 John Mullan, "Talk this way", The Guardian, Saturday 18 November 2006] (661 words)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/nov/25/featuresreviews.guardianreview1?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 John Mullan, "National lampoon", The Guardian, Saturday 25 November 2006] (730 words)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/dec/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview2 John Mullan, "Trial & error", The Guardian, Saturday 2 December 2006] (791 words)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/dec/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview1?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 John Mullan, "Poetic justification", The Guardian, Saturday 9 December 2006] (784 words)
*Maria De Pilar Blanco. "DBC Pierre's Blood Meridian: Cosmopolitan Returns and the Imagination of History." Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 11.1 (Apr. 2007): p59-74.
*Göran Nieragden. "Thank You, Holden Caulfield, and Goodbye: Fresh Ideas for Teaching Adolescent(s) Fiction-the What and the How." English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 91.5 (Aug. 2010): 567-578.
*Himansu S. Mohapatra. "The Real within the Hyper-Real: Identity and Social Location in Vernon God Little." Ravenshaw Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 1.1 (Winter 2011): 67-77. [http://ravenshawuniversity.ac.in/File/RJLCS%202011.pdf]

  
'''Criticism of CI'''
*The Independent, 20 Jul 2002, the Literator, "Cover Stories". (short)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jul/20/featuresreviews.guardianreview23 The Guardian, 20 Jul 2002, Nicholas Clee, "The Bookseller".] (103 words, short on cross-over)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/aug/01/news Guardian co.uk, 1 Aug 2002, Staff and Agencies, "Brad Pitt seeks rights to British novel".] (125 words, short on film)
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=20030428&id=FUAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y3sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3379,5946377 The Times, 23 Apr 2003, Douglas Kennedy, "The Spectrum Within".] (review)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/apr/27/fiction.guardianchildrensfictionprize2003 The Observer, 27 Apr 2003, Kate Kellaway, "Autistic Differences".] (1960 words, interview-review)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/may/10/featuresreviews.guardianreview34 The Guardian, 10 May 2003, Nicholas Clee, "The Bookseller".] (114 words, short)
*[http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/politics/all/20554/much-more-than-a-handful.thtml The Spectator, 17 May 2003, Nicholas Barrow, "It Ain't Necessarily So".] (105 words, review)
*The Sunday Times, 18 May 2003, Hugo Barnacle, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by mark Haddon". (review)
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3594833/The-boy-who-could-not-tell-a-lie.html The Telegraph, 20 May 2003, Carol Ann Duffy, "The Boy Who Could Not Tell a Lie".] (697 words, review)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/may/24/booksforchildrenandteenagers.bookerprize2003 The Guardian, 24 May 2003, Charlotte Moore, "Just the facts, ma'am".] (571 words, review)
*The Independent, 6 Jun 2003, Christopher Fowler, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon". (summer fiction review)
*[http://www.salon.com/2003/06/12/haddon/ Salon.com, 12 Jun 2003, Laura Miller, "'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Time' by Mark Haddon".] (757 words)
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/books/books-of-the-times-math-and-physics-a-cinch-people-incomprehensible.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm The New York Times, 13 Jun 2003, Michiko Kakutani, "Math and Physics? A Cinch. People? Incomprehensible."] (795 words, review)
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/books/the-remains-of-the-dog.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm The New York Times Book Review, 15 Jun 2003, Jay McInerney, "The Remains of the Dog", 108:5.] (1076 words, review)
*[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/22/RV175562.DTL SFGate.com, 22 Jun 2003, Kate Washington, "Detached Detective: Autistic Teen Sets Out to Solve a Mystery, Finds Much More".] (789 words, review)
*[http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-07-22/books/auto-focus/ The Village Voice, 22 July 2003, Dennis Lim, "Auto Focus: Strange Ways, Here We Come".] (1169 words, review)
*[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/08/04/030804crbn_brieflynoted3 "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, The New Yorker", August 4, 2003] (157 words)
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A31894-2003Aug7 The Washington Post, 10 Aug 2003, Nani Power, "Feeling His Way".] (902 words, review)
*[http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n19/eleanor-birne/doing-chatting Eleanor Birne, "Doing Chatting", London Review of Books 25. 19 (9 October 2003): 14] (2199 words)
*[http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/?pa=reviews&sa=viewBookPF&bookId=68360 Maria G. Fung, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time." Mathematical Association of America, 12.12.2003]
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/jan/29/whitbreadbookawards2003.costabookaward Guardian, "A journey to shock and enlighten", William Schofield, Thursday 29 January 2004] (540 words, paperback review)
*The Sunday Times, 28 Mar 2004, Alex Clark, "Pick of the Week: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon". (paperback review)
*The Independent, 28 Mar 2004, Murrough O'Brien, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon". (paperback review)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/apr/24/fiction.markhaddon John Mullan, "Through Innocent Eyes", The Guardian, 24 Apr 2004] (685 words)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/may/01/featuresreviews.guardianreview28 John Mullan, "Expletives Not Deleted", The Guardian, 1 May 2004] (701 words)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/may/08/markhaddon John Mullan, "Letters Patent", The Guardian, 8 May 2004] (703 words)
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/may/15/fiction.markhaddon John Mullan, "Funny Old World", The Guardian, 15 May 2004] (680 words)
*[http://www.ams.org/notices/200603/rev-aslaksen.pdf Helmer Aslaksen, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". American Mathematical Society 53.3 (Mar 2006): 343-345.]
*Vivienne Muller. Constituting Christopher: Disability Theory and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 16.2 (Dec. 2006): 118-125.
*Andrej Adam. Epistemološki problem v knjigi skrivnostni primer li kdo je umoril psa. Otrok in Knjiga/The Child and Book: Revija za Vprašanja Mladinske Književnosti, Knjiz1707evne Vzgoje in s Knjigo Povezanih Medijev/The Journal of Issues Relating to Children's Literature, Literary Education and the Media Connected with Books 68 (2007): 34-45.
*Clare Walsh and John McRae. Schema Poetics and Crossover Fiction. Contemporary Stylistics. Ed. Marina Lambrou and Peter Stockwell. London, England: Continuum, 2007. 106-117.
*Caroline Marie and Christelle Reggiani. Portrait of the Artist as a Mathematician. Journal of Romance Studies 7.3 (Winter 2007): p101-10.
*James Berger. Aleterity and Autism: Mark Haddon's Curious Incident in the Neurological Spectrum. Autism and Representation. Ed. Mark Osteen. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. 271-288.
*Chris Richards. Forever Young: Essays on Young Adult Fictions. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2008. Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives  20.  New York, NY.
*Gyasi Burks-Abbott. Mark Haddon's Popularity and the Curious Incidents in My Life as an Autistic. Autism and Representation. Ed. Mark Osteen. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. p289-296.
*Alana M. Vincent. Putting Away Childish Things: Incidents of Recovery in Tolkien and Haddon. Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 26.3-4 [101-102] (Spring-Summer 2008): p101-116.
*Stephan Freißmann. A Tale of Autistic Experience: Knowing, Living, Telling in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 6.2 (June 2008): p395-417.  Word Count: 151.
*Till Kinzel and Bianca Schwindt. Mark Haddons The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time als Lektüre in der Sekundarstufe I. Literaturdidaktik und Literaturvermittlung im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe I. Ed. Jan Hollm. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher, 2009. 157-168.
*Stefania Ciocia. Postmodern Investigations: The Case of Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Children's Literature in Education: An International Quarterly 40.4 (Dec. 2009): 320-332.
*Nicola Allen. 'The Perfect Hero for His Age': Christopher Boone and the Role of Logic in the Boy Detective Narrative. The Boy Detectives: Essays on the Hardy Boys and Others. Ed. Michael G. Cornelius. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 167-179.
*Milda Danytė. Tarp teksto ir vaizdo: Šiuolaikinio iliustruoto romano pavyzdžiai. Acta Humanitarica Universitatis Saulensis 11 (2010): 81-90.
*Christiana Gregoriou. The Poetics of Deviance and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010. Ed. Malcah Effron and Stephen Knight. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 97-111.