A selective list of literary criticism for E.M. Forster, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages
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Borsh, Frank. "Information Technology New and Old: James Patrick Kelly's Big Guy and E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops," in EESE 11/1996
Caporaletti, Silvana. "The thematization of time in E.M. Forster's 'The Eternal Moment' and [James] Joyce's 'The Dead.'" Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 1997
Childs, Peter. A substantial introduction to E.M. Forster, from the Literary Encyclopedia. On Where Angels Fear to Tread; On Room with a View ; On A Passage to India
Christensen, Timothy. "Bearing the White Man's Burden: Misrecognition and Cultural Difference in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India" [India and the Problem of Representation in A Passage to India]. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 2006
Da Silva, Stephen. "Transvaluing immaturity: reverse discourses of male homosexuality in E.M. Forster's posthumously published fiction." Forster's authorial strategies for both affirming and challenging the association of immaturity and homosexuality. Criticism, Spring, 1998
Dorland, Tamera. "Contrary to the prevailing current?" Homoeroticism and the voice of maternal law in Forster's "The Other Boat." Style, Fall, 1995
Heath, Jeffrey. "A Voluntary Surrender: Imperialism and Imagination in A Passage to India," Univ. of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 59 No. 2, (Winter 1987/8)
Hoffman, Michael J. Ann Ter Haar. "Whose books once influenced mine": the relationship between E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves.'" Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1999
May, Brian. "Neoliberalism in Rorty and Forster," [philosopher Richard Rorty and E.M. Forster] Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 1993
Morley, Sheridan. "Through Indian eyes," on two very different journeys into the history of the Indian subcontinent: A Passage to India and Midnight's Children. New Statesman, Feb 17, 2003 [E.M. Forster, Salman Rushdie]
Perkowitz, Sidney. "Connecting with E.M. Forster" An essay in The American Prospect takes its starting point from Forster's The Machine Stops to ask if technology brings people closer together or isolates
Seabury, Marcia Bundy. "Images of a networked society: E.M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1997
Spurr, Barry. Article on the Bloomsbury Group (1904-1939), whose members included the novelist Virginia Woolf, her sister the artist Vanessa Bell, Virginia's husband the writer Leonard Woolf, the artist Duncan Grant, the art critic Roger Fry, E. M. Forster, and the biographer Lytton Strachey.
Stone, Wilfred. "Some Interviews with E. M. Forster," Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1997
White, Leslie. "Vital disconnection in Howards End." In Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 2005
Womack, Kenneth. "'Only connecting' with the family: class, culture, and narrative therapy in E.M. Forster's 'Howards End.'" Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism, Style, Summer, 1997
A web site on E.M. Forster from the (UK) Guardian, with links to classic Guardian reviews, from the turn of the century, of Forster's novels, along with more recent criticism
"Forster's Cynicism," a 1905 review of Where Angels Fear to Tread in the (UK) Guardian, August 30, 1905
A 1924 review of A Passage to India from the (UK) Guardian, from June 20, 1924
"Naipaul derides novels of Forster, 'a nasty homosexual'" by Paul Kelso, August 2, 2001, The Guardian. Kelso says of Naipaul, "asked whether Forster had contributed anything to the understanding of India, Naipaul was withering. 'He encouraged people to lie. He was somebody who didn't know Indian people. He just knew the court and a few middle class Indians and the garden boys whom he wished to seduce.'"
A overview of themes in A Passage to India, from the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education
A listing of the E.M. Forster documents in the collection at Kings College, Cambridge
A charming web site explores E.M. Forster's India. Created by a high school class and their Fulbright-Hays winning teacher after the teacher's visit to India
A review of the 1992 film version of Howards End, from the Washington Post
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