A selective list of online literary criticism for Pakistani author Hanif Kureishi, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages
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Cone, Annabelle. "The Politics of Intimacy in Hanif Kureishi's Films and Fiction," Literature/Film Quarterly, 2004. "Hanif Kureishi navigates freely between the written genre and the filmed genre, from screenplay to film or novel to television, finding his written works often translated to the big screen (My Beautiful Laundrette [Frears, 1985], Sammy and Rosie Get Laid [Frears, 1987], My Son the Fanatic [Prasad, 1997]) or turned into television adaptations (The Buddha of Suburbia [BBC, 1993])."
Holmes, Frederick M. "The postcolonial subject divided between East and West: Kureishi's The Black Album as an intertext of Rushdie's The Satanic Verses," Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2001
Jacobson, Brad K. A short review of Kureishi's novel, Intimacy. Reviewed in Rain Taxi, summer 1999
Kerr, Philip. A review of the film version of Intimacy, "Too close for comfort," in New Statesman, August 13, 2001 (taken offline)
Moore-Gilbert, Bart. An introduction to Hanif Kureishi from the Literary Encyclopedia, 08 January 2001 On My Beautiful Laundrette (1985); The Buddha of Suburbia (1990); The Black Album (1995)
Winder, Robert. A review of Voice Of The Crossing, edited by Ferdinand Dennis and Nassem Khan. In New Statesman, March 13, 2000 reviewed by Robert Winder. "The editors of Voice of the Crossing, a fine anthology of 14 memoirs by writers from Africa, the Caribbean, India and Pakistan, are keen to emphasise that the writers share a "creative predicament", as if they all found themselves locked up in the same grisly prison cell."
The official Hanif Kueishi web site, with links to his short stories, essays, and more
An introduction to Hanif Kueishi at the Literary Encyclopedia, by Bart Moore-Gilbert, University of London.
A short introduction to the Pakistani-British author Hanif Kureishi, which includes a bibliography, from the postcolonial writers project at Emory University.
"The Legitimising of His/Her-stories in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia," by Graciela Moreira Slepoy, Postgraduate Student, Laval University, at George Landow's Postimperial web site (taken offline)
"A Guide to the Characters in The Buddha of Suburbia," student-authored, at George Landow's Postimperial web site (taken offline)
A review of Intimacy (2000) at Kenan Malik.com
A filmography of Kureishi from the Internet Movie Database
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