Niven, Bill, review of Robert Atkins, Martin Kane, Retrospect and Review: Aspects of the Literature of the GDR 1976-1990, in Modern Language Review, 94.4 (1999), pp. 1162–63, doi:10.2307/3737319

Niven, Bill, review of Ian Wallace, Anna Seghers in Perspective, in Modern Language Review, 96.1 (2001), pp. 272–73, doi:10.2307/3735831

Niven, Bill, review of David Basker, Uwe Timm, in Modern Language Review, 96.4 (2001), pp. 1158–59, doi:10.2307/3735969

Niven, Bill, review of Debbie Pinfold, The Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature: The Eye among the Blind, in Modern Language Review, 97.4 (2002), pp. 1041–42, doi:10.2307/3738724

Niven, Bill, review of Jan-Werner Müller, Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity, in Modern Language Review, 97.4 (2002), pp. 1042–43, doi:10.2307/3738725

Niven, Bill, ‘Bernhard Schlink's "Der Vorleser" and the Problem of Shame’, in Modern Language Review, 98.2 (2003), pp. 381–96, doi:10.2307/3737818

Niven, Bill, review of Robert C. Reimer, Cultural History through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of the Third Reich, in Modern Language Review, 98.3 (2003), pp. 783–84, doi:10.2307/3738376

Niven, Bill, review of Geoffrey Westgate, Strategies under Surveillance: Reading Irmtraud Morgner as a GDR Writer, in Modern Language Review, 98.4 (2003), pp. 1060–61, doi:10.2307/3738033

Niven, Bill, review of Frank Thomas Grub, 'Wende' und 'Einheit' im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur: Ein Handbuch, in Modern Language Review, 100.2 (2005), pp. 570–72, doi:10.2307/3737697

Niven, Bill, review of Susanne Vees-Gulani, Trauma and Guilt: Literature of Wartime Bombing in Germany, in Modern Language Review, 101.1 (2006), pp. 296–97, doi:10.2307/3738486

Niven, Bill, review of Stephen Brockmann, German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour, in Modern Language Review, 101.4 (2006), pp. 1183–84, doi:10.2307/20467133

Niven, Bill, review of Stuart Parkes, Fritz Wefelmeyer, Seelenarbeit an Deutschland: Martin Walser in Perspective, in Modern Language Review, 102.2 (2007), pp. 584–85, doi:10.2307/20467393

Niven, Bill, review of Karl Klambauer, Österreichische Gedenkkultur zu Widerstand und Krieg. Denkmäler und Gedächtnisorte in Wien 1945 bis 1986, in From 'Ausgleich' to 'Jahrhundertwende': Literature and Culture, 1867–1890, ed. by Judith Beniston, Deborah Holmes and Robert Vilain (= Austrian Studies, 16 (2009)), pp. 230–32, doi:10.2307/27944899

Niven, Bill, review of Sara Jones, Towards a Collaborative Memory: German Memory Work in a Transnational Context, in Modern Language Review, 119.2 (2024), pp. 286–88, doi:10.1353/mlr.2024.a923583