Birch, David, review of A. W. McHoul, Telling How Texts Talk: Essays on Reading and Ethnomethodology, in Modern Language Review, 81.1 (1986), pp. 155–57, doi:10.2307/3728775

Birch, David, review of Balz Engler, Reading and Listening: The Modes of Communicating Poetry and Their Influence on the Texts, in Literary Periodicals, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 16.1 (1986)), p. 221, doi:10.2307/3507777

Birch, David, review of James J. Murphy, The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing, in Modern Language Review, 81.3 (1986), pp. 732–33, doi:10.2307/3729222