Pifer, Ellen, review of Craig Hansen Werner, Paradoxical Resolutions: American Fiction since James Joyce, in British Poetry since 1945, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 17.1 (1987)), pp. 353–55, doi:10.2307/3507749

Pifer, Ellen, review of John W. Aldridge, The American Novel and the Way We Live Now, in Modern Language Review, 82.4 (1987), pp. 942–44, doi:10.2307/3729080

Pifer, Ellen, review of Jeffrey Berman, The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis, in Modern Language Review, 83.3 (1988), pp. 653–54, doi:10.2307/3731296

Pifer, Ellen, review of Peter Griffin, Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years; Michael Reynolds, The Young Hemingway, in The French Revolution in English Literature and Art, ed. by J. R. Watson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 19.1 (1989)), pp. 351–53, doi:10.2307/3508096