Baym, Nina, review of A. Robert Lee, Nineteenth-Century American Poetry; Barton Levi St. Armand, Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society, in Modern Language Review, 83.3 (1988), pp. 694–96, doi:10.2307/3731324

Baym, Nina, review of Sharon Cameron, Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's 'Journal', in Modern Language Review, 83.3 (1988), pp. 696–97, doi:10.2307/3731325

Baym, Nina, review of Mary Boykin Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries, in Modern Language Review, 83.3 (1988), pp. 699–700, doi:10.2307/3731327

Baym, Nina, review of Mary V. Dearborn, Pocahontas's Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture, in Modern Language Review, 83.4 (1988), pp. 996–97, doi:10.2307/3730952

Baym, Nina, review of Gordon Hutner, Secrets and Sympathy: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthorne's Novels, in Modern Language Review, 85.3 (1990), pp. 712–13, doi:10.2307/3732236