[Reading list compiled by Isobelle Cherry in April 2022]
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Journalistic Articles
Armitstead, Claire, ‘Sally Rooney: “I don’t respond to authority very well”’, Guardian, 2 December 2018.
Baucina, Anastasia, ‘How Sally Rooney Gave Normal People Radical Politics’, Jacobin, 6 May 2020.
Brockes, Emma, ‘Sally Rooney on the hell of fame: “It doesn’t seem to work in any real way for anyone”’, Guardian, 28 August 2021.
Clark, Alex, ‘Interview with Sally Rooney’, Guardian, 25 August 2018.
Collins, Lauren, ‘SALLY ROONEY GETS IN YOUR HEAD’, New Yorker, 7 January 2019.
Crain, Caleb, ‘Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics’, The Atlantic, 10 August 2021.
Delistraty, Cody, ‘Sally Rooney’s Politics of Millenial Resignation’, Vulture, 11 April 2019.
Dineen, Rozalind, ‘Normal hypocrites: Sally Rooney reshuffles her pack’, Times Literary Supplement, 1 October 2021.
Enright, Anne, ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney review- the problem of success’, Guardian, 2 September 2021.
Evans, Diana, ‘Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You- conversations with fame’, Financial Times, 2 September 2021.
Garner, Dwight, ‘Sally Rooney’s “Normal People” Explores Intense Love Across Social Classes’, New York Times, 15 April 2019.
Grady, Constance, ‘The cult of Sally Rooney: How reading Sally Rooney became a status symbol’, Vox, 3 September 2019.
Hogeveen, Esmé, ‘Finding Meaning in Dire Times: Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You”’, Los Angeles Review of Books, 7 October 2021.
Jackson, Lauren Michele, ‘Sally Rooney Gets Outside of People’s Heads’, New Yorker, 10 September 2021.
Lorentzen, Christian, ‘I couldn’t live normally: What Sally did next’, London Review of Books, 23 September 2021.
Mars-Jones, Adam, ‘The First Time: Sally Rooney’, London Review of Books, 27 September 2018.
Nolan, Michael, ‘Interview with Sally Rooney’, Tangerine Magazine, 9 October 2017.
Pham, Yen, ‘Sally Rooney Wants to Start the Revolution: Speaking with the Conversations with Friends Author About Class and Care’, Literary Hub, 7 December 2017.
Rothfield, Becca, ‘Normal Novels’, The Point, 28 January 2019.
Schwartz, Madeleine, ‘How Should a Millennial Be? The novels of Sally Rooney’, New York Review, 18 April 2019.
Taylor, Brandon, ‘Sally Rooney’s Novel of Letters Puts a Fresh Spin on Familiar Questions’, New York Times, 7 September 2021.
Walsh, Joanna, ‘Sally Rooney and Joanna Walsh in Conversation’, Granta Magazine, 9 June 2019.
White, Hilary A., ‘I hate Yeats…how has he become this emblem of literary Irishness?’, Irish Independent, 28 May 2017.
Academic Articles
Barros del Río, María Amor, ‘Irish Youth, Materialism and Postfeminism: The Critique behind the Romance in “Normal People”’, Oceánide, 15 (2022), 73-80.
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Cameron, Olga Cox, ‘The persistence of passivity as foundational myth in women writing women in Ireland: a thread between mid-20th century repression and cutting edge millennialism’, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 25 (2020), 409-428.
Darling, Orlaith, ‘“It Was Our Great Generational Decision”: Capitalism, the Internet and Depersonalization in Some Millennial Irish Women’s Writing’, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 62.5 (2021), 538-551.
Gray, Madeleine, ‘Making Her Time (and Time Again): Feminist Phenomenology and Form in Recent British and Irish Fiction Written by Women’, Contemporary Women’s Writing, 14.1 (2020), 66-83.
'Reading Sally Rooney', cluster at Post45.
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Podcasts
‘Why do millennials love Sally Rooney?’, The Culture, Schwartz Media, 16 September 2021, podcast, Apple Podcasts.
