Scholarship and criticism on Doris Lessing
- Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg.
- "The Marriage of Inner and Outer Space in Doris Lessing's Shikasta." Science Fiction Studies v. 17 (1990) pp. 221-238.
- Spiritual Explorations in the Works of Doris Lessing (Greenwood Press, 1999) (Contributions to the Study of SF and Fantasy, no. 81). Includes:
- Seeing Differently: "The Spiritual Immersed within the Everyday" - Ages of Anxiety: The Diaries of Jane Somers (Virginia Tiger) - Pursuing Difference in The Marriages between Zones Three, Four and Five (Eral G. Ingersol) - Approaching the Apocalypse: Individual and Cultural Collapse and the Seeds of New Vision - Androgyny or Catastrophe: Doris Lessing's Vision in the Early 70s (Nancy Topping Bazin) - Cabalistic Gardens: Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor (Debrah Raschke) - White Settlers in the Heart of Empire: Visionary Power in Lessing's The Four-Gated City (Cherry Clayton) - Doris Lessing's Prophetic Voice in Shikasta: Cassandra or Sybil ? (Jeannette Weber) - Beyond the Binary: "It Isn't Either or..It's and, and, and, and" - The Whirlpool and the Fountain: Inner Growth and Love, Again (Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis) - "A Question of Wholes": Spiritual Intersecting, Universal Re-Visions in the Work of Doris Lessing (Melanie Hunter & Darby McIntosh) - Considering the Stars: The Expanding Universe of Doris Lessing's Work (Josna E. Rege)
- The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979.
- Doris Lessing. London: Methuen, 1983.
- "Candid Shot." Doris Lessing Newsletter 8 (Fall 1984): 5.
- "'The Words Had Been Right and Necessary' Doris Lessing's Transformations of Utopian and Dystopian Modalities in The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five." Style (DeKalb, Illinois), v. 27 (Spring 1993), pages 63-80.