In the following essay, Carden asserts that Smiley's A Thousand Acres exposes a cultural amnesia created by agrarian life in America that tends to forget and silence the stories of women.

In the following essay, Schiff discusses Smiley's rewriting of King Lear in A Thousand Acres.

In the following essay, Mathieson discusses how Smiley presents nature and man's relationship to it in A Thousand Acres.

In the following essay, Rozga compares and contrasts Smiley's A Thousand Acres and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie.

In the following essay, Keppel traces the reasons why Smiley chooses to tell A Thousand Acres from the perspective of Ginny (the Goneril character).

In the following essay, Olson studies the relationship between food and power in Smiley's A Thousand Acres.

In the following essay, Bakerman discusses Smiley's vision of life in A Thousand Acres.

In the following review, Eder complains that Smiley's A Thousand Acres, with its reversal of King Lear, does not work.

In the following review, Christiansen asserts that Smiley's “A Thousand Acres has a moral weight, a technical accomplishment and a sheer eloquence that demands some special recognition.”