In the following essay, Imhof traces Higgins's literary development and asserts that his early short fiction should be considered his best work.

In the following essay, Byrne draws literary parallels between Higgins’s short story “Killachter Meadow” and his novel Langrishe, Go Down through a chronological study of the works’s protagonists.

In the following essay, Skelton asserts that Higgins is working toward “the Total Book” in his fiction, in that he is “exploring the possibilities of linguistic innovation.”

In the following excerpt, Murphy demonstrates how Higgins’s use of realism in the short story collection Felo de Se is secondary in relevance to his several artistic intents.

In the following review, Dallat contends that Higgins's short fiction collection Flotsam and Jetsam “offers a vivid illustration of his range and eclecticism, his outstanding control of atmospheres, his literary development and his importance in the history of twentieth-century Irish literature, in which he can be seen as a missing link between the modernist period and contemporary writing.”

In the following negative review of Higgins’s collection Helsingor Station and Other Departures, Melmoth contends that the later stories and autobiographical essays are found lacking as polished works of literature.