In the following excepts from his book-length study of Shiga, Mathy analyzes eight of the author's most famous short stories and summarizes how his work differs from Western standards of great literature.

In the following excerpt, Fowler surveys Shiga's novellas, particularly Wakai. He then goes on to contend that Shiga "depopulates " his fiction, showing his main characters in relative isolation in order to better explore the nature of personal experience.

In the excerpt below, Makoto examines Shiga's literary aesthetic through a survey of his fictional and autobiographical writings.

In the essay below, Shigekazu suggests that Shiga's revision of Shakespeare's Hamlet in "The Diary of Claudius" illustrates significant differences between Japanese and Western literary modernism.

In the following excerpt, Sibley argues that the narrator of Shiga's stories is a distinct persona that, while often serving as the author's alter-ego, is separate from him. He names this figure the "Shiga hero. "

In the following review, Sato offers a favorable assessment of Shiga's collection The Paper Door and Other Stories.

In the review below, Miller admires the "truthfulness" of the pieces in this collection of Shiga's stories.