SOURCE: "Crisis Points," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4540, April 6-12, 1990, p. 376.

In the following review of Selected Stories, Baveystock characterizes Dubus's fictional treatment of human conflict and crisis as psychological in origin and execution and suggests that the longer works are most reflective of the author's considerable insight and perception.

Only eight of Andre Dubus's fifty-odd short stories or novellas have already been published in this country, in two paperback editions which are now out of print. So the appearance of these twenty-three Selected Storles is to be welcomed by anyone interested in short American fiction. Dubus has only ever written one novel, The Lieutenant, which, were he to write it now, he reveals in an interview with Thomas E. Kennedy in Andre Dubus: A study of the short fiction, "would be a good hundred-page novella … [not] a weak two-hundred page novel." Indeed, this latest volume proves...