SOURCE: A review of London Kills Me, in World Literature Today, Vol. 66, No. 4, Autumn, 1992, p. 724.

Below, Dasenbrock gives a mixed assessment of London Kills Me and Kureishi's writing in general.

London Kills Me is a collection of three screenplays and four essays by one of the most visible young “Black British” writers, Hanif Kureishi. These include the screenplays of the two well-known films Kureishi wrote for Stephen Frears, My Beautiful Laundrette and Rosie and Sammy Get Laid, as well as the screenplay of the new film Kureishi directed himself which gives the volume its title. Each screenplay is introduced by a related essay, and I found I learned more about Kureishi and his work from the essays than from the screenplays, since the essays comment on the films and the process by which they were made, whereas the screenplays provide little more than a pale outline of the...