Erb, Lisa, "An Interview with Ai: Dancing with the Madness," in Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1990, pp. 22-40.

This is an interview in which Ai speaks of her treatment
of eroticism.

Hueving, Jeanne, "Divesting Social Registers: Ai's Sensational Portraiture of the Renowned and the Infamous," in Critical Survey, Vol. 9, No. 2, May 1997, pp. 108-20.

Hueving discusses Ai's poetic portraits of famous
figures such as John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa
and how these characters are juxtaposed with nameless
characters such as dissatisfied wives, priests, and
vengeful mothers.

Ingram, Claudia, "Writing the Crises: The Deployment of Abjection in Ai's Dramatic Monologues," in Literature Interpretation Theory, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 1997, pp. 173-91.

This is an analysis of how Ai explores the prevalence
of violence in modern life by reminding her readers
of their cooperation with the violence in language and
culture.

Kilcup, Karen L., "Dialogues...