Michael Darnell: The Divided Global Subject in The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan. In: Michael Darnell: Networks of Displacement: Genealogy, Nationality, and Ambivalence in Works by Vladimir Nabokov and Gary Shteyngart. (Doktorarbeit.) Columbia University, New York NY 2016. S.138–186. Hier S.156. pdf
„Borders can be crossed, regimes replaced, economic systems re-engineered, but – for Shteyngart – identity persists.“ – Walter Kirn: Russian Unorthodox. In: https://www.nytimes.com. Abgerufen am 1. Januar 2023 . (englisch; paywall)
„There are a lot of stereotypes here and plenty of intellectually incorrect exercises in racial and group determinism. Shteyngart […] jokes in peoples, too, and not only about Jews and Russians, as his heritage entitles him to, but about Muslims, Germans, Brooklynites and every other in-group he can outrage.“ – Walter Kirn: Russian Unorthodox. In: https://www.nytimes.com. Abgerufen am 1. Januar 2023. (englisch; paywall)
