Essays/articles
Bert Cardullo, "Saint Cinema" [essay discussing Mystery Train and Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso], The Hudson Review XLIII:3 (Autumn 1990), 480-488.
Thomas C Carlson, "The Comeback Corpse in Hollywood: Mystery Train, True Romance, and the Politics of Elvis in the '90s", Popular Music and Society, 22:2 (Summer 1998), pp. 1-10.
Thomas Carmichael, "Postmodernism and American Cultural Difference: Dispatches, Mystery Train, and The Art of Japanese Management", Boundary 2 / A journal of postmodern literature 21:1 (1994), 220-232.
Peter Conrad, "Arrival at Canterbury" [includes discussion of Mystery Train in the context of The Canterbury Tales], in his "To Be Continued: Four Stories and Their Survival" (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 7-45.
Eric Gonzalez, "In and along the mississippi: The motif of music in Joel and Ethan Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Jim Jarmusch's mystery train." Revue française d'études américaines 003, no98, pp. 99-110.
Dan Gribbin, "Gone Fishing: Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train", Film Comment 31:6 (Nov/Dec 1995), pp. 80-84.
Marcia Pally, "Closely Watched ‘Train’", Film Comment 25:4 (July/August 1989), 19-21.
Murray Smith, "Parallel Lines" [On the narrative form of Mystery Train] In: American independent cinema (ed Jim Hillier), BFI Publishing, 2001. A sight and sound reader.
Interviews
Jeremy Clarke, "Sixteen Coaches Long", Films and Filming, 422 (December, 1989), 30-32.
Luc Sante, “Mystery Man”, in "Jim Jarmusch: Interviews" (ed Ludvig Hertzberg, 2001), originally in Interview Magazine XIX:11 (Nov, 1989), 146-148, 207.
Cathleen McGuigan, "Shot by Shot: Mystery Train", in "Jim Jarmusch: Interviews" (ed Ludvig Hertzberg, 2001), originally in Premiere (US) (January 1990), 80-83.