Essays/articles
Philippe Elhem, "Stranger than paradise de Jim Jarmusch" (Long Métrage 2 - Crisnée: Yellow Now, 1988), 92 pp. (In French).
Richard Ferncase, "Deadpan Alley: Stranger than Paradise", in his "Outsider Features: American Independent Films of the 1980s" (Greenwood Press, 1996), 55-66.
Flo Leibowitz, "Neither Hollywood nor Godard: The Strange Case of Stranger than Paradise", Persistence of Vision, 6, 1988, 20-25.
Rosemary L Matich,"Functional Criticism: Cinematic Space/Time Theory and Phenomenology". PhD diss. Northwestern University, 1989. [Analyzes four 'postrealist' films, one being Stranger.] [Full citation and Abstract.]
Interviews
Peter Belsito, "Jim Jarmusch", in "Jim Jarmusch: Interviews" (ed Ludvig Hertzberg, 2001), originally in Notes from the Pop Underground (The Last Gasp of San Francisco, 1985), pp. 56-71
Victoria Bugbee, "Stranger Than Paradise: Two lenses, $130,00 and no cuts", American Cinematographer 67:3 (March 1985), 46-55.
Harlan Jacobson, “Three Guys in Three Directions / ‘Stranger Than Paradise’ $120,000”, Film Comment 21:1 (Jan/Feb 1984), 54, 60-62. Reprinted as "Jim Jarmusch" in "Jim Jarmusch: Interviews" (ed Hertzberg).
Cassandra Stark, "The Jim Jarmusch Interview", in "Jim Jarmusch: Interviews" (ed Ludvig Hertzberg, 2001), originally in The Underground Film Bulletin 4 (September, 1985) pp. 12-21