Storyteller has received several critical studies including:
- Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical Essays by Louise K. Barnett, James L. Thorson. See the articles by Linda Krumholz ("Native Designs: Silko's Storyteller and the Reader's Initiation"), Helen Jaskoski ("To Tell a Good Story"), and Elizabeth McHenry ("Spinning a Fiction of Culture: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller").
- See chapter 1 of Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature by Amelia V. Katanski.
- "'The Way I Heard It': Autobiography, Tricksters, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Domina, Lynn; Studies in American Indian Literatures', 2007 Fall; 19 (3): 45–67.
- "Storyteller: Leslie Marmon Silko's Reapproriation of Native American History and Identity." By: Carsten, Cynthia; Wíčazo Ša Review, 2006 Fall; 21 (2): 105–26.
- "Improvisations on the Genre: Maxine Hong Kingston's and Leslie Marmon Silko's (Auto)Biographical Writings." By: Ziarkowska, Joanna; Americana: E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, 2006 Spring; 2 (1): [no pagination].
- "Narrative Power in Native American Fiction: Reflections on Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller (1981)." By: Johansen, Ib; p.o.v: A Danish Journal of Film Studies, 2004 Dec; 18: 78–88.
- "American Indian Literature and Eco-Vision: A Case Study of Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Kang, Ja Mo; Journal of English Language and Literature/Yongo Yongmunhak, 2001; 47 (2): 527–48.
- "The Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling." By: Fitz, Brewster E.. IN: Iftekharrudin, Boyden, Rohrberger, and Claudet, The Postmodern Short Story: Forms and Issues. Westport, CT: Praeger; 2003. pp. 77–85.
- "Legal Hunger: Law, Narrative, and Orality in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller and Almanac of the Dead." By: Karno, Valerie; College Literature, 2001 Winter; 28 (1): 29–45.
- "Death and the Power of Words in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Pellérin, Simone. IN: Castillo and Da Rosa, Native American Women in Literature and Culture. Porto, Portugal: Fernando Pessoa UP; 1997. pp. 119–26.
- "Storyteller: Revising the Narrative Schematic." By: Hernandez, Dharma Thornton; Pacific Coast Philology, 1996; 31 (1): 54–67.
- "Mother-Daughter Relationships as Epistemological Structures: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and Storyteller." By: Evans, Charlene Taylor. IN: Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth (ed.) Women of Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in 20th Century Literature. Austin: U of Texas P; 1996. pp. 172–87.
- "Laughing, Crying, Surviving: The Pragmatic Politics of Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer; A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, 1994 Spring; 9 (1): 18–42.
- "'To Understand This World Differently': Reading and Subversion in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Krumholz, Linda J.; ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 1994 Jan; 25 (1): 89-113.
- "Storyteller as Hopi Basket." By: Langen, Toby C. S.; Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, 1993 Spring; 5 (1): 7-24.
- "The Web of Meaning: Naming the Absent Mother in Storyteller." By: Jones, Patricia. IN: Graulich, Melody (ed.) Leslie Marmon Silko, "Yellow Woman". New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP; 1993. pp. 213–32.
- "The Other Story of Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Lorenz, Paul H.; South Central Review, 1991 Winter; 8 (4): 59–75.
- "The Dialogic of Silko's Storyteller." By: Krupat, Arnold. IN: Vizenor, Gerald (ed.) Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P; 1989. pp. 55–68.
- "Yellow Woman, Old and New: Oral Tradition and Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Thompson, Joan; The Wíčazo Ša Review, 1989 Fall; 5 (2): 22–25.
- "'The telling which continues': Oral Tradition and the Written Word in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller." By: Hirsch, Bernard A.; American Indian Quarterly, 1988 Winter; 12 (1): 1-26.
