Shostakovich : A Life by Laurel E. Fay 464 pages (November 1999) Oxford Univ Pr ; ISBN: 0195134389

Music of the Soviet Age, 1917-1987", by Levon Hakopian. -Melos, 1998. (Stockholm)

Shostakovich Studies edited by David Fanning pub.-Cambridge University Press. Contributors include Richard Taruskin, Laurel Fay, Patrick McCreless, David Fanning, Ellon Carpenter, and Eric Roseberry

Shostakovich - The Man and His Music edited by Christopher Norris pub.- Marion Boyars Inc. Various chapters are written by respected composers, musicologists, and musicians (incl. Christopher Rowland & Alan George of the Fitzwilliam Quartet).

Defining Russia Musically : Historical and Hermeneutical Essays by Richard Taruskin published by Princeton Univ Pr, 1997.

And for those who read Russian:

L. Mazel. Notes on Shostakovich’s musical language (in Russian: L. Mazel’. Zametki o muzikal’nom yazike Shostakovicha // Dmitriy Shostakovich. — Moskva, Sovetskiy kompozitor, 1967.

G. Orlov. Shostakovich’s symphonies (G. Orlov. Simfonii Shostakovicha. — Leningrad, Gos. muzikal’noe izdatel’stvo, 1961).

M. Sabinina. Shostakovich as symphonist (M. Sabinina. Shostakovich-simfonist. Dramaturgiya. Estetika. Stil’. — Moskva, Muzika, 1976).

M. Aranovsky. Shostakovich’s 15th symphony and some questions of musical semantics (M. Aranovskiy. Pyatnadtzataya simfoniya D. Shostakovicha i nekotorie voprosi muzikal’noy semantiki // Voprosi teorii i estetiki muziki, 15. — Leningrad, Muzika, 1977).

Hommage to Shostakovich (Shostakovichu posvyashchaetsya. — Moskva, Kompozitor, 1997).

D. D. Shostakovich. Sbornik statey k 90-letiyu so dnya rozhdenia. — Sankt-Peterburg, Kompozitor, 1996.

Finally, in December, 1997 a special Shostakovich issue of the magazine Muzikalnaya Akademia ("Musical Academy") appeared, containing a lot of very interesting items, such as young Shostakovich’s letters to the musicologist Jaworski, his correspondence with the composer L. Atovmian and the violinist V. Shirinsky, numerous articles by Russian and foreign authors.