- Ulysses – March 2026 User Stories
- The New Yorker – October 2025 The Best Books of the Year So Far
- Writers at Work podcast – May 2025 Michael Amherst
- The Southwark Cathedral podcast – April 2025 The Boyhood of Cain
- San Clemente podcast – April 2025 Michael Amherst: Selfhood, Knowledge and Literature vs AI
- BookTrib – April 2025 11 Cures for your Season Three White Lotus Hangover
- The Bay Area Reporter – March 2025 – Interview with Michael Amherst
- The New Yorker – March 2025 The Best Books We Read This Week
- The New Yorker – March 2025 Briefly Noted
- Debutiful – March 2025 Writing Towards Discomfort – Michael Amherst on The Boyhood of Cain
- The Sunday Times – February 2025 The best books of 2025 so far
- The Irish Times – February 2025 – The Boyhood of Cain – An interesting and unusual book
- The Guardian – February 2025 The Boyhood of Cain review – a terrific queer coming-of-age debut
- The London Magazine – February 2025 Interview: the Search for Truth
- Hero – February 2025 Michael Amherst on his debut novel: a poetic story of small town boyhood
- BBC Radio 4 – February 2025 Front Row
- The Times – February 2025 Most debut novels are ho-hum, but this one is gosh-wow
- Literary Review – February 2025 Sorrows of Young Danny
- Lit with Charles podcats – January 2025 Michael Amherst author of The Boyhood of Cain
- Kirkus Reviews – January 2025 Starred review for The Boyhood of Cain
- Irish Independent – January 2025 The Must Read 25 International Novels of 2025
- Times Literary Supplement – August 2020 Beyond the Binary – review of Go the Way Your Blood Beats