Rereading Zola's Germinal
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/19/emile-zola-germinal-ruth-scurr
2010 reexamination of Zola's novel through a contemporary lens.
Germinal
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/germinal-1994
Roger Ebert review of the 1994 film adaptation of Germinal.
Naturalism
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on naturalism, a literary movement that Zola helped to found.