History and critique of LISP
John McCarthy 1960, Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their Computation by Machine
John McCarthy 1979, History of Lisp
John McCarthy 1980, LISP - Notes on its Past and Future
Rodney A. Brooks and Richard P. Gabriel 1984, A Critique of Common Lisp
Richard P. Gabriel and Steele 1993, The Evolution of Lisp
Richard P. Gabriel and Kent M. Pitman 2001, Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells
Ron Garret 2006, How Common Lisp sucks
Aesthetics and other aspects of LISP
Richard P. Gabriel's site http://www.dreamsongs.com/
Paul Graham's site http://paulgraham.com/