David Denby bibliography

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A list of the published works of David Denby, American journalist and film critic.

Books

Non-fiction

• Denby, David (1996). Great books : my adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other indestructible writers of the Western world. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• — (2009). Snark : a polemic in seven fits. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• — (2016). Lit up : one reporter, three schools, twenty-four books that can change lives. New York: Henry Holt.

Memoir

• Denby, David (2004). American sucker. Boston: Little, Brown.

Essays and reporting

2000–2009

• Denby, David (November 17, 2008). "Tabula Rasa". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 84 (37): 35. François Truffaut's The Wild Child.
• — (December 8, 2008). "History in the Making". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 84 (40): 102–103. Reviews Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon and Baz Luhrmann's Australia.
• — (January 12, 2009). "Survivors". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 84 (44): 72–73. Reviews Edwards Zwick's Defiance and Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain.

2010–

• Denby, David (June 7, 2010). "The Seat of Power". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 86 (16): 9. Reviews Edward F. Cline's Million Dollar Legs (1932).
• — (October 11, 2010). "Triple Cross". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 86 (31): 30. Reviews Phil Karlson's Kansas City Confidential (1952).
• — (October 4, 2010). "Influencing People". The New Yorker 86 (3): 98–102. Reviews David Fincher's The Social Network (2010).
• — (March 14, 2011). "End Games". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker 87 (4): 65–68. Reviews the films of Abbas Kiarostami.
• — (April 4, 2011). "A Man's World". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 87 (7): 13. Kenji Mizoguchi's Life of Oharu.
• — (March 14, 2011). "Looking for Love". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 87 (4): 78–79. Peter and Bobby Farrelly's Hall Pass; Michael Dowse's Take Me Home Tonight; Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre.
• — (November 14, 2011). "The Man in Charge". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 87 (36): 90–91. Reviews Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar.
• — (January 2, 2012). "Battle Stations". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 87 (42): 78–79. Reviews Phyllida Lloyd's Iron Lady, Steven Spielberg's War Horse and Brad Bird's Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
• — (January 16, 2012). "Lost Love". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 87 (44): 80–81. Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo.
• — (January 30, 2012). "Brotherly Love". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 87 (46): 7. Reviews Gregory La Cava's Unfinished Business.
• — (January 30, 2012). "Flesh and Fantasy". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 87 (46): 78–79. Frederick Wiseman's Crazy Horse, Baltasar Kormákur's Contraband and Steven Soderbergh's Haywire.
• — (February 13–20, 2012). "Soldiering On". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 88 (1): 10. William Wellman's The Story of G.I. Joe.
• — (February 13–20, 2012). "Powers of Evil". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 88 (1): 120–121. Josh Trank's Chronicle and Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness.
• — (April 16, 2012). "Learning on the job". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 88 (9): 116–117. Joseph Cedar's Footnote and Philippe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar.
• — (November 19, 2012). "Public Defender". Annals of Education. The New Yorker 88 (36): 66–75. Diane Ravitch.
• — (November 26, 2012). "Animal Instincts". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 88 (37): 86–87. Ang Lee's Life of Pi and David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook.
• — (January 14, 2013). "Open country". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 88 (43): 78–79. Gus Van Sant's Promised Land and Walter Salles' On the Road.
• — (January 28, 2013). "Stiff upper lips". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 88 (45): 80–81. Michael Apted's 56 Up and Juan Antonio Bayona's The Impossible.
• — (February 11–18, 2013). ""Eight" at Eighty". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 89 (1): 26. George Cukor's Dinner at Eight.
• — (February 11–18, 2013). "The Last Picture Show". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 89 (1): 114–115. Steven Soderbergh.
• — (March 4, 2013). "Dangerous liaisons". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 89 (3): 80–81.Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love and Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures.
• — (March 11, 2013). "Lady Isabelle". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 89 (4): 14. Isabelle Adjani.
• — (March 18, 2013). "Kids' stuff". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 89 (5): 86–87. Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful and Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer.
• — (April 1, 2013). "Shock corridors". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 89 (7): 16. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
• — (April 1, 2013). "Rough rides". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 89 (7): 84–85. Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines and Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen.
• — (April 22, 2013). "Artful Dodgers". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 89 (10): 114–115. Brian Helgeland's 42.
• — (April 29, 2013). "Love and labor". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker 89 (11): 9.
• — (March 24, 2014). "The story of Joe". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 90 (5): 84–86. Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac.
• — (June 2, 2014). "Disconnected man". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 90 (15): 82–83. Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves and Richard Ayoade's The Double.
• — (July 28, 2014). "Under the Spell". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 90 (21): 78–79. Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight and Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man.
• — (December 22–29, 2014). "Living history". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker 90 (41): 150–151. Ava Du Vernay's Selma and Clint Eastwood's American Sniper.