David Denby bibliography

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

Books[]

External video
Presentation by Denby on Great Books, September 21, 1996, C-SPAN
Booknotes interview with Denby on Great Books, December 22, 1996, C-SPAN
Presentation by Denby on Snark, January 28, 2009, C-SPAN
Presentation by Denby on Lit Up, April 15, 2016, C-SPAN
Presentation by Denby on American Sucker, February 19, 2004

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.
• — (2012). Do the Movies Have a Future?. 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. Reviews François Truffaut's The Wild Child (1970).
• — (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 (2008) and Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008).
• — (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.

2010–2014[]

• 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. Reviews Kenji Mizoguchi's Life of Oharu (1952).
• — (March 14, 2011). "Looking for love". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 87 (4): 78–79. Reviews Peter and Bobby Farrelly's Hall Pass (2011), Michael Dowse's Take Me Home Tonight (2011) and Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (2011).
• — (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 (2011).
• — (January 2, 2012). "Battle stations". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 87 (42): 78–79. Reviews Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady (2011), Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011) and Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).
• — (January 16, 2012). "Lost love". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 87 (44): 80–81. Reviews Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) and Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo (2011).
• — (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 (1941).
• — (January 30, 2012). "Flesh and fantasy". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 87 (46): 78–79. Reviews Frederick Wiseman's Crazy Horse (2011), Baltasar Kormákur's Contraband (2012) and Steven Soderbergh's Haywire (2011).
• — (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 15, 2013). "Commitments". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (9): 84–85. Terrence Malick's To the Wonder and Robert Redford's The Company you Keep.
• — (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.
• — (May 13, 2013). "All that jazz". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (13): 78–79. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.
• — (June 10–17, 2013). "Rob jobs". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (17): 110–111. Reviews Louis Leterrier's Now You See Me and Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring.
• — (August 5, 2013). "Young and restless". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (23): 78–79. James Ponsoldt's The Spectacular Now, Maggie Carey's The To Do List and Paul Schrader's The Canyons.
• — (October 21, 2013). "Fighting to survive". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (33): 108–109. Reviews Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave and J. C. Chandor's All is Lost.
• — (November 4, 2013). "Getting serious". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (35): 116–117. Discusses Matthew McConaughey in Jean-Marc Vallée's Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
• — (December 2, 2013). "Winners and losers". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (39): 66–68. Reviews Francis Lawrence's The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Alex Gibney's The Armstrong Lie.
• — (December 16, 2013). "Grand scam". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (41): 80–82. Reviews David O. Russell's American Hustle (2013).
• — (January 6, 2014). "Home truths". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (43): 72–73. Reviews John Wells' August: Osage County (2013), Ralph Fiennes' The Invisible Woman (2013) and Peter Berg's Lone Survivor (2013).
• — (February 3, 2014). "Ordinary people". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 82–83. Reviews German television series Generation War (2013) and Tim Story's Ride Along (2014).
• — (March 17, 2014). "Hollywood at war : five major directors with a mission". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 90 (4): 69–73.
• — (March 24, 2014). "The story of Joe". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 90 (5): 84–86. Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac.
• — (March 31, 2014). "In a frenzy : Hitchcock's forgotten masterpiece, at Film Forum". Goings on About Town. Movies. The New Yorker. 90 (6): 10. Reviews Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972).
• — (April 21, 2014). "Field maneuvers". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 90 (9): 110–111. Reviews Ivan Reitman's Draft Day (2014) and Errol Morris' The Unknown Known (2013).
• — (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.
• — (September 1, 2014). "Lasting impressions". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 90 (25): 78–79. Reviews Michael Winterbottom's The Trip to Italy (2014).
• — (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.

2015–2019[]

• Denby, David (January 12, 2015). "Dirty oil". The Critics. The Current Cinema. The New Yorker. 90 (43): 72–73. Reviews J. C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year (2014).
• — (January 2018). "Mr. Mailer goes to Washington : The Armies of the Night fifty years on". Reviews. Harper's Magazine. 336 (2012): 89–94.
• — (February 11, 2019). "Nothing sacred". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 94 (48): 62–67.^[1]

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