Reviews in Print
Has one of your favorite authors written book reviews? Following is a selection of books that include reviews written by well-known authors. Use JumboSearch to discover more.
Reviews and Essays in Library Databases
Use these library databases to locate both current and historic reviews of books, films, performances, and much more.
- Arts & Humanities Citation IndexProvides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in the arts and humanities. Part of Web of Science.
- Gale Primary SourcesCombines a number of primary source collections in the humanities and social sciences to allow for research across several centuries and includes the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2012, which is the complete online fully-searchable edition of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 onwards. This is the essential companion for studying and researching literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
- HAPI OnlineScholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States: citations to articles, book reviews, documents, literary works, and other material in more than 500 international social science and humanities journals, published from 1970 to the present.
Reviews on the Web
Below is a selection of high-quality web resources that feature book reviews in both longer and shorter formats. For critical and review essays, see sources like The London Review of Books and TLS. For shorter reviews, see sources like Kirkus Reviews.
- New York Review of BooksIncludes in-depth reviews of both academic and popular books as well as some film reviews.
- New York Times Sunday Book ReviewFull-text reviews across a variety of subjects from the New York Times.
- London Review of BooksThe London Review of Books includes literary and intellectual essays in English. Each issue contains up to 15 long reviews and essays by academics, writers and journalists. There are also shorter art and film reviews, as well as poems and a lively letters page.
- TLS: The Times Literary SupplementTLS is a leading international forum for literary culture.
- Atlantic Monthly: BooksBook reviews from the well-known magazine.
- QBR: The Black Book ReviewFeatures some of the best African-American writing, reviews, and interviews.
- Publishers WeeklyPublishers Weekly is a weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business. Its best known service is pre-publication book reviews, publishing some 8,000 per year.
- Kirkus ReviewsPosts over 500 pre-publication book reviews every month in multiple genres including fiction, mystery, science fiction and non-fiction.
- Washington Post BooksIncludes full-text reviews from the Washington Post.
- NPR BooksIncludes full-text reviews, author interviews, and more from NPR.
- New Yorker BooksIncludes reviews and more from the New Yorker.