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Last Updated Mar 19, 2021
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Search Summon for Book Reviews
Search most of the online resources of the Thompson Library for book reviews.
Resources with Book Reviews
Below are resources that include book reviews heavily or exclusively. Book reviews can often be found in other online resources specific to the subject matter of the book. For example, if you are looking for reviews of a book on sociology, you could search Sociological Abstracts. This and many other databases allow you to restrict your search by article type to book reviews.
1983-present. English-language fiction & non-fiction books (excluding reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law & the sciences).
Provides searchable, online access to volumes from ten different series reproducing excerpts from critical reviews of all kinds and periods of literature.
Includes:
• Children's Literature Review
• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
• Contemporary Literary Criticism
• Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
• Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
• Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism
• Short Story Criticism
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
Covers 1,500+ periodicals across all humanities and social sciences fields. 1907-present (indexing); 1984-present (abstracts); 1994-present (selected full text).
Combines Wilson's Humanities Abstracts and Social Science Abstracts into a single file with Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective, covering all humanities and social sciences fields, including: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Community Health, Criminology, Dance, Economics, Environmental studies, Ethics, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Religion, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Online access to all articles in all issues of Europe's largest-circulation literary magazine.
1979-present. Publishes intellectual essays combining topicality with depth and scholarship with good writing, on topics ranging from political commentary to science, ancient history, literary criticism and social anthropology. Publishes 24 issues per year, each containing up to 15 long reviews and essays by academics, writers and journalists, along with shorter art and film reviews, poems, and letters to the editor.
1963-present. Online access to all issues of one of the premier literary-intellectual magazines in the English language. Essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film, many by writers who are themselves major forces in world literature and thought.
