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ENGL 116 : American Literature (SC)
finding contemporary book reviews:
LexisNexis academic
Provider: LN
Use LexisNexis to find book reviews from the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Seattle Times, and other city newspapers.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
This is a great source for book reviews, because it indexes some of the major book reviewers, including Kirkus, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. Keep in mind that these reviews are generally short blurbs.
Times Literary Supplement archive
Provider: TLS
Famous for its book reviews. Note that you are taken to an intermediary page with user name and password information.
The New York review of books.
Publisher: [New York, etc., A. W. Ellsworth, etc.]
Another well known and respected venue for book reviews. Unfortunately, we don't have access to the archives online. It is indexed in ProQuest and we've got recent issues in print, older issues (2005 and prior) on microfilm. Haverford has the last two years in print though.
Book review index
Provider: Gale
An online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. Covers 1965-present. Not all of the reviews will be scholarly enough for you. For example, this database indexes Oprah's O Magazine!
Book review digest
Provider: Wilson
Provides abstracts and citations to reviews of English language adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles. Reviews are selected from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library science fields. Covers 1983-present.
Literature resource center
An excellent source. This provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, including all the authors you are studying in this class. Provides a good summary, bigraphy, and bibliography for each author.
MLA international bibliography
Provider: ProQuest
While most of the books you are studying are too new to have prompted many scholarly articles, you might want to check out MLA to see if you can find some in-depth articles. MLA provides citations to journal articles, books, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and other materials. Areas covered include literature, language, linguistics, film, theatre and folklore. Covers 1926-present.




