David Denby bibliography explained

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

Books

Non–fiction

• Book: Denby, David . Awake in the dark : an anthology of American film criticism, 1915 to the present . New York . Vintage Books . 1977 . 0394721942-->.
• Book: Denby, David . 1 . Great books : my adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other indestructible writers of the Western world . New York . Simon & Schuster . 1996 . 96018634-->.
• Book: Denby, David . 1 . Snark : a polemic in seven fits . 2009 . 2008050435-->.
• Book: Denby, David . 1 . Do the movies have a future? . New York . Simon & Schuster . 2012 .
• Book: Denby, David . 1 . Lit up : one reporter, three schools, twenty-four books that can change lives . New York . Henry Holt . 2016.

Memoir

• Book: Denby, David . American sucker . Boston . Little, Brown . 2004 . 0316192945-->.

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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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 . April 5, 2010 . . The Critics. The Current Cinema . The New Yorker . 86 . 8 . 86–87 . 2022-05-22-->. Reviews Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass (2009), Raymond De Felitta's City Island (2009) and Andy Tennant's The Bounty Hunter (2010).
• Denby, David . 1 . April 26, 2010 . . Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook . The New Yorker . 86 . 10 . 12 . 2022-04-01-->. Reviews William Wellman's Nothing Sacred (1937).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . October 4, 2010. Influencing people . The New Yorker . 86 . 3 . 98–102 . Reviews David Fincher's The Social Network (2010).
• Denby, David . 1 . March 14, 2011. End games . The Critics. A Critic at Large . The New Yorker . 87 . 4 . 65–68 . Reviews the films of Abbas Kiarostami.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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 (2011).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . November 19, 2012 . Public Defender . Annals of Education . The New Yorker . 88 . 36 . 66–75 . Diane Ravitch.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . February 11–18, 2013 . [<!--accessdate=--> "Eight" at Eighty ]. Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook . The New Yorker . 89 . 1 . 26 . George Cukor's Dinner at Eight.
• Denby, David . 1 . February 11–18, 2013 . [<!--accessdate=--> The Last Picture Show ]. The Critics. The Current Cinema . The New Yorker . 89 . 1 . 114–115 . Steven Soderbergh.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . March 11, 2013 . Lady Isabelle . Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook . The New Yorker . 89 . 4 . 14 . Isabelle Adjani.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . April 1, 2013 . Shock corridors . Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook . The New Yorker . 89 . 7 . 16 . Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . April 22, 2013 . Artful Dodgers . The Critics. The Current Cinema . The New Yorker . 89 . 10 . 114–115 . Brian Helgeland's 42.
• Denby, David . 1 . April 29, 2013 . Love and labor . Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook . The New Yorker . 89 . 11 . 9 .
• Denby, David . 1 . May 13, 2013 . All that jazz . The Critics. The Current Cinema . The New Yorker . 89 . 13 . 78–79 . Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . December 2, 2013 . Winners and losers . The Critics. The Current Cinema . The New Yorker . 89 . 39 . 66–68 . Reviews Francis Lawrence's and Alex Gibney's The Armstrong Lie.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . March 17, 2014 . Hollywood at war : five major directors with a mission . The Critics. Books . The New Yorker . 90 . 4 . 69–73 .
• Denby, David . 1 . March 24, 2014 . The story of Joe . The Critics. The Current Cinema . The New Yorker . 90 . 5 . 84–86 . Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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.
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . 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).
• Denby, David . 1 . January 2018 . Mr. Mailer goes to Washington : The Armies of the Night fifty years on . Reviews . Harper's Magazine . 336 . 2012 . 89–94 . limited .
• Denby, David . 1 . February 11, 2019 . Nothing sacred . The Critics. Books . The New Yorker . 94 . 48 . 62–67 . ^[1]

Notes and References

1. Online version is titled "The great Hollywood screenwriter who hated Hollywood". Discusses Ben Hecht.