Index of Literary Reviews

All reviews are Short Takes unless otherwise indicated.

1150-1200

• The Troubadours [Bernart de Ventadorn, Arnaut Daniel] (extended review)

1200-1249

• The Sicilian School [Pier delle Vigne, Giacomo da Lentini] (extended review)

1250-1299

• The Dolce stil novo Poets [Guido Guinizelli, Guido Cavalcanti] (extended review)
• La vita nuova, Dante (extended review)

1300s

• Il canzoniere, Petrarch (extended review)

1600s

• Poems, John Donne (extended essay)

1796

• Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, J. W. von Goethe (extended review)

1877

• "Herodias," Gustave Flaubert (extended review)
• "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller," Gustave Flaubert (extended review)
• "A Simple Heart," Gustave Flaubert (extended review)

1899

• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

1902

• "The Lady Maid's Bell," Edith Wharton

1904

• Hadji Murád, Leo Tolstoy (extended review)

1905

• The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

1910

• "The Eyes," Edith Wharton

1917

• "The Mark on the Wall," Virginia Woolf (extended review)

1919

• "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," H. P. Lovecraft (extended review)
• "Dagon," H. P. Lovecraft (extended review)
• "Kew Gardens," Virginia Woolf (extended review)

1920

• "The Cats of Ulthar," H. P. Lovecraft
• "The Doom That Came to Sarnath," H. P. Lovecraft
• "An Unwritten Novel," Virginia Woolf (extended review)

1921

• "Blue & Green," Virginia Woolf (extended review)
• "A Haunted House," Virginia Woolf (extended review)
• "Monday or Tuesday," Virginia Woolf (extended review)
• "A Society," Virginia Woolf (extended review)
• "The String Quartet," Virginia Woolf (extended review)

1922

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot (part of a larger essay)

1927

• Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust (extended essay)

1931

• The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

1932

• "The Frost-Giant's Daughter," Robert E. Howard
• "The God in the Bowl," Robert E. Howard
• "The Phoenix on the Sword," Robert E. Howard

1933

• "Black Colossus," Robert E. Howard
• "The Pool of the Black One," Robert E. Howard
• "The Scarlet Citadel," Robert E. Howard
• "The Tower of the Elephant," Robert E. Howard
• "Xuthal of the Dusk," Robert E. Howard

1934

• "Iron Shadows in the Moon," Robert E. Howard
• "Queen of the Black Coast," Robert E. Howard
• Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (part of a larger essay)

1936

• House of Incest, Anaïs Nin (part of a larger essay)
• Novel on Yellow Paper, Stevie Smith

1939

• Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller (part of a larger essay)
• "Winter of Artifice," Anaïs Nin (part of a larger essay)

1941

• Mildred Pierce, James M. Cain

1944

• Under a Glass Bell, Anaïs Nin (part of a larger essay)

1947

• "The Enormous Radio," John Cheever
• "The Third Resignation," Gabriel García Márquez

1951

• "Goodbye, My Brother," John Cheever
• Molloy, Samuel Beckett

1953

• Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (extended essay)

1954

• "The Country Husband," John Cheever
• "The Five Forty-Eight," John Cheever

1962

• "Reunion," John Cheever
• The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe

1963

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré

1964

• "The Swimmer," John Cheever

1965

• "The Distance of the Moon," Italo Calvino

1969

• Bullet Park, John Cheever

1974

• Carrie, Stephen King

1997

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [Book 1], J. K. Rowling

1998

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [Book 2], J. K. Rowling

1999

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [Book 3], J. K. Rowling

2001

• Atonement, Ian McEwan
• Life of Pi, Yann Martel

2006

• "The canals. The liquor coming through," Joshua Beckman
• "A Game of Cards," Rose Tremain (extended review)
• "On the Lake," Olaf Olafsson (extended review)
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy (extended review)
• "Tattooizm," Kevin Moffett (extended review)

2007

• "Jonah," Laura Hope-Gill
• "Listen," Charles Simic (extended review)

2008

• "Carrying on Like a Crow," Charles Simic (extended review)
• "A House Is Not a Home," Terrence Hayes (extended review)
• The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
• "lime Light Blues," Kevin Young

2009

• "The Ascent," Ron Rash (extended review)
• "Black Telephone," David Trinidad
• Bloggers on the Bus, Eric Boehlert (extended review)
• The Dinner, Herman Koch
• The Help, Kathryn Stockett
• "Oh dont," Kelle Groom (extended review)
• "On the Waterfront," B. H. Fairchild (extended review)
• "Painted House, Painted Ship," Rebecca Makkai (extended review)
• "Q," Sharon Olds
• "The Trespasser," Bonnie Jo Campbell (extended review)
• "World of Gas," Bonnie Jo Campbell (extended review)
• "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You," Jim Shepard (extended review)

2010

• "Uncle Rock," Dagoberto Gilb

2011

• "Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright on Dissecting the White Negro, 1851," Natasha Tretheway (extended review)
• "Girl with Gerbil," Don Russ
• "Moaning Action at the Gas Pump," Brenda Hillman (extended review)
• The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes (extended review)
• "Terminal Nostalgia," Sherman Alexie (extended review)
• "The Vandercook," Alice Mattison

2012

• The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson

2014

• So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood, Patrick Modiano (extended review)

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