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)

Other Articles

• In Memoriam: John Updike (1932-2009)

Index of Film Reviews

All reviews are Short Takes unless otherwise indicated. Films in boldface are especially recommended. Those with an asterisk after the title belong to my personal top ten.

1915

• The Birth of a Nation

1920

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1924

• Ballet mécanique
• Sherlock, Jr.

1925

• The Battleship Potemkin

1926

• Ménilmontant

1929

• Pandora's Box

1931

• City Lights

1933

• 42nd Street

1934

• The Gay Divorcee
• The Scarlet Empress

1935

• Top Hat

1936

• Swing Time

1938

• The Lady Vanishes

1939

• Le Jour se lève
• The Rules of the Game *
• The Wizard of Oz *

1940

• The Shop Around the Corner

1941

• Citizen Kane
• The Lady Eve
• The Maltese Falcon

1942

• Casablanca
• Cat People

1943

• I Walked with a Zombie
• Stormy Weather

1944

• The Curse of the Cat People
• Gaslight
• Meet Me in St. Louis

1945

• The Bells of St. Mary's
• Brief Encounter
• Children of Paradise
• Detour
• Mildred Pierce
• The Naughty Nineties
• Rome, Open City
• The Southerner

1946

• The Best Years of Our Lives

1947

• Nightmare Alley

1948

• The Red Shoes
• Unfaithfully Yours

1949

• The Third Man

1950

• Rashomon
• Summer Stock

1951

• The African Queen
• Strangers on a Train

1952

• Singin' in the Rain

1953

• The Band Wagon
• Duck Amuck
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• Tokyo Story

1954

• A Star Is Born

1955

• The Night of the Hunter

1956

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• The Red Balloon
• The Searchers

1957

• The Curse of Frankenstein
• The Seventh Seal
• Throne of Blood

1958

• Horror of Dracula

1959

• Hiroshima mon amour

1960

• L'avventura *
• Black Sunday
• Les Bonnes femmes
• Breathless (extended review)
• Le Petit soldat (extended review)
• Shoot the Piano Player

1961

• La notte
• A Woman Is a Woman (extended review)

1962

• The Avengers, Season 2, Episode 1: "Mr. Teddy Bear" (extended review)
• Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live) (extended review)

1963

• The Avengers, Season 3, Episode 12: "Don't Look Behind You"
• Les Carabiniers (extended review)
• Charade
• Contempt (Le Mépris) (extended review)
• 8½
• La Jetée
• The Servant

1964

• Band of Outsiders (extended review)
• Dr. Strangelove
• Une Femme Mariée (A Married Woman) (extended review)
• A Fistful of Dollars
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew
• Woman in the Dunes

1965

• Alphaville (extended review)
• The Avengers, Season 4, Episode 4: "Death at Bargain Prices"
• The Avengers, Season 4, Episode 13: "Too Many Christmas Trees"
• Doctor Zhivago
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

1966

• Alfie
• The Battle of Algiers
• Blow-Up
• Cul-de-Sac
• Georgy Girl
• Lord Love a Duck
• Made in U. S. A. (extended review)
• A Man and a Woman
• A Man for All Seasons
• Morgan!
• The Professionals
• Seconds

1967

• The Graduate
• The Stranger
• Weekend * (extended review)

1968

• Pretty Poison

1969

• Medium Cool

1970

• The Conformist
• Deep End

1971

• McCabe & Mrs. Miller *

1972

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• The Candidate
• The Godfather *
• Sisters

1973

• Don't Look Now

1974

• Chinatown
• The Godfather, Part II
• Lacombe, Lucien
• The Towering Inferno

1975

• Jaws *
• Nashville

1976

• Taxi Driver

1977

• The American Friend
• Andy Warhol's Bad
• Annie Hall

1978

• The Deer Hunter

1979

• All That Jazz
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1980

• Altered States
• Used Cars

1981

• An American Werewolf in London
• Blow Out

1982

• E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Koyaanisqatsi
• Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
• Personal Best
• Tootsie *

1983

• First Name: Carmen
• Terms of Endearment

1984

• Bizet's Carmen
• The Cotton Club
• Ghostbusters
• The Killing Fields
• Stranger Than Paradise
• This Is Spinal Tap

1985

• Into the Night
• Lost in America
• Ran

1986

• Blue Velvet
• The Paper Chase (TV series) [1978-1979, 1983-1986]
• Robin Williams: A Night at the Met
• Round Midnight

1987

• General Hospital [1978-1987]
• RoboCop

1988

• Bull Durham
• Dangerous Liaisons

1989

• Casualties of War
• Do the Right Thing
• The Fabulous Baker Boys *

1990

• Henry & June

1991

• Prime Suspect, Season 1
• Rhapsody in August

1993

• Carlito's Way *

1995

• Before Sunrise

1998

• Great Expectations
• Out of Sight

1999

• The Matrix
• Oklahoma!

2000

• The House of Mirth
• In the Mood for Love
• Songs from the Second Floor
• Wonder Boys

2001

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [Film 1]
• Mulholland Dr.

2002

• The Bourne Identity
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [Film 2]

2003

• X2: X-Men United

2004

• Before Sunset
• The Bourne Supremacy
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [Film 3]
• The Practice: The Final Season [2003-2004] (extended review)

2005

• Brokeback Mountain
• Hard Candy
• Sin City (part of a larger essay)

2006

• Casino Royale
• Children of Men
• Pan's Labyrinth

2007

• American Gangster (extended review)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (extended review)
• Atonement (extended review)
• Away from Her (extended review)
• Becoming Jane (extended review)
• The Counterfeiters (extended review)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (extended review)
• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (extended review)
• Juno (extended review)
• There Will Be Blood (extended review)
• La Vie en rose (La Môme) (extended review)
• The Visitor (extended review)

2008

• The Dark Knight (extended review)
• John Adams (extended review)
• Quantum of Solace
• Rachel Getting Married
• Recount

2009

• Bright Star (extended review)
• Capitalism: A Love Story (extended review)

2010

• The American (extended review)
• Black Swan
• Fair Game
• The Runaways
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2011

• The Adjustment Bureau
• Beginners
• Bridesmaids
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Contagion
• The Deep Blue Sea
• The Descendants
• Drive
• Green Lantern
• Hanna
• The Help
• The Ides of March
• Margin Call
• Melancholia
• Midnight in Paris
• Mildred Pierce
• Shame
• Take Shelter
• The Tree of Life
• X-Men: First Class
• Young Adult

2012

• Anna Karenina
• Arbitrage
• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Compliance
• Django Unchained
• Flight
• Game Change
• The Hunger Games
• The Impossible
• Killer Joe
• Killing Them Softly
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Looper
• Magic Mike
• The Master
• Les Misérables
• Prometheus
• Rust and Bone (extended review)
• The Sessions
• Skyfall
• Zero Dark Thirty

2013

• The Blacklist, Season 1, Episode 1: "Pilot" (extended review)
• Man of Steel
• Nebraska
• The Past
• Under the Skin
• The Wolverine

2014

• The Blacklist, Season 1, Episode 11: "The Good Samaritan Killer"
• The Blacklist, Season 1, Episode 12: "The Alchemist"
• The Imitation Game
• Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (part of a larger essay)
• Still Alice

2015

• Carol
• Creed
• Ex Machina
• 45 Years
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Spectre
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Index to Art Reviews

• The Art of Bob Peak
• Brassaï: A Perspective Knowing
• The Cartoon Paintings of Philip Guston
• Frazetta in Perspective
• Satire, Racist Imagery, and Robert Crumb

Index to Comics/Cartooning Reviews

All reviews are Short Takes unless otherwise indicated.

1920s-1930s

• The Complete Popeye, Volume I: "I Yam What I Yam", E. C. Segar (extended review)
• The Complete Popeye, Volume II: "Well, Blow Me Down", E. C. Segar (extended review)
• The Complete Popeye, Volume III: "Let's You and Him Fight", E. C. Segar (extended review)
• The Complete Popeye, Volume IV: "Plunder Island", E. C. Segar (extended review)

1940s

• Rip Kirby, Volume One: 1946-1948, Alex Raymond (extended review)

1960s

• Blazing Combat, Archie Goodwin, et al. (extended review)

1974

• The Arctic Marauder, Jacques Tardi (extended review)

1982

• Wolverine, Chris Claremont & Frank Miller (extended review)

1983

• American Flagg!: Hard Times [Book 1], Howard Chaykin (part of a larger review)
• American Flagg!: Southern Comfort [Book 2], Howard Chaykin (part of a larger review)
• Miracleman: A Dream of Flying (Book One), Alan Moore, Alan Davis, and Garry Leach (part of a larger review)

1984

• The Alack Sinner Stories, José Muñoz & Carlos Sampayo (extended review)
• American Flagg!: State of the Union [Book 3], Howard Chaykin (part of a larger review)
• American Flagg!: Solidarity, For Now [Book 4], Howard Chaykin (part of a larger review)
• The Joe's Bar Stories, José Muñoz & Carlos Sampayo (extended review)
• Saga of the Swamp Thing [Book 1], Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben (extended review)
• Swamp Thing: Love and Death [Book 2], Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben, et al. (extended review)

1985

• American Flagg!: Lustbusters [Book 8], Alan Moore, Don Lomax, and Larry Stroman (extended review)
• Superman: "For the Man Who Has Everything...," Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (extended review)
• Swamp Thing: The Curse [Book 3], Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, et al. (part of a larger review)

1986

• Miracleman: The Red King Syndrome (Book Two), Alan Moore, Alan Davis, Chuck Beckum, Rick Veitch, et al. (part of a larger review)
• Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, Alan Moore & Curt Swan, et al.
• Swamp Thing: A Murder of Crows [Book 4], Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, et al. (part of a larger review)
• Swamp Thing: Earth to Earth [Book 5], Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, et al. (part of a larger review)
• Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: "Tygers," Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill (extended review)

1987

• Alec: "The King Canute Club," Eddie Campbell (part of an extended essay on the omnibus collection Alec: The Years Have Pants)
• Swamp Thing: Reunion [Book 6], Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, et al. (part of a larger review)
• Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (extended review)

1988

• Batman: The Killing Joke, Alan Moore & Brian Bolland (extended review)
• Stray Toasters, Bill Sienkiewicz
• "Tear It Up, Terry Downe," Jaime Hernandez (part of a larger essay on the Locas stories)

1989

• "Flies on the Ceiling," Jaime Hernandez (part of a larger essay on the Locas stories)
• Miracleman: Olympus (Book Three), Alan Moore & John Totleben (part of a larger review)
• "Shadowplay: The Secret Team," Alan Moore & Bill Sienkiewicz
• "Spring 1982," Jaime Hernandez (part of a larger essay on the Locas stories)

1990

• Big Numbers 1 & 2, Alan Moore & Bill Sienkiewicz (extended review)

1991

• Big Numbers 3, Alan Moore & Bill Sienkiewicz
• Billie Holiday, José Muñoz & Carlos Sampayo (extended review)
• Miracleman: The Golden Age (Book Four), Neil Gaiman & Mark Buckingham (extended review)

1992

• Alec: "Graffiti Kitchen," Eddie Campbell (part of an extended essay on the omnibus collection Alec: The Years Have Pants)

1994

• Nocturnal Conspiracies, David B. (extended review)

2000

• Alec: "How to Be and Artist," Eddie Campbell (part of an extended essay on the omnibus collection Alec: The Years Have Pants)

2005

• Black Hole, Charles Burns (extended review)
• Night Fisher, R. Kikuo Johnson (extended review)

2006

• The Arrival, Shaun Tan
• The Fate of the Artist, Eddie Campbell (extended review)
• Lucille, Ludovic Debeurme (extended review)
• The Photographer, Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier (extended review)
• Please Release, Nate Powell

2007

• Exit Wounds, Rutu Modan (extended review)
• The Moth or the Flame Joshua Ray Stephens (extended review)
• "The Thing About Madeline," Lilli Carré (extended review)
• Things Just Get Away from You, Walt Holcombe

2008

• American Presidents, David Levine (extended review)
• Deitch's Pictorama, Kim Deitch, Seth Deitch, and Simon Kallan Deitch (extended review)
• Jessica Farm, Volume One, Josh Simmons (extended review)
• The Lagoon, Lilli Carré (extended review)
• Love and Rockets: New Stories #1, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Mario Hernandez (extended review)
• "The Politics of Fear," Barry Blitt (extended review)
• Speak of the Devil, Gilbert Hernandez (extended review)
• Swallow Me Whole, Nate Powell (extended review)

2009

• Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (extended review)
• Batman & Robin, Book One: Batman Reborn, Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, and Philip Tan (extended review)
• The Book of Genesis Illustrated, R. Crumb (extended review)
• "The Carnival," Lilli Carré (extended review)
• Nine Ways to Disappear, Lilli Carré (extended review)
• Unlovable, Volume 1, Esther Pearl Watson (extended review)

2010

• Blue Is the Warmest Color, Julie Maroh (extended review)
• Other Lives, Peter Bagge (extended review)
• "Paul Krugman Is Tired of Trying to Reason with You People," D. B. Echo (extended review)
• The Playwright, Eddie Campbell & Daren White (extended review)

2011

• Hark! A Vagrant!, Kate Beaton (extended review)
• Holy Terror, Frank Miller
• Liar's Kiss, Eric Skillman & Jhomar Soriano

2012

• The Shark King, R. Kikuo Johnson

Other Articles

• All Quacked Up: Steve Gerber, Marvel Comics, and Howard the Duck
• A Critique of Charles Hatfield's Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature
• The Eras of Crumb
• Frazetta in Perspective
• I Prefer Him as a Cartoonist
• Jim Shooter: A Second Opinion
• The Jim Shooter "Victim" Files

           -- Introduction
           -- Tony Isabella
           -- Steve Englehart
           -- Gerry Conway
           -- Mary Skrenes

• Non-Fiction Review: Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert, Bill Schelly
• On Peanuts
• Satire, Racist Imagery, and Robert Crumb
• The Superman Case and Best Outcomes
• Thoughts on Frank Miller and the Sin City Comics and Films