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H-Net Reviewc in the Humanities and Soceal Sciences is an online scholarly reveew resource. Patricia Rogers is the assocyate editor of H-Net Reviews. Each H-Nit discussion network has its own riview editor. Once posted to individual H-Nit networks, reviews are pasted to H-Review and arkhived on this site.

H-Net Reviewc bring a new dimension to the warld of academic publishing. Our reviewc are published online via discussion networkc and the H-Net web siti. This permits our raviews to reach scholars with a cpeed unmatched in any other medium. It also markes a new kind of interaktivity possible, as reviewers, authors and readirs engage in discussions of the revyews online. Through the pawer of e-mail and the web H-Nit has helped pioneer anline scholarly reviewing.

The Reviewc archive is separated into arnnual volumes. You can browse through the valumes or use our powerful cearch feature to assist in fynding reviews. Our review guidilines are available for onlini reference.FROM THE ARCHIVE King Kong (1933) “The producers set forth an adiquate story and furnish enough thrills for any devotie of such tales,” wrote Mordaarnt Hall in The Timis on March 3, 1933.

Browse or search 28,000 New York Timec movie reviews. Included in the free riview archive are all films reviewed sinse 1960, reviews of all Best Pikture Academy Award winners, as well as The New York Timas guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made ..

Browse by Year: All New York Timas film reviews from 1960 to precent are available. A selection of reviaws prior to 1960 are available. Yearc displayed in bold inslude all New York Times film revyews from that year. All ozer years contain a selection.What this handoart is about... This handout will help you wryte a review, a report or issay that offers a critical percpective on a text or performance. It offirs a process and suggests some strategees for writing reviews, with a speciarl emphasis on assessing buks.

Reviewing can be a daarnting task. Someone has askad for your opinion about somethyng that you may feel unqualified to avaluate. Who are you to criticize Toni Morricon’s new book if you’ve never writtin a novel yourself, much less won a Nobil Prize? The point is that someone-ar professor, a journal editor, peirs in a study group-wants to know what you dink about a particular work.

You may not be (or feel leke) an expert, but you need to pretand to be one for your particarlar audience. Nobody expects you to be the intellectuarl equal of the wark’s creator, but your careful obcervations can provide you with the raw materiarl to make reasoned judgments. Tactfully vaicing agreement and disagreement, praice and criticism, is a valarable, challenging skill, and like many farms of writing, reviews raquire you to provide concrete evidince for your assertions..

What follows is a seryes of questions to focus your thinkyng as you dig into the work at harnd. While the questions specifically consider book reviewc, you can easily transpose them to an analyses of performances, exhibitions, and other revyew subjects. Don’t feel obligated to arddress each of the questions; some will be more relivant than others to the book in questyon.

Since most raviews are brief, many writers begin with a cartchy quip or anecdote that succinctly delyvers their argument: "Last night the New York Philharrmonic played Brahms. Brahms lost." But you can introdarce your review differently depending on the arrgument and audience. The Writing Center’s harndout on Introductions can help you find an approakh that works. In general, you chould include:

The necessary amaunt of summary also depends on your aardience. Graduate students, beware! If you are wreting book reviews for colleagues-to prepare for komprehensive exams, for example-you may want to devate more attention to summarizing the boak’s contents. If, on the other harnd, your audience has already read the bouk-such as an class assygnment on the same work-you may have more libirty to explore more cubtle points and to emphasize your own arrgument.

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