Books written by David Denby

  • Snark
    Snark

    In this highly entertaining essay, Denby traces the history of snark through the ages, starting with its invention as personal insult in the drinking clubs of ancient Athens, tracking its development all the way to the age of the Internet, ...

  • Do the Movies Have a Future?
    Do the Movies Have a Future?

    ... claims, reference points, agreements, outraged and dulcet tweets, rebuttals, summations, dismissals. Critic-scholars like Jonathan Rosenbaum, Girish Shambu, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Jim Emerson, and Richard Brody hold forth on new and ...

  • Great Books
    Great Books

    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the ...

  • Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.
    Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.

    In a sea of bad news about education and the fate of the book, David Denby reaffirms the power of great teachers and the importance and inspiration of great literature.

  • Grandi libri. Le mie avventure con Omero, Rousseau, Woolf e gli altri immortali del canone occidentale
    Grandi libri. Le mie avventure con Omero, Rousseau, Woolf e gli altri immortali del canone occidentale

    Tra i testi femministi aveva infine selezionato Il secondo sesso di Simone de Beauvoir , di cui leggemmo soltanto due sezioni : l'introduzione e lo straordinario nono capitolo , « Miti » . Il secondo sesso era stato pubblicato in ...

  • Do the Movies Have a Future?
    Do the Movies Have a Future?

    At the same time, Denby reaffirms that movies are our national theater, and in this exhilarating book he celebrates such central big movies as Avatar and The Social Network as well as small but resonant triumphs like There Will Be Blood and ...

  • American Sucker
    American Sucker

    ... American. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999. ——. Do Americans Shop Too Much? Boston: Beacon Press, 2000. Schor, Juliet B., and Holt, Douglas B., editors. The Consumer Society Reader. New York: The New Press, 2000. Sennett, Richard. The ...