Book, Theatre, and Film Reviews

Summon is the UBC Library's meta-discovery tool that searches the UBC Library catalogue as well as multiple databases covering newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. Enter the title of the book using quotation marks and the author's last name.

After your search results display, you can broaden your results to include newspaper reviews: on the left under Content Type uncheck the box Exclude Newspaper Articles.

You can also narrow your results to book reviews only by clicking the Book Review checkbox on the left under Content Type.

1963-present
Literary and critical journal discussing and reviewing important books. Reviews and articles written by "writers who are themselves a major force in world literature and thought."

Reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts.

Excellent source for reviews of Canadian works from newspapers, newswires, news magazines, television and radio transcripts.

Indexes the most important scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences published throughout the 20th century in North America and Europe.

1965-present
Includes book reviews from scholarly journals in the social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Extensive array of translated and English-language news and information compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources.

The Times Digital Archive is a full-image online archive of every page published by The Times [London] from 1785-2008.

Includes over 300,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles featuring the contributions of the world's most influential writers and critics of the 20th and 21st centuries, from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to A.N. Wilson and Christopher Hitchens in the 1990s and 2000s.

Useful for current newspaper, blogs and other reviews available on the Internet. Be sure to use quotation marks when entering the title of the book.

After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has reached a verdict on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English.

Book Marks showcases critics from the most important and active outlets of literary journalism in America, aggregating reviews from over 70 sources—newspapers, magazines, and websites—and averaging them into a letter grade, as well as linking back to their source. Each book’s cumulative grade functions as both a general critical assessment, and, more significantly, as an introduction to a range of voices.