When searching for reviews, remember to put in a date filter in all the databases and put phrases in quotation marks.
Example: Trifles AND ("Susan Glaspell" OR Glaspell)
Date Filter: 1916-1920
Glaspell’s coverage of the case that inspired the play Trifles "Glaspell’s inspiration was the true crime story of the murder of John Hossack, a 59-year-old farmer. Working as a journalist at the time of the incident in 1900, Glaspell covered it for the Des Moines Daily News." - Nava Atlas
Spence Databases: Historical Periodicals for Reviews and Criticism
Comprehensive: cross-search all our ProQuest databases at once. It contains access to historical and current newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journal articles. Subject Areas: Arts & Humanities, Business, General Research, Health Sciences & Nursing, Literature, News & Issues, Science & Technology, Social Sciences
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century news coverage.
Journal Articles (Primary for late 20th and 21st Century Reviews and Analysis)
JSTOR provides access to full-text journal articles in the arts, sciences, humanities and social sciences. While you won’t find current journal articles, you will find articles dating from 3-5 years ago to many decades ago.
A place to find contemporary reviews. Be sure to evaluate the source to make sure it is from a reputable author or critic (Google Scholar indexes college writing along with published journal articles and books).
New York Public Library Databases: Spence Databases: Historical Periodicals for Reviews and Criticism
Searchable full-text and page images of all ProQuest Historical Newspaper databases, which include titles related to New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., the American Jewish Newspaper Series, and the United Kingdom.
