David Denby
The New Yorker
New York, NY, United States
Contact David
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by David:
The Great Hollywood Screenwriter Who Hated Hollywood
Ben Hecht helped invent modern American cinema—while he was making other plans. → Read More
A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster
David Denby writes about Norman Mailer’s reporting from the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in 1968. → Read More
Leonard Bernstein Through His Daughter’s Eyes
On the centenary of his birth, a memoir captures what it’s like being raised by a man with mythic successes and long-held secrets. → Read More
Audiophilia Forever: An Expensive New Year’s Shopping Guide
David Denby writes about prohibitively expensive speakers, turntables, and other setups for listening to music. → Read More
David Denby
David Denby has been a staff writer and film critic at The New Yorker since 1998. His first article for the magazine, “Does Homer Have Legs?,” published in 1993, grew into a book, “Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World,” about reading the literary canon at Columbia University. His other subjects for the magazine have… → Read More
Re-Listening to Leonard Bernstein’s Troubled “Kaddish”
“Kaddish” is difficult because of its ideas—and its pounding insistence on putting those ideas across. → Read More
Toscanini’s Greatest Recorded Performances
An annotated playlist of Arturo Toscanini’s greatest recordings, in honor of his hundred and fiftieth birthday. → Read More
The Toscanini Wars
No maestro was more revered—or more reviled. On the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, it’s time to give him a fair hearing. → Read More
The Toscanini Wars
No maestro was more revered—or more reviled. On the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, it’s time to give him a fair hearing. → Read More
Sebastian Junger’s New Documentary About Syria
David Denby reviews “Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS,” a new documentary from Sebastian Junger to première on National Geographic. → Read More
Sebastian Junger’s New Documentary About Syria
David Denby reviews “Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS,” a new documentary from Sebastian Junger to première on National Geographic. → Read More
Borne Aloft by a Dream of the Smart Home
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, I wondered whether this was a future that would provide happiness. → Read More
Borne Aloft by a Dream of the Smart Home
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, I wondered whether this was a future that would provide happiness. → Read More
Steven Spielberg at Seventy
The director of some of the biggest box-office hits ever is the subject of Molly Haskell’s “Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films.” → Read More
Steven Spielberg at Seventy
The director of some of the biggest box-office hits ever is the subject of Molly Haskell’s “Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films.” → Read More
Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens
Page by page, “Great Expectations” is less hearty than I remembered, and much funnier. → Read More
Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens
Page by page, “Great Expectations” is less hearty than I remembered, and much funnier. → Read More
The Limits of “Grit”
David Denby on “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,” by Angela Duckworth, and the idea of measuring and rewarding grit in schoolchildren. → Read More
The Limits of “Grit”
A best-selling new book promotes doing at the expense of being, and seems indifferent to originality or creativity or even simple thoughtfulness. → Read More
Sex and Sexier
David Denby on censorship, Barbara Stanwyck in “Baby Face,” Mae West in “I’m No Angel,” Myrna Loy in “The Thin Man,” and Katharine Hepburn in “Holiday.” → Read More