These indexes are the best tools for locating information on typical college literature assignments. However, literature is published and reviewed in many periodicals other than those listed here. A librarian may suggest other print or electronic indexes depending on your interest. Periodicals are for use in the Library only. Articles include discussions of pedagogy and curriculum, studies of rhetoric, and poetry as well as traditional literary criticism.
Some issues are devoted to individual authors.
The reviewers contributing to this periodical use their reviews as starting points for discussions of large social and political concerns. The major essays and lengthy critiques are provided by some of the best scholars and commentators writing today. Even the letters to the editor provide interesting and challenging reading. Inclusion in the Times' Best-Seller lists, published here, is widely recognized as a measure of a book's commercial success. A separate index published by the New York Times also indexes these book reviews.