New YorkerestThe essential reads from every New Yorker issue

David Denby

David Denby is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of “ Great Books ” and “ Lit Up.”

Read more on The New Yorker →

3 picks · 1997–2018

Featured Picks

Free Choice
the current cinema ·

“The Ninth Day” and “Madagascar.”

Passion at Yale
comment ·

Signed comment about a protest against coed dorms at Yale University... As college students gather in the opening weeks of a new semester, there is, we …