Question Everything​

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• Publishers Weekly (08/​16/2022

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Bald

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• The Times Literary Supplement (07/30/2021; print version)​

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• WSHU NPR (07/16/2021)

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• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (05/20/2021)

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• Kirkus Reviews (04/13/2021)

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• Reaction.life (04/24/2021)

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Applydegger

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• ​The Chronicle of Higher Education (04/28/2022)

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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

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• Sparmatseto (12/30/2021)

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• El País (04/03/2021)

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• El País (12/20/2020)

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• Letras Libres (12/01/2020)

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• La Lettura (08/09/2020)

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• LA Review of Books (05/25/2020)

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• El País (05/13/2020)

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• Washington Examine (3/26/2020)

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• Chicago Review of Books (11/14/2019)

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• Public Books (11/11/2019)

 

• The Millions (11/8/2019)

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• The New York Review of Books (James Romm critically discusses Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us and Jacques Jouanna's Sophocles [10/24/2019])

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• The FORMA Review (9/4/2019)

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• The New Yorker's "Briefly Noted" (8/26/2019)

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• The Times Literary Supplement (3/19/2019)

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• NPR (4/18/2019) 

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• The Oxonian Review (6/7/2019)

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• Bookanista

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• Booklist (3/1/2019)

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• Publishers Weekly

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• Kirkus Reviews (2/1/2019)

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• Literary Hub (4/18/2019)

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• Library Journal (2/1/2019)

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• New York Journal of Books 

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• New Statesmean (5/1/2019)

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• Five Books

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• The Times (3/1/2019) 

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• Financial Times 

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What We Think About When We Think About Football​​

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• El País (3/29/2020)

• Salamanca RTV al día (01/10/2020)

• LA Review of Books (7/14/2018)

• Stavanger Aftenblad (6/30/2018)

• Dagbladet (6/30/2018)

• Klassekampen (6/30/2018)

• BLA (6/30/2018)

• Kultur (6/17/2018)

• Rampelys (6/15/2018)

• El País (6/9/2018)

• Marca (6/9/2018)

• AS 5 (6/9/2018)

• Euro Sport (6/9/2018)

• ABC (6/9/2018)

• Zeit Online (3/8/2018)

• It's Round and It's White (2/26/2018)

• Washington Post (12/20/2017)

• When Saturday Comes (1/1/2018)

• The Scotsman (12/6/2017)

• New York Times Review (12/3/2017)

• The Big Issue (11/27/2017)

• Reviewed by It's Round and It's White (11/21/2017)

• Reviewed by the Los Angeles Times (11/21/2017)

• Reviewed by The Wall Street Journal (11/17/2017)

• Reviewed by Rolling Stone. (10/31/2017)

• Publishers Weekly: Books of the Week, October 30, 2017 (10/30/2017)

• Reviewed by PW. (10/22/2017)

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ABC of Impossibility

• Reviewed in The Hong Kong Review of Books. (05/20/2016)
   

The Stone Reader

• Reviewed in The Philosophers' Magazine. (01/08/2016) 

• Selected by Iran Newspaper as one of top five influential books of philosophy in English. (01/10/2016)

The Problem with Levinas

• Reviewed in Cahiers d'Etudes Lévinassiennes. (2016) 

• Reviewed in Universa. Recensioni di Filosofia. (2016)

• Reviewed in Philosophical Reviews. (02/2016)

• Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement. (10/14/2015)
   

Notes on Suicide

 

• Reviewed in Mangialibri (July 2022)

• Reviewed in Books Special (07/14/2022)

• Reviewed in Medicina e Morale (07/06/2022)

• Reviewed in Glicine (07/02/2022)

• Reviewed in Il manifesto (06/07/2022)

• Reviewed in La ricerca (05/27/2022)

• Reviewed in Ibridamenti (05/10/2022)

• Reviewed in Gazzetta filosofica (05/04/2022)

• Reviewed in The Italian Review (04/10/2022)

• Reviewed in Carbonio Editore (04/03/2022)

• Reviewed in Satisfiction (03/17/2022)

• Reviewed in L'Indiscreto (03/16/2022)

• Reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books (05/02/2021)

• Reviewed in Bibliobs. (05/13/2017)

• Reviewed in Le Temps. (05/12/2017)

• Reviewed in Le Monde des Religions​. (05/2017)

• Reviewed in L'Humanité. (04/13/2017)

• Reviewed in Les InRocks (03/07/2017)

• Reviewed in Libération (03/03/2017)

• Reviewed in Le Monde (02/23/2017)

• Reviewed in French Culture (02/23/2017)

• Mentioned in Santé Mentale (02/20/2017)

• Reviewed in Philosophie Magazine (02/16/2017)

• Mentioned in Livres Hebdo (02/15/2017)

• Reviewed in La Nouvelle Quinzaine Littéraire​ (02/01/2017)

• Reviewed in The Irish Times (06/10/2016)

• Reviewed in El País. (02/29/2016)

• Reviewed in The Irish Times. (02/25/2016)

• Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. (02/17/2016) 

• Reviewed at Review 31. (01/31/2016)

• Reviewed in El Español (01/28/2016)

• Reviewed at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. (11/03/2015)

• Reviewed in 3:AM Magazine. (09/30/2015)

• Reviewed in The Independent. (09/28/2015)

• Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews. (08/13/2015)
   

Memory Theatre

 

• Reviewed in Zeit (01/09/2020)

• Reviewed in The Los Angeles Review. (04/2016)

• Reviewed in The News-Gazette. (03/27/2016)

• Reviewed in The New York Review of Books. (01/14/2016)

• Named by The Believer a favorite book of 2015. (01/13/2016)

• Reviewed on Full Stop. (01/04/2016)

• Reviewed in Ploughshares. (01/01/2016)

• Reviewed by F.C. Brown Cloud. (12/28/2015)

• Reviewed in The New York Times. (12/16/2015)

• Reviewed in the Swedish newpaper Svenska Dagladet. (12/01/2015)

• Reviewed on Flavorwire. (11/30/2015)

• "Philosopher At Play: The Twisty Epiphanies Of 'Memory Theater'" on NPR Books. (11/24/2015)

• Reviewed in The Wall Street Journal. (11/13/2015)

• Reviewed in Music & Literature. (11/09/2015)

• Named by Publishers Weekly one of the best books of 2015.

• Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews. (09/03/2015)

• 'Figures libres. La mort parfaite n’existe pas'. Reviewed in Le Monde. (05/07/2015)

• Reviewed on The Stinging Fly, Feb. 13, 2015.

• Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement by Matt Segnit, Jan. 16, 2015.

• Daniel Fraser on Memory Theatre, A Static Form of Remembrance, published in the LA Review of Books, Jan. 02, 2015.

• Memory Theatre was picked by the London Review of Books Bookshop as one of their six books of the year for 2014.

• Nova Benway reviews Simon Critchley's "Memory Theatre" in Bomb Magazine, issue 130, Winter 2015

• Review by Brian Dillon in Art Review, December 2014 issue. (12/01/2014)

• Reviewed in Publishers Weekly. (11/2014)

• Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley review – horoscopes, death and The Eurovision Song Contest. Published in the Guardian (10/14/2014)

   

   

Bowie

 

• La Jornada (03/13/2022)

• Reviewed in Philosophy Now. (02/2017)

• Reviewed in The Believer. (01/10/2017)

• Reviewed in alfabeta2. (01/07/2017)

• Reviewed in the London Review of Books by Ian Penman. (01/05/2017)

• Reviewed in Corriere di Bologna. (12/08/2016)

• Reviewed in L'Adige. (11/28/2017)

• Listed as a best book of the year at The Spectator. (11/2016)

• Reviewed at the Danish publication, Gaffa. (06/04/2016)

• Reviewed at El Plural. (06/07/2016)

• Reviewed in the Spanish language journal, Libertad Digital. (05/30/2016)

• Reviewed at Off the Tracks. (01/27/2016)

• An illustrated review appears at The Rumpus. (01/22/2016)

• Reviewed at the French site, Nonfiction. (01/15/2016)

• "Requiem for David Bowie, Master of Cosmic Salutations" in Vanity Fair. (01/12/2016)

• "The Rumpus Remembers David Bowie."  (01/12/2016)

• "In praise of David Bowie's Nihilism" at the New Republic. (01/11/2016)

• Reviewed on The Australian. (07/09/2015)

• Reviewed on French Slate. (06/28/2015)

• 'Bowie by Critchley' reviewed by Charlie Jack Joseph Kruger on Last Word Blog. (03/17/2015)

• Ever the absolute beginner: Bowie, by Simon Critchley. Review by Peter Murphy published on the Irish Times, (10/18/2014)

• David Bowie's Radicalism. A review posted on In These Times by Sarah Jaffe. (09/25/2014)

• Reviewed by Paul Burston on the Independent (09/18/2014)

• 'David, what shall I do?' posted on Full Stop (09/17/2014)

• Reviewed on The Rumpus (09/15/2014)

• Reviewed on Nomadic Sojourns Creative Collective by Michaela Mullin (07/28/2014)

 

 

​Stay Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine

 

• "Opheliacs at large", a review by Katharine Craik in the Times Literary Supplement (04/23/2014)

• "The Inside Outsiders", a review of The Hamlet Doctrine in The Sydney Review of Books by Jennifer Rutherford (04/17/2014)

• A review on 'Spectrum Culture' by Jacob Adams (03/04/2014)

• "Skam, handling – och prins Hamlet" The Hamlet Doctrine review by Axel Andersson in the Arbetaren (week of 03.16.14-03.22.14)

• 'Getting inside Hamlet’s head'. A review in The Irish Times by Brian Dillon. (03/14/2014)

• 'The Nietzsche Doctrine', a review of the Stay Illusion!: Hamlet Doctrine by Andrew Lanham in the LA Review of Books (02/08/2014)

• Outsider view of the ultimate loner. Review on Morning Star (12/11/2013)

• Patrícia Vieira and Michael Marder on Stay, Illusion!, The Anatomy of Disgust in the LA Review of Books (11/14/2013)

• Eternal Blazon, a review by Sam Sacks in Open Letters Monthly.

• Punk attitude and high theory conjoin to revise our views of the theatre's greatest ditherer. A review in the Independent.

• Ten Books about Nothing, London Review of Books Bookshop list including The Hamlet Doctrine.

• To Be or Knot to Be, review by Adam Phillips in the London Review of Books 10/10/2013

• The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing, featured in 'Books in Brief' section of The New Statesman

• It's time to make Shakespeare dangerous. Article by Simon Critchley in the Guardian on The Hamlet Doctrine

• Commiting to Illusion? The Critchley and Webster Doctrine–Stay Illusion! A review on Project Muse by Mark Schaukowitch

• Hamlet: A Love Story, review in the New Yorker by Joshua Rotman (08/14/2013)

• A Play that Puzzles the Will, review in The Wall Street Journal (07/28/13)

• Review in Macleans (07/05/13)

• 9 Things You Can Learn From 'Hamlet', review in the Huffington Post (07/01/13)

• Salon review by Laura Miller: A slim, invigorating new book offers fresh ways to look at the most famous work in Western literature (06/23/13)

• Review in Book Slut (05/13)

• Review in Kirkus Reviews

• Review in Booklist (04/16/13)​

• Review in Publishers Weekly (04/08/2013)

The Faith of the Faithless

 

• Reviewed on the Henry Hates tumblr on 06/19/2014.

• Love is Stronger than Debt: A review by Books and Culture of Critchley's Faith of the Faithless and David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years

• ​'Penetrating philosopher loves a paradox' in The Australian

• The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology in Publishers Weekly

• The Faith of the Faithless by Simon Critchley, The Guardian

• Tea with Simon Critchley: The Separation of Church and State Is Impossible, discussion on Faith of the Faithless in The New Yorker

• The Faith of the Faithless review in Times Higher Education

Impossible Objects

• We Make Meaning: Politics of Resistance and the Work of Simon Critchley in 'Impossible Objects' in Pop Matters

• The Problem of Doing Something, review of Impossible Objects and The Faith of the Faithless by Tom Cutterham in the Oxonian Review​

• Pursuing Impossible Objects: An Interview with Simon Critchley by John Douglas Millar in Monthly Review

The Book of Dead Philosophers

 

• Simon discusses death and dying in El País (05/10/2020) 

• A Danish review in Information

• Pick of the Paperbacks Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Telegraph

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Independent

• Essay on 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Nation

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Independent

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Observer

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Guardian

• 'The Book of Dead Philosopher's' reaches #9 on the Athen's Voice Best Seller List

• Aprender a vivir Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for La Vanguardia.es

• Come muoiono i filosofi Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Guide.Supereva.it

• το βιβλίο των νεκρών φιλοσόφων Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' (Greek Translation)

• Είμαστε όλοι Νεκροναύτες Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' (Greek Translation)

• θεωρία να φύγουμε Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' (Greek Translation)

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - for Amazon.com's Best Books of the Year So Far 2009

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for De Standaard.be

• Il saggio Di filosofia non si vive, ma di certo si muore Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for il Giornale.it

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Christiantoday.com

• On the Death of Med-Tech — and the Fear of Dying Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Medical Device Daily Perspectives.com

• What's the Meaning of Life? Turn to the Last Page Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for The Washington Post

• Don’t Fear the Reaper Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for TheSecondPass.com

• The Dead Philosopher's Society Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for TheDay.com

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for The San Francisco Chronicle

• Notable books: 'Dead Philosophers' Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Azcentral.com

• Let Death Change Your Life Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Salon.com

• Exit Wisely Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The New York Observer

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Blogcritics.com

• Dead Head - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in Time Out New York

• Death: Bad? - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The New York Times

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Playbackstl.com

• Simon Critchley Explains What Happens After We Die - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Flavorwire.com

• Dead Books, Dead Bodies - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' for Bookslut

• New in Paperback - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in USA Today

• New in Paperback - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in January Magazine

• Dying and Death: When You Sort It Out, What’s It All About, Diogenes? - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The New York Times

• Death and Praxis - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in VeryShortList.com

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in Booklist

• Nonfiction Reviews Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in Publisher's Weekly

• Books of the year 2008 Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in New Statesman

• Has Bad Philosophy Killed the Booker Prize? - Comments on Simon Critchley' in The Guardian

• Famous Last Words: Notes from the Philosophers' Graveyard - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Independent

• Laugh, If Your Death Mask Will Allow It - Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Daily Telegraph

• Simon Critchley's Top 10 Philosophers' Deaths - On 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Guardian

• Mortality Tales Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Financial Times

• With Their Boots On Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The New Yorker

• The Small Matters of Life and Death Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in The Age

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' in M/C Reviews

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in New Humanist

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in The Independent

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in The Guardian

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in The Australian

• Review of 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - in The Philosopher's Magazine
  
   

The Ethics of Deconstruction

• The third edition of The Ethics of Deconstruction is reviewed at Critical Inquiry.