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books are often your best bet for biographical information or literary criticism! If you are looking for criticism about a specific work (especially a poem or short story), search the author's name as a keyword or subject, then use the book's index to locate info on the particular work.

For finding scholarly articles on a variety of topics.

for finding scholarly articles. JSTOR does not usually have the most recent years of a journal.

for finding biographical information about an author, as well as snippets of criticism.

Best for plot summaries, book reviews, poems, and short stories. You can also find scholarly criticism.

This "search everything" tool searches the library catalog and multiple databases--all at once. Find scholarly articles, books, book reviews, interviews, popular magazine articles, etc.