Criticism

Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in a sometimes negative, sometimes intelligible, (or articulate) way.

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Cinema Speculation
Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
Ordinary Notes
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Ways of Seeing
Anatomy of Criticism
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
A Room of One’s Own
Orientalism
Mythologies
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
How Fiction Works
Aspects of the Novel
Poetics
On Photography
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" by Jason ColavitoItalian Horror Films of the 1960s by Lawrence McCallumWar On Critics by Theodore L. ShawResonating Reflex A Critical Investigation Of The Physical An... by John RuddA Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner
'Critic'
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The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy ParkerThe Best of Robert Benchley by Robert BenchleyHarpo Speaks! by Harpo MarxHow to Be a Hermit, or a Bachelor Keeps House by Will CuppyHellfire by David Fleming
Algonquin Round Table
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Winston S. Churchill
“ Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop. ”
― Winston Churchill

E.A. Bucchianeri
“ An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. ”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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