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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Criticism"

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Cinema Speculation
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
The Philosophy of Modern Song
On Morrison
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
Any Person Is the Only Self
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)
The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945
Girl Online: A User Manual
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
Authority: Essays
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
Reading Genesis
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again – A New York Times Most Anticipated Memoir Collection of Feminism and Literary History
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
The Philosophy of Translation
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling
On James Baldwin (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)
Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
No Judgment: Essays – Trenchant Cultural Critique on Technology, Celebrity, and Contemporary Life
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
A Guest at the Feast
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
Ordinary Notes
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
Age of Cage
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Speaking in Tongues
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (The Outsider's Guides)
The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (ASTERISK)
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist
Homer and His Iliad
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
All Incomplete
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
The Poetics of Wrongness
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021
Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

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Herman Melville
“ Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. ”
― Herman Melville
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― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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