Most Read This Week In Criticism

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
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
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark
On Morrison
Authority: Essays
Homer and His Iliad
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Speaking in Tongues
Any Person Is the Only Self
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You)
A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
The Philosophy of Translation
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Reading Genesis
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
A Guest at the Feast
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again – A New York Times Most Anticipated Memoir Collection of Feminism and Literary History
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Complaint!
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
Girl Online: A User Manual
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
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)
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
On James Baldwin (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
The Poetics of Wrongness
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021
Translating Myself and Others
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Books About Books)
Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist
Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
All Incomplete
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
No Judgment: Essays – Trenchant Cultural Critique on Technology, Celebrity, and Contemporary Life
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

Neil Gaiman
“ Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. ”
― Neil Gaiman

Charlotte Brontë
“ Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not b ...more ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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