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
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Any Person Is the Only Self
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Authority: Essays
Reading Genesis
Wrong Norma
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Translating Myself and Others
Ordinary Notes
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
Complaint!
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (The Outsider's Guides)
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
On James Baldwin
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
The Philosophy of Translation
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
A Guest at the Feast
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
Speaking in Tongues
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Essays Two
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
Age of Cage
A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
The Poetics of Wrongness
Horror: A Very Short Introduction
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
No Judgment: Essays – Trenchant Cultural Critique on Technology, Celebrity, and Contemporary Life
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
Homer and His Iliad
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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