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
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Cinema Speculation
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Authority: Essays
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Reading Genesis
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
On Morrison
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (The Outsider's Guides)
Any Person Is the Only Self
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
Translating Myself and Others
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Ordinary Notes
Speaking in Tongues
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Horror: A Very Short Introduction
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
A Life of One's Own: Life of One's Own, A EPB: Nine Women Writers Begin Again – A New York Times Most Anticipated Memoir Collection of Feminism and Literary History
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
Age of Cage
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
On James Baldwin (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)
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
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Complaint!
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales
Homer and His Iliad
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
A Guest at the Feast
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
The Poetics of Wrongness
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
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
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
The Philosophy of Translation
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist
A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

Virginia Woolf
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Shannon L. Alder
Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
Shannon L. Alder

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