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.

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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse – Sharp Cultural Criticism on Feminism, Social Media, and Cults

The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century

The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (The Outsider's Guides)

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night

Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

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

The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History

Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28

Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper (New American Canon)

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)

Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema

Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius

Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope

The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors

Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly

Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment

Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist

Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire

Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)

Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature

Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts

Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

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“ 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

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“ Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. ”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

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