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
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Cinema Speculation
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
On Morrison
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
Speaking in Tongues
Authority: Essays
Reading Genesis
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Any Person Is the Only Self
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
Ordinary Notes
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
Complaint!
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
No Judgment: Essays – Trenchant Cultural Critique on Technology, Celebrity, and Contemporary Life
The Philosophy of Translation
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
Translating Myself and Others
Age of Cage
On James Baldwin (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
Blackface (Object Lessons)
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
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (The Outsider's Guides)
A Guest at the Feast
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Horror: A Very Short Introduction
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
The Poetics of Wrongness
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
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
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales
Homer and His Iliad
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

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

W. Somerset Maugham
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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