Criticism

Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in a sometimes negative, sometimes intelligible, (or articulate) way.

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Cinema Speculation
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art
Reading Genesis
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
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 Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (The Outsider's Guides)
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Translating Myself and Others
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Ways of Seeing
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Anatomy of Criticism
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
A Room of One’s Own
Orientalism
Mythologies
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
How Fiction Works
Aspects of the Novel
Poetics
On Photography
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Live from New York by Tom ShalesThe Revolution Was Televised by Alan SepinwallBreaking Bad by David  ThomsonGolden Girls Forever by Jim ColucciI Want My MTV by Craig Marks
Books about TV
293 books — 50 voters
"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" by Jason ColavitoA Critical History of Old English Literature by Stanley B. GreenfieldComedy by Robert W. CorriganAn Aristocracy of Critics by Stephen BatesCritical Enthusiasm by Jordana Rosenberg
"Critic"
104 books — 4 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldSecond Reading by Jonathan YardleyThe Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Jonathan Yardley's Second Readings
99 books — 8 voters
Twisty Little Passages by Nick MontfortWriting Interactive Fiction With Twine by Melissa  FordThe Craft of Adventure by Graham NelsonThe Spectrum of Adventure by Thomas A. ChristieThe Inform Designer's Manual by Graham Nelson
Text Adventures/Interactive Fiction
50 books — 12 voters


Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“ The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul. ”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Elbert Hubbard
“ To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. ”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

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