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
Irreversible Damage by Abigail ShrierTrans by Helen  JoyceThe End of Gender by Debra SohMaterial Girls by Kathleen StockThe Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
Transgender Critical
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Sim One by Tom AhernFiction à la Carte by Paska D.The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela AckermanBook Title Bible by Scott  LorenzHow Fiction Works by James  Wood
Writing
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The Sage Stone Prophecy by N.S. WikarskiA Day Dead Old by Carmen MartucciThe Poetics of Murder by Glenn W. MostHow to Write a Mystery by Lee ChildAngel of Death by Brian O'Hare
Detective Fiction: The Theory
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Choosing Theo by Victoria AvelineGrim by M.K. EidemStolen by an Alien by Amanda MiloLord of the Storm by Justine DavisEyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell
Hero Considered Less Than
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In a Holidaze by Christina LaurenHenry the Queen’s Corgi by Georgie CrawleyThe Thirteen Days of Christmas by Jenny OvertonA Pride Christmas in Brooklyn by Shelly LaurenstonArthur's Perfect Christmas by Marc Brown
Contemporary Gift Book Ideas
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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

Neil Gaiman
“ Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. ”
― Neil Gaiman

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