Criticism

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

Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Cinema Speculation
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
The Philosophy of Modern Song
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
On Morrison
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
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
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
On Photography
Criticism, Art and Theory in 1970s Britain by JJ CharlesworthLandscapes by John BergerNaked Emperors by Brian SewellWilliam Morris and John Ruskin by John BlewittWilliam Morris, His Art, His Writings, And His Public Life by Aymer Vallance
Art in Britain
15 books — 1 voter

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
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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
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Let's Talk About Love by Carl WilsonIn the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Kim CooperExile on Main Street by Bill JanovitzDummy by R.J. WheatonDusty in Memphis by Warren Zanes
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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
41 books — 18 voters


Joseph Heller
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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

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