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
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
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Authority: Essays
The Philosophy of Modern Song
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Translating Myself and Others
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Ways of Seeing
Anatomy of Criticism
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Orientalism
A Room of One’s Own
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Mythologies
How Fiction Works
Aspects of the Novel
Poetics
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Cat Inside by William S. BurroughsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books by Bukowski and the Beats
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"Bir Gül Bu Karanlıklarda" by Abdullah UçmanZaman ve Hafızanın Kıyısında by Şerif EskinTanpınar'ın Şiir Dünyası by Mehmet KaplanYavaş Yavaş Aydınlanan Tanpınar by Mehmet KaplanKayıp Zamanın İzinde Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar by Mehmet Aydın
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
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"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" by Jason ColavitoItalian Horror Films of the 1960s by Lawrence McCallumWar On Critics by Theodore L. ShawResonating Reflex A Critical Investigation Of The Physical An... by John RuddA Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner
'Critic'
167 books — 5 voters

Sim One by Tom AhernBig Book of Unique Names for Characters by Aimard R.MaknedaFiction à la Carte by Paska D.The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela AckermanHow Fiction Works by James  Wood
Writing
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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
152 books — 54 voters


Winston S. Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ...more
Winston Churchill

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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