Criticism

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

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On Morrison
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Cinema Speculation
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Translating Myself and Others
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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
A Room of One’s Own
Orientalism
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Mythologies
How Fiction Works
Poetics
Aspects of the Novel
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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
153 books — 54 voters
A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length by Roger EbertI Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger EbertA Massive Swelling by Cintra WilsonShit, Actually by Lindy WestAyoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
Funniest Criticism
8 books — 2 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
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Fountainhead by Ayn RandThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Critical Thinking
198 books — 137 voters


C. JoyBell C.
I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me. ...more
C. JoyBell C.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. ...more
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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