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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Criticism"

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Cinema Speculation
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
On Morrison
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Authority: Essays
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Any Person Is the Only Self
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
Homer and His Iliad
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Horror: A Very Short Introduction
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (The Outsider's Guides)
Speaking in Tongues
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Reading Genesis
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
Ordinary Notes
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
The Philosophy of Translation
Complaint!
A Guest at the Feast
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Maroon Choreography (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
Translating Myself and Others
Age of Cage
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
On James Baldwin (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)
A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
The Poetics of Wrongness
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
No Judgment: Essays – Trenchant Cultural Critique on Technology, Celebrity, and Contemporary Life
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li

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