Most Read This Week In Criticism

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"

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
Homer and His Iliad
Ordinary Notes
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again – A New York Times Most Anticipated Memoir Collection of Feminism and Literary History
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Authority: Essays
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
A Guest at the Feast
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Complaint!
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World
The Philosophy of Translation
Speaking in Tongues
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (The Outsider's Guides)
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
Reading Genesis
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
Translating Myself and Others
Age of Cage
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
Essays Two
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
Girl Online: A User Manual
The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (ASTERISK)
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
On James Baldwin (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)
Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Any Person Is the Only Self
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
No Judgment: Essays – Trenchant Cultural Critique on Technology, Celebrity, and Contemporary Life
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Horror: A Very Short Introduction
The Poetics of Wrongness

W. Somerset Maugham
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

François de La Rochefoucauld
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

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