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
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
On Morrison
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Authority: Essays
Ordinary Notes
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
Speaking in Tongues
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Translating Myself and Others
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
Any Person Is the Only Self
Reading Genesis
No Judgment: Essays – Trenchant Cultural Critique on Technology, Celebrity, and Contemporary Life
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Complaint!
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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
Blackface (Object Lessons)
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch (The Outsider's Guides)
A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Girl Online: A User Manual
The Philosophy of Translation
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
A Guest at the Feast
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
Homer and His Iliad
In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Books About Books)
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again – A New York Times Most Anticipated Memoir Collection of Feminism and Literary History
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
Age of Cage
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
The Poetics of Wrongness
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
On James Baldwin (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)
Horror: A Very Short Introduction
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment
Gothic: An Illustrated History
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence (Encyclopocalypse Originals)
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books

Will Self
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Will Self

Winston S. Churchill
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop.
Winston Churchill

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