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"

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Cinema Speculation
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
White
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Translating Myself and Others
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
Coventry: Essays
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
Movies (And Other Things)
You Get What You Pay For: Essays
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Complaint!
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
No Judgment: Essays
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Essays One
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
The Sopranos Sessions
Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
A Guest at the Feast
The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan
Ordinary Notes
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
This Is Shakespeare
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
A Little History of Poetry
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War
Humour
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Essays Two
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop, 13)
Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Books About Books)
Ornamentalism
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor
Nobody's Looking at You: Essays
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race
Chaucer: A European Life
The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Great Short Books: A Year of Reading―Briefly
Maroon Choreography (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Missing Time: Essays
Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
Busted in New York and Other Essays
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books
What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper (New American Canon)
Gothic: An Illustrated History
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
Balzac's Lives
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

E.A. Bucchianeri
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