Criticism

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

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
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Coventry: Essays
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
White
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
Ordinary Notes
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Literary Theory: An Introduction
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Orientalism
Ways of Seeing
Anatomy of Criticism
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
How Fiction Works
Mythologies
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
A Room of One’s Own
Poetics
Aspects of the Novel
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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Books about TV
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Contemporary Gift Book Ideas
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Algonquin Round Table
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E.A. Bucchianeri
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Winston S. Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ...more
Winston Churchill

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