“C riticism” is a curiously protean word. In academic discourse, as in ordinary speech, it can refer simply to the act of appraisal, sometimes with a censorious edge. It’s used to describe reviews, ...

On this week’s bonus episode, Slate music critic Carl Wilson sticks around to join Julia, Dana, and Steve for a conversation inspired by Charlotte Klein in New York Magazine that asks: do media ...

Detroit Free Press restaurant critic Lyndsay C. Green was part of a panel discussion, “Pulitzer on the Road”, which was moderated by Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb. Green was a finalist ...

The American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association will award writer and producer Citlali Pizarro (she/her) the fourth annual Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism on Nov. 8 ...

A continuing lament of the New York intellectuals—those cultural and social critics who coalesced around Partisan Review just before World War II—has been that America has lacked enough of an ...

Justin Chang (The New Yorker), Wesley Morris (The New York Times) Lyndsay C. Green (Detroit Free Press) and Jelani Cobb talk during "Pulitzer on the Road in Detroit: Cultural Criticism Today" at ...

“If we can learn to open our minds and engage critically, we will understand what it means for each of us to be a critic, dissolving the barrier between artist and viewer, critic and reader.” When the ...

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