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Criticism

  1. the pulitzer prizes
    New York and Vulture’s Andrea Long Chu Wins Pulitzer Prize for CriticismShe is the magazine’s second winner in five years.
    By Vulture Editors
  2. rip
    Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic for The New Yorker, Dead at 80Schjeldahl, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019, wrote the towering personal essay “The Art of Dying.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  3. good one podcast
    Covering Comedy Is a Window Into the FutureNew York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman discusses his job on this week’s Good One.
    By Jesse David Fox
  4. obits
    The Courage of bell hooksShe viewed her radical work as one of the purest expressions of love for Black people there is.
    By Shamira Ibrahim
  5. obits
    A Black EducationRemembering Greg Tate, critical giant, author, Flyboy, and my teacher.
    By Tirhakah Love
  6. obits
    Stanley Crouch, Influential Jazz Critic and Cultural Commentator, Dead at 74He was an advocate for traditional jazz.
    By Justin Curto
  7. rebecca is a food critic now
    What’s All the Hype About the McDonald’s Travis Scott Meal?Does it come with a toy? Is it worth it? We found out.
    By Rebecca Alter
  8. out with a bang
    Upon Orange Is the New Black’s End, Taryn Manning Says the Show ‘Hurt’ HerHowever, she’s now claiming she was “epically hacked.”
    By Devon Ivie
  9. tv
    Talking With Emily Nussbaum About TV Criticism, Bad Fans, and BuffyA conversation between two New York Magazine TV critics, past and present, about the state of TV.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  10. first person
    I Make Plays. I Write Criticism. I’m Not My Own Enemy.“The artist–critic war of attrition is boring. It’s a cliché.”
    By Sara Holdren
  11. roundtables
    How Do We Talk About Race and Pop Culture Without Going Insane?A panel of critics discuss Wesley Morris’s New York Times essay and some of the biggest anxieties plaguing criticism today.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién, E. Alex Jung, and Miriam Bale
  12. Pete Wells Is Wrong About a Critic’s RoleHe doesn’t want to review a fancy place in Mexico — fine. But there’s more to criticism than giving advice.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. criticism
    Comedy vs. CriticismOn the uneasy relationship between comedy and its critics.
    By Hershal Pandya
  14. deaths
    New York Review of Books Founding Editor Robert Silvers Dead at 87According to the Times, he had been battling a brief illness.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  15. r.i.p.
    Art Critic and Booker Prize–Winning Author John Berger Dead at 90Berger is best known for Ways of Seeing.
    By Tolly Wright
  16. criticism
    Don’t Blame Critics for Suicide Squad’s FailingsIt’s possible that the original Suicide Squad cut was lousy, too. But it would have made considerably more sense.
    By David Edelstein
  17. Why Are Today’s Critics So Defensive?We’re in an age of ambient anxiety about what it means to enjoy things and whether or not others enjoy them, too.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  18. job openings
    The New Yorker’s David Denby Steps Down From Film Critic Post [Updated]To focus on his book.
    By E. Alex Jung
  19. How ‘The X-Files Files,’ ‘Mission Log,’ and ‘Go Bayside!’ Are Introducing […]The recent launch of The X-Files Files, Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani’s second comedy podcast, was both unsurprising and surprising. Fans […]
    By Jimmy J Aquino
  20. Lena Dunham Kind of Enjoys the ‘Girls’ Criticism“People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power. But there’s also this feeling of ‘I could do that, too.’ People […]
    By Bradford Evans
  21. David Foster Wallace and the Comedy NerdMike Schur, showrunner of Parks and Recreation, is obsessed with David Foster Wallace. At Harvard, he made Wallace an honorary member of the […]
    By Blythe Roberson
  22. What Tosh-Gate Says about the State of Comedy Appreciation and Criticism […]When the Daniel Tosh firestorm started my initial reaction was to shrug and say “who cares?” It was a comedian making an off-hand offensive […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  23. criticism
    Music’s Time Capsules: 41 Years of Christgau’s ‘Consumer Guide’Why a legendary column, now gone quiet, still matters. (Hint: lines like “Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home.”)
    By Douglas Wolk
  24. backlash to the backlash
    A Definitive Defense of Vampire WeekendStill, their sweaters are not “prophetic.”
    By Nick Catucci
  25. back that pazz up
    Pazz and Jop Crib Notes: The State of PopWe’ve been trying to digest the new ‘Village Voice’ music poll, but instead, let us regurgitate it.
    By Nick Catucci