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Sandy Close, recipient of the 2012 I.F. Stone Medal, has made a career out of helping ethnic communities and the dispossessed tell their own stories

Close asked Mark O’Brien, confined to an iron lung, to write about sex and disability. A documentary she co-produced about him won an Oscar. Photo by Paul Sakuma/The Associated Press.RELATED…

Why drama critics must look at and look after the theater

The critic’s calling is to elevate the good and ignore the bad

Robert Christgau reflects on the art of writing well about music

When everybody’s a critic, what’s the role of a professional reviewer?

A critic-turned-novelest explores the borders between journalism and fiction

Pulitzer-winner Blair Kamin schools Harvard students in the art of architecture criticism

How the roles of curator and critic can be complementary rather than combative

“If you are counting full-time critic jobs at newspapers, you may as well count tombstones.” That was the response of Johanna Keller, director of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at…