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The Illumination Business

Why drama critics must look at and look after the theater

The Reviewer Reviewed

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

Minimize Description, Maximize Observation

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

Consumer Retorts

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

Concision and Clarity

Robert Christgau reflects on the art of writing well about music

But Is It Art?

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

Critical Condition

“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…

The Abnormality of Daily Life

The stench seeps through the walls of the morgue. It wafts through schools, businesses and homes, impregnates clothing, sticks in throats and noses, provokes nausea, obliges one to walk faster.…

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“Exposing the Forces that Grind People Down”

For more than 30 years, author Barbara Ehrenreich has been trying to engage and enrage the public about the devastating impact of poverty in the United States. She’s had some…