Criticism Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/criticism/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Criticism Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/criticism/ 32 32 Authorship After AI https://www.publicbooks.org/authorship-after-ai/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:00:28 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28991 Authorship attribution is helpful if you suspect fraud: for instance, if you believe that Shakespeare wasn’t educated enough to write the plays, or that Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was really ...

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]]> Physical Books, Digital Lives https://www.publicbooks.org/physical-books-digital-lives/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:00:25 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=24029 “On or around December 1910,” Virginia Woolf famously said, “human character changed.” If my memories of December 2010 serve, that’s when social media ...

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]]> Virtual Roundtable on “The Mana of Mass Society” https://www.publicbooks.org/virtual-roundtable-on-the-mana-of-mass-society/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:00:26 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=22586 Many of anthropology’s terms of art are taken from afar. Especially in the half century after 1870 ...

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]]> Poetry in Times of Crisis https://www.publicbooks.org/poetry-in-times-of-crisis/ Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:00:39 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=11402 Even on a college campus, you rarely spot a poem out in the open. When you do, it’s often a sign that something terrible has happened. In the days after the 2016 presidential election, I came across more than one printout of the W. H. Auden poem “September 1, 1939” posted on office doors and […]

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]]> The Rhapsodes of Cinema https://www.publicbooks.org/the-rhapsodes-of-cinema/ Thu, 15 Sep 2016 05:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/the-rhapsodes-of-cinema/ A. O. Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism—released in January of this year, to some fanfare—is a handbook for living by a kind of generalized critical “ideal,” one which combines openness to experience, capacity for discrimination, and respect for humane values and artistic standards. This kind of airy critical sensibility is unobjectionable in and of itself. […]

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