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Whatever is going on in the life of the critic is going to show up in her reading; it can’t not.
Christine Smallwood A Reviewer's Life
Has something been lost over the past twenty years—or does criticism still thrive? What do we do when we talk about art? Have the ways we evaluate books changed? And perhaps most important of all: What do we need from criticism?
Meghan O'Rourke An Introduction to Our Criticism Issue
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