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Literary criticism once had an outsize reach, influencing the terms and concepts of disciplines like art and legal studies. With it came an outsize ego. During the 1970s and 80s, the heyday of ...

September is an exciting one in classical music, it’s a month that brings the launch of new seasons from the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphonies as well as several local chamber groups. Next week on ...

Last weekend, I tried something for a review that I had never done before. Normally, I take copious notes during a performance, and refer to them, to a greater or lesser extent depending on how I feel ...

There's been a lot of talk in the past few weeks about cutbacks, or possible cutbacks, in classical-music criticism. Minneapolis! The newspaper's classical critic takes a buyout when cutbacks leave no ...

The Origins of Criticism complements the usual, history-of-ideas approach to the topic precisely by treating criticism as a social as well as a theoretical activity. With unprecedented and penetrating ...