In a year full of devastating finishes, five stood apart for the silence they created afterward. These are 2025's boxing ...

A simple way to drown out criticisms is to silently tell yourself affirmations while you are being criticized. But practice ...

Susan Sontag was against interpretation. Laura Kipnis was against love. Seven were against Thebes. Mark Greif is against everything. That’s the title of his new book, the subtitle of which is “Essays.

“I’m so stupid!” “I’m a failure.” “I’m just so ugly.” “I’m so weak.” “I can’t do anything right!” These are just a few examples of internal dialogue voiced by individuals plagued by the tendency to be ...

The Senate minority leader from Brooklyn said “it goes with the territory” to be a lightning rod for harsh attacks from ...

Criticism can be hard to take; it’s little surprise that being afraid of it in the workplace is extremely common. But it’s important to understand criticism is not the same as feedback. While both ...

If Oscars are the pinnacle of Tinsletown praise, negative reviews by film critics surely are the depths. Worse yet, the sting of criticism has a proven staying power, giving new meaning to the song ...

Many people struggle to handle criticism and perceive it as hurtful in many aspects of life — whether it’s coming from a partner, a parent, or even a boss at work — according to a PLOS One study, but ...

How we give our feedback influences how it is heard. If you’re a Harry Potter fan, you’re familiar with the idea of a “howler.” In the wizarding world, irate parents can send a magical letter that ...

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 ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. What, exactly, is the point of architecture criticism? The word “criticism” is derived from the Greek term krinein, meaning to separate, to sift, ...