Criticism
Why won’t the BBC debate me?
Trying to bring large, arrogant public institutions to book is exhausting
Kenneth Tynan: a riposte to Equity
Robin Ashenden says the critic would have declared war on an ill-judged edict
An extreme form of criticism
Works by Michelangelo, Velázquez, Rodin, Rothko and Mondrian have all been vandalised for reasons of mental instability or political activism or both, informs Michael Prodger
The death of Theatre Criticism
The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?
Criticising the critic
Criticism is a valuable art but it should never end up as a tool for bullying
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper