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I just love it -- the voice in the wilderness, the moral conviction, the whole martyred air of it all, as if Wyllie and Snyder were a couple of Freedom Riders on a southbound bus to Montgomery, and not, you know, one corporate carnivore urging another to stuff some legal papers down a critic's throat.

If Dan Snyder's Lawsuit Is A 'Publicity Stunt,' It Is The Worst Publicity Stunt Ever Jason Linkins 2011

And while you're at it, please watch the Critic's Choice and see this critic's all-time top choice Bob Dylan perform for another enduring modern master.

David Wild: Music Plus Film = Martin Scorsese: A Playlist For the Critics' Choice David Wild 2012

His fiery poem "I'll Explain Some Things" answered critic's questions about his recent focus on Spain -- where he was living at the time -- rather than on his home country.

John Lundberg: Was Pablo Neruda Murdered? John Lundberg 2011

His fiery poem "I'll Explain Some Things" answered critic's questions about his recent focus on Spain -- where he was living at the time -- rather than on his home country.

John Lundberg: Was Pablo Neruda Murdered? John Lundberg 2011

His fiery poem "I'll Explain Some Things" answered critic's questions about his recent focus on Spain -- where he was living at the time -- rather than on his home country.

John Lundberg: Was Pablo Neruda Murdered? John Lundberg 2011

It's in the pieces on American writers that the critic's own literary self-fashioning starts to cohere: Bloom's great influence is not Shakespeare or Yeats, but Emerson.

The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review 2011

He becomes so involved with his subject that the critic's urge to judge, to rank, to analyze is relinquished to a ravishing attachment to the work of a person who once lived.

The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011

Wisely, at least in this critic's opinion, the U.S. dollar "Price Guide" has been omitted from this new volume, since more than anything else it likely lead to confusion for the buying public, with the potential of putting up barriers between artists and prospective customers.

Mexican Folk Art from Oaxacan Artist Families by Arden Aibel and Anya Leah Rothstein 2009

It being a critic's job to pick nits, here are three:

Lovable, Huggable, And Unscrupulous Too Terry Teachout 2011

His fiery poem "I'll Explain Some Things" answered critic's questions about his recent focus on Spain -- where he was living at the time -- rather than on his home country.

John Lundberg: Was Pablo Neruda Murdered? John Lundberg 2011