Warshow (1917-55) was among the inventors of “the criticism of popular culture,” Mr. Denby writes. If Warshow wrung a sizable ...

“C riticism” is a curiously protean word. In academic discourse, as in ordinary speech, it can refer simply to the act of appraisal, sometimes with a censorious edge. It’s used to describe reviews, ...

As sure as the holiday season brings televised showings of How The Grinch Stole Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life, no sooner does the calendar turn to December than the culture pages of media ...

Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote in the mid-seventeenth century—among them “A Degenerate Noble,” “A Huffing Courtier,” “A Small Poet,” and “A Romance Writer”—the ...

Many scholars aspire to write cultural criticism. Few succeed. In my neck of the woods, the preeminent cultural critics have tended to be nonacademics—like James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Dwight ...

Los Angeles Times Food Editor Daniel Hernandez has won the National Press Club’s Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism for examining the Latino “cultural zeitgeist.” The honor is part of the ...

On this week’s bonus episode, Slate music critic Carl Wilson sticks around to join Julia, Dana, and Steve for a conversation inspired by Charlotte Klein in New York Magazine that asks: do media ...

A s a precocious child in the early 1940s, the American philosopher Richard Rorty became a connoisseur of exotic flowers. His passion sent him hunting for wild orchids in the mountains of northwestern ...

"The Male Gazed" combines pop culture criticism with a moving coming-of-age story Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

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Last week, Michelle Goldberg penned a perplexing-to-me piece for the New York Times op-ed page about the crisis of contemporary taste. Goldberg is here to tell you that culture is no good now. She ...

Awkwafina addressed long-standing criticism of her "blaccent" and appropriation of Black culture in a lengthy statement posted to Twitter on Saturday, acknowledging that she is "still learning and ...