Everyone’s A Critic: The Best Criticism of 2007 round-up that I participated in is now up. You can see my runners-up here.
The choices by the other participants are disappointing to me. Some of them seem to have a strange idea of what constitutes “criticism,” which is a post for another day.
There are a few gems. Bart Beaty’s Unpopular Culture should have been on my list. I never wrote about it, but I did enjoy it.
I’d like to find the time (as reading French takes at least twice as long for me as English) to read Beaty’s and Wivel’s picks: Thierry Groensteen’s Objet Culturel Non-Identifiée and L’Assocation’s third Éprouvette volume (respectively) (a cheaper way to get both volumes would help too).
I can’t argue with any of Jog’s pieces, I didn’t pick one more because I didn’t have any one to single out. His writing feels more like an ongoing continuum.
Edit: My “related posts” feature just brought up another addition to my runners-up list: Tom McCarthy’s Tintin and the Secret of Literature, which I read in 2006 but came out in the US this year.