literary review
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A literary review is a publication or section devoted to criticism and discussion of books and writing.
It may also mean a critical essay evaluating a particular work of literature.
Major literary reviews like the *Paris Review* or *London Review of Books* publish essays, interviews, and new fiction alongside criticism: Her story appeared in a prestigious literary review.
- critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis
- essayShort argumentative prose work
- critical essayEvaluative analysis of art
- journalRecord of daily events
- magazineBound periodical with articles
New Yorker · analysis · commentary · criticism · think piece · quarterly · publication · small press · books · editor · editorial board · prose · fiction · pages · opinion · long read · scholarly · byline
- magazinesmagazine, issue, periodical, publication, design magazine
- criticismcriticism, critique, feedback, opinion, judgment
- critical essaysart critique, analysis, close reading, interpretation, explication
- early literatureessay, novel, pamphlet, early novels, treatise
- Humanities Journalsreligious studies, medieval studies
- reviewsrating, ratings, critic, critics, critique
literary reviewsynopsis
Condensed version of content
plot summary · book description · quick summary · précis · abstract
literary reviewtabloid
Sensationalist newspaper format
gossip column · pulp fiction · beach read · supermarket tabloid · entertainment news
literary reviewfilm review
Assessment of a motion picture
movie review · music review · theater review · restaurant review
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