A literary critic famous for her scathing reviews of well-known writers such as Roxane Gay and Sally Rooney has had a taste of her own medicine after her latest book got completely scorched in a viral ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “I don’t like posting anymore,” says novelist, essayist, and one of the world’s heavyweight champs of ...

This collection of memoiristic critical essays is by far my most successful book recommendation. It includes a hilarious portrait of Susan Sontag — "Ours was on-again, off-again, semi-friendship, ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way: I am extremely, ridiculously sensitive to other people’s judgment, largely because, as the cliche has it, I’m my own harshest critic, and thus magnify anyone else’s ...

Famed for her fearless literary takedowns, Lauren Oyler adopts a softer tone in the new essay collection “No Judgment.” Credit...Miguel Porlan Supported by By Erin Somers Erin Somers is a reporter for ...

Oyler, for her part, is aware of this, at least to the extent that it puts her in a bind. It places her within a tradition, one where self-doubt is built in. “Critics like me are perennially ...

But two enterprising works of cultural commentary by prominent book reviewers have bucked the trend—“No Judgment” by Lauren Oyler and “All Things Are Too Small” by Becca Rothfeld. Ms. Oyler has earned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When we speak, Oyler has just arrived back in Berlin after a three-week trip across India, which was “suitably distracting” from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let’s get one thing out of the way: I am extremely, ridiculously sensitive to other people’s judgment, largely because, as the ...