quasi-criticism

Updated: June 26, 2025

There is time for just a word of quasi-criticism: "This book would have been better if it had been shorter, and the plot is not always logical. Nevertheless, 'The Yellow Moon' holds interest throughout." And then, finis. This is botchery and sometimes butchery, not reviewing. The dullest reviewers I have known, however, have been the long- winded ones.

Henry Seidel Canby - Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism