“Critique (noun): A critical appraisal or commentary, especially of a literary work; an acute review or evaluation, generally with respect to an understood standard or interested public; report. Verb: critique.
‘The New Yorker recently observed, in a memorial note about the late Wolcott Gibbs, that if his written editorial opinions ‘could be released to the world (as they most assuredly can’t be), they would make probably a funnier and sounder critique of creative writing in the late twenties and early thirties than has ever been assembled.’ John Fischer, in Writing in America”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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