Everyone’s a Critic

“I know what I like” is a common refrain when opinions are voiced about books, artworks, films, food and much else besides. So where does that leave the critic? Beejay Silcox and Lauren Oyler discuss whether any authority is allowed to critics in a world ruled by personal beliefs and perspectives.

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Lauren Oyler is the author of the novel Fake Accounts. Her essays on books and culture appear regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Times, London Review of Books, Harper’s and other publications, and she has just released a collection of these writings called No Judgment.

Beejay Silcox is an Australian writer and critic, and the Artistic Director of Canberra Writers Festival. Beejay’s literary criticism and cultural commentary regularly appears in national arts publications and is increasingly finding an international audience, including in the Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. Her award-winning short fiction has been published at home (including in Meanjin, Westerly and ABR) and abroad, and has also been anthologised.

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