"book criticism" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the analysis of books, such as in this example sentence: "The author of this book criticism is an expert in the field and provides valuable insight into the novel."
Martin Amis, one of my reviewing heroes, made an apt comment once about the special nature of book criticism: he said that art critics, when they review art shows, don't paint pictures about those shows, film critics don't review movies by making movies about them and music critics don't review concerts by composing symphonies.
He started a book criticism column.
This is not book criticism — it's a politically correct picking of nits.
Book criticism, done well, is an art of its own, with its own noble canon and creative challenges and satisfactions.
Not that the city doesn't have a thriving literary culture, with marvellous bookstores, good outlets for book criticism, and many iconic authors.
Inevitably, it will also redefine what it means to practice book criticism, at least for those of us who aspire to write for something like a general audience.
I once met Updike, whom I admired, and in the course of conversation said I had a question for him, one I knew was not original: "You write so frequently and in so many different forms — novels, essays, art and book criticisms, poems — how do you do it?" And he said, "Compared with you sportswriters, I hardly lift pen to paper".
Then, with the backing of Garanti Bank, Kortun established Platform Garanti, an exhibition space that also archived books, criticism and artists' production materials.
Containing Scientific Abstracts of important and interesting Works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; Notices, or Reviews of valuable foreign Books; Criticism on New pieces of Music and Works of Art; and the Literary Intelligence of Europe, etc.
I thought that was the job of the critic--without perspective, what is the point of a book of criticism?
In 1948, Stanley Edgar Hyman published a book on criticism called "The Armed Vision," which begins with a chapter on Wilson.
