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Critical Quarterly is a literary reviews journal recognized globally for its unique combination of literary criticism, cultural studies, poetry, and fiction. It examines a variety of cultural works, allowing for conversation and exploration on everything from cinema to the established literary canon. In order to generate a lively discourse of varied voices, the journal welcomes submissions from new researchers and writers as well as more established contributors.
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- 0.3CiteScore
- 0.2Journal Impact Factor
- 34%Acceptance rate
- 47 days Submission to first decision
Articles
Thermidor: The Revolution Betrayed in Trotsky, Orwell and Serge
-  8 June 2025
To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis
-  29 May 2025
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Multiculture in times of war: an inaugural lecture given at the London School of Economics
-  27-45
-  6 December 2006

Education, markets, and an audit culture
-  11-29
-  10 June 2005
Dalit reconfiguration of caste: representation, identity and politics
-  46-61
-  21 October 2014

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- Volume 66, Issue 4
‘It might as well be Stephen’ Essays in appreciation of Sondheim
1-123December 2024Kasia Boddy, Clare Pettitt