The words "bleak," "harsh," and "tough" show up in almost every review of Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Proulx's collection of stories set in her adopted state of Wyoming.

In April 1817, stinging from the harsh reviews of his first collection, Poems, 21-year-old John Keats, with his brothers George and Tom, moved in to the ground floor of this elegant red-brick house.

The Paris daily newspapers had not yet published reviews of Mr. de la Renta's collection, but The International Herald Tribune wrote: "A lot of the clothes were pretty nice."

To the Editor: Brooke Allen's review of Cynthia Ozick's brilliant new collection of essays, "Fame & Folly" (June 9), contains several misperceptions, saliently those regarding the piece called "Alfred Chester's Wig."

Streak of Irreverence Her irreverence is illustrated by the article she wrote a few years ago after being bannned from a Christian Dior fashion show for an unfavorable review of the house's previous collection.

Starred review of Smith's second collection.

Cathy Horyn quoted Ms. Blow in The Times on Jan. 30, 2001, in a review of the designer Hedi Slimane's collection for Dior men.

The designer took the advice, but in Women's Wear Daily's glowing review of his collection that followed, the headline said, "Hats Off!"

A published review of Hubbard's collection can be found in Language Learning & Technology 14, 3 (2010).

This reproach he combined with earlier objections: in his review of Voronca's 1923 collection of Decadent poems, Restrişti ("Tribulations"), he first criticized the poet for introducing neologisms or barbarisms to literary Romanian.