Commentary

Commentary or commentaries may refer to:

Publications

• Commentary (magazine), a U.S. public affairs journal, founded in 1945 and formerly published by the American Jewish Committee
• Caesar's Commentaries (disambiguation), a number of works by or attributed to Julius Caesar
• Commentaries of Ishodad of Merv, set of ninth-century Syriac treatises on the Bible
• Commentaries on the Laws of England, a 1769 treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone
• Commentaries on Living, a series of books by Jiddu Krishnamurti originally published in 1956, 1958 and 1960
• Commentary on Job, a sixth-century treatise by Saint Gregory
• Commentary of Zuo, one of the earliest Chinese works of narrative history, covering the period from 722 to 468 BCE
• Commentaries, a work attributed to Taautus

Other uses

• Published opinion piece material, in any of several forms:
  • An editorial, written by the editorial staff or board of a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical
  • Column (periodical), a regular feature of such a publication in which usually the same single writer offers advice, observation, or other commentary
  • An op-ed, an opinion piece by an author unaffiliated with the publication
  • Letters to the editor, written by readers of such a publication
  • Posts made in the comments section of an online publication, serving a similar function to paper periodicals' letters to the editor
• Commentary (philology), a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication (and usually translation) of a text
• Audio commentary track for DVDs and Blu-Rays – an additional audio track that plays in real-time with the video material, and comments on that video
• Sports commentary or play-by-play, a running description of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast
  • Color commentary, supplementing play-by-play commentary, often filling in any time when play is not in progress
• Atthakatha, commentaries on the Pāli Canon in Theravāda Buddhism
• Criticism, the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone
• Commentary! The Musical, the musical commentary accompanying Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
• Commentary or narration, the words in a documentary film
• Exegesis, a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text (e.g. a Bible commentary)
• Literary criticism, the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature
  • Close reading in literary criticism, the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text
• Political criticism or political commentary, criticism that is specific of or relevant to politics
  • Public commentary received by governmental and other bodies, e.g. in response to proposals, reports, etc.

See also

• Commentry, a place in central France
• Comment (disambiguation)
• List of biblical commentaries
• Jewish commentaries on the Bible
• Commentaire, a French quarterly