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 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
  • Moralia in 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

Religions

  • Atthakatha, commentaries on the Pāli Canon in Theravāda Buddhism
  • Sub-commentaries (Theravāda), commentaries on the commentaries on the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism
  • Exegesis, a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text (e.g. a Bible commentary)
  • Tafsir, an exegesis, or commentary, of the Quran
  • List of biblical commentaries
  • Jewish commentaries on the Bible

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
  • Criticism, the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone
  • Textual Criticism, the production of scientifically reliable editions of historical texts
  • Commentary! The Musical, the musical commentary accompanying Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
  • Commentary or narration, the words in a documentary film
  • 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)
  • Commentaire, a French quarterly
  • Reaction video, commentaries in video format