By the mid-60's he was working regularly as a freelance critic for Art News, then under the editorship of Thomas B. Hess.

And Julius, a freelance critic, is taking temp jobs as a secretary to make ends meet, while bouncing from lover to lover.

The Shanghainese I met - mostly artists, writers, a freelance critic - all agreed that less rapid progress might save the city's soul.

Readers on Sunday come to the Book Review to read the work of freelance critics (and, occasionally, Times writers) paired up with particular books for particular reasons.

Stuart Kelly is the literary editor of Scotland on Sunday and a freelance critic and writer.

"The Hesse show is amazing," said Glen Helfand, a freelance critic.

He is currently Editor-at-Large of Artforum and a freelance critic and curator.

Miss Frenaye was also a freelance critic, and she appreciated - though sometimes grudgingly - esprit and individualism in people as well as in literature.

Before joining the staff of The New York Times, he was a freelance critic and music writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1979 to 1980.

He began his career as a freelance critic and the publisher of Fotokritik, an iconoclastic and original contribution to West German photography.