title: Commentary
text: # 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
  * 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
  
  ## 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.
  