Commentary
# 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.
