- "The Crisis", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- "The Crisis", a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Crisis (1901), a novel by Winston Churchill
- The Crisis (1916), a film adaptation directed by James Colin Campbell
- The Crisis, a work by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer
- The Crisis, the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- The Crisis, a work by Robert James Turnbull
- The American Crisis, a work by Thomas Paine
- "The Present Crisis", a poem by James Russell Lowell