Members and friends, please join us for a special conversation about criticism for books in translation with judges of the Barrios Prize on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, led by Barrios Prize Chair Mandana Chaffa, and including NBCC President Adam Dalva, Hannah Jochmans, Laura Marris and Liz Wood! You can register here.
Member Reviews/Essays
Heather Treseler’s essay, “Depth of Feeling,” about bookend sibling relationships—between the oldest and youngest in a multi-sibling family—and her connection to her youngest brother, before and after a medical crisis, appeared in Notre Dame Magazine.
Kitty Kelley reviewed Douglas Stuart’s John of Johnfor The Georgetowner.
NBCC lifetime member Heller McAlpin wrote about Barbara Trapido’s Brother of the More Famous Jack on the occasion of its latest edition for NPR, and reviewed Yiyun Li’s Music Against the Night for The Christian Science Monitor.
Sebastian Stockman wrote an appreciation (not a review!) of The Hardest, Longest Race by his friend Eric Moskowitz in A Saturday Letter.
NBCC Fundraising & Grants Co-Chair Tobias Carroll reviewed Martha Feldman’s Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome for The Art Newspaper; wrote about a new Cadwell Turnbull collection for Reactor; and discussed Susannah Felts’ The Come Apart for Zona Motel.
Brian Tanguay reviewed The Leveret by Anna Goldreich for the California Review of Books.
Jeanne Bonner, who often reviews Italian books in translation, published a feature story with CNN Travel about visiting Italy with her son. The piece covers Jeanne’s efforts to introduce her teen to Italy, where she lived as an ex-pat, and includes misadventures such as a comical Italian lesson with a jokester friend. The story is for CNN subscribers and can be accessed here.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Cali Adeline’s People Watching in the Desert and Heather Hansman’s Fierce Country for BookTrib.
Cory Oldweiler reviewed Paradise Burns, written by Pol Guasch and translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem, for Words Without Borders.
Julia M. Klein reviewed Lawrence Wright’s Redemption for the Los Angeles Times and Evan Gershkovich’s This Cursed Beautiful Land for The Wall Street Journal.
Priscilla Gilman reviewed Abandoning a Cat by Haruki Murakami for The Boston Globe.
Member Interviews
Former NBCC board member Anita Felicelli wrote a profile of Mark Arax (The Dreamt Land, In My Father’s Name) for Alta.
Ryan Teitman interviewed Emily Skaja and Marcus Wicker about their new poetry collections, Black Lake and Dear Mothership, for The Writer’s Chronicle.
NBCC Fundraising & Grants Co-Chair Tobias Carroll interviewed Kyle Winkler for Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
Sullivan Summer interviewed poet, memoirist, and artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths about her memoir, The Flower Bearers, on the Additions to the Archive podcast.
Elaine Szewczyk interviewed Raphael Simon (a.k.a. bestselling middle-grade author Pseudonymous Bosch) and artist Phillip De Leon for Publishers Weekly about their first YA queer rom-com.
Member News
NBCC lifetime member Xujun Eberlein’s upcoming memoir, The River Drowns the Able Swimmer (Catapult, January 2027), received a glorious review from Publishers Weekly, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Megan Marshall called the book “destined to become a classic of the memoir genre.”
Laura Wetherington’s visual sonnet chapbook, The book is a feminine form, or she disappears into the fold, is now available for free from Petrichor Editions.
Jenny Shank will be moderating the panel The Real West: Transcending Genre and Tradition with Claire Boyles, William Haywood Henderson, BK Loren, and Nina McConigley on Nov. 7 at 12 noon Mountain. Zoom tickets are available here. Then she will talk to Claire Vaye Watkins and Deborah Jackson Taffa at 4:30 p.m. Mountain for Rethinking the Frontier: A Reading And Conversation (with Zoom tickets available here).
Gayle Feldman’s Nothing Random was selected by Alexandra Jacobs as one of her favorite books of the year on the New York Times Book Review podcast.
“Leakey’s Bookshop” by sethoscope is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.