Michelle Newby Lancaster reviewed Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits for Lone Star Literary Life. Erika Dreifus hosted the Dec. 15 Jewish Book Carnival, a project of the Association of Jewish

Welcome to the latest in news and reviews from the National Book Critics Circle. Heller McAlpin reviewed biographer Deirdre Bair’s Parisian Lives for the Wall Street Journal. The Yellow House by Sarah

Tegan and Sara want you to run for the National Book Critics Circle board or submit to be considered for our excellence in reviewing prize. Now’s the time. Join the

The latest reviews, interviews and more from our members this week. Clea Simon reviewed Andre  Aciman’s Find Me , the follow-up to Call Me by Your Name, for the Boston

NBCC board member Carolyn Kellogg wrote about the Nobel Prizes in Literature, awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke, at the Chicago Tribune. Kellogg also talked to Jeanette Winterson about

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Claude Peck reviewed Patti Smith’s Year of the Monkey for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Priscilla Gilman reviewed Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House for the Boston Globe. Heller McAlpin reviewed Patchett’s The Dutch House and Leslie Jamison’s Make It Scream, Make It

Where do you read: On the subway? In a park? At a table? At the Washington Post, NBCC board member Mark Athitakis asks, Where do you read? His answer: The mall.