Margaret Atwood's new novel The Testaments continues to sweep across the literary landscape. Megan Labrise interviewed Atwood about The Testaments for Kirkus Reviews. Former board member Colette Bancroft considers The Testaments in her column

Welcome to the latest news from the Nationa Book Critics Circle! We've got reviews and more for your holiday weekend. Elaine Szewczyk talked to humorist John Hodgman for Publishers Weekly

NBCC board president Laurie Hertzel, senior editor for books at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, wrote her weekly column about writers' bookshelves and reviewed the essay collection, Apple, Tree, edited by Lise Funderburg. Board member Mark Athitakis reviewed

Elaine Szewczyk interviewed Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers about his forthcoming memoir, Acid for the Children, for Publisher's Weekly. Martha Anne Toll reviewed The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

Book critic Michael Lindgren, who has been writing for the Washington Post and other venues for many years, is setting criticism aside to for an equally noble pursuit: plunging deeper into the book business. He'll

At the Washington Post, Ron Charles reviews Colson Whitehead's new novel The Nickel Boys, writing that “it shreds our easy confidence in the triumph of goodness and leaves in its place a

Poet Marie Ponsot, whose 1998 collection The Bird Catcher won the NBCC award in poetry, died Friday July 5 at age 98. NBCC Board member Tess Taylor penned her obituary in the NY Times.

The latest interviews, reviews and more from our members. Kristen Evans talked to Elizabeth Gilbert about her new novel City of Girls for Buzzfeed. Terese Svoboda reviewed Last Day by Domenica

From the NBCC's Emerging Critics: Just in time for June’s Pride celebrations, Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers reviewed Bruce Cinnamon’s The Melting Queen and Michael Carroll’s short story collection, Stella Maris and Other Key West Stories,

Why do we delight in fictions created from the French Revolution? Tobias Carroll explores the frisson of fervor or schadenfreude (is there a French word for that?), paying particular attention to