May 1, 2023
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you’re having a good spring! A few quick notes: Applications for the 2023-2024 Emerging Critics Fellowship are due Friday, May 5, by 11:59 PM Pacific.
April 25, 2023
By Michael Schaub
We hope you’re having a great spring! Our members have been busy with reviews of books by authors including Victor LaValle, Claire Dederer, David Grann, Brendan Slocumb, and more. We’d
April 11, 2022
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you’re having a great spring! Our members have been keeping busy with reviews of books by authors including Douglas Stuart, Maud Newton, Lisa Hsiao Chen,
April 4, 2022
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we’d love for you to join us this Thursday, April 7, at 8 pm Eastern, for a conversation featuring the NBCC’s Emerging Critics past and present. This
March 28, 2022
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you’re enjoying the spring! Our members have been keeping busy with reviews of books by Maud Newton, Alex Segura, Rodney Gómez, Olga Ravn, Ashley Ward,
March 21, 2022
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you all were able to watch our awards ceremony last Thursday, and we’d like to congratulate all of the winners: Jeremy Atherton Lin, Rebecca Donner,
March 17, 2022
By Michael Schaub
Congratulations to the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards for publishing year 2021! Autobiography: Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (Little, Brown) Biography: Rebecca Donner, All
March 16, 2022
By Michael Schaub
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Susan Bernofsky (Yale) “We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary,” Robert Walser once wrote. “We already see
March 16, 2022
By Michael Schaub
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain (Beacon) The title of Keisha N. Blain’s magnificent biography of Fannie Lou Hamer comes from
March 14, 2022
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, our annual NBCC Awards ceremony is almost here! We hope you’ll all join us this Thursday, March 17 for our biggest evening of the year. Things kick