Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well! Our members have been busy this past week with reviews of books by authors including Maggie O’Farrell, Greg Sarris, Emily LaBarge, and
June 22, 2026
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Announcements
June 8, 2026
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well! Our members have been busy this past week with reviews of books by authors including Ann Patchett, Isaac Fitzgerald, chaun webster, and
March 26, 2026
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Announces Winners for Publishing Year 2025
By Members Of The National Book Critics Circle Board
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2025 Kevin Young, Arundhati Roy, Karen Hao among award winners; PBS and NPR honored with the Toni Morrison Achievement Award New
January 20, 2026
Awards: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2025
By Members Of The National Book Critics Circle Board
Frances FitzGerald to receive lifetime achievement award New York, NY (Tuesday, January 20)—Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists in six categories – Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction,
January 12, 2026
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, please join us on Thursday, January 15, at 7 p.m. Eastern/4 p.m. Pacific for a special conversation about poetry in translation with Arthur Sze, the 25th Poet
December 18, 2025
Awards: 2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Barrios Book in Translation Prize
By Members Of The National Book Critics Circle Board
Bodies Found in Various Places, by Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher (Cardboard House) (Poetry) Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, by Yoko Tawada,
December 17, 2025
Awards: 2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Nonfiction
By Members Of The National Book Critics Circle Board
America, América: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin (Penguin Press) Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and
December 17, 2025
Awards: 2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Poetry
By Members Of The National Book Critics Circle Board
After You Were, I Am, by Camille Ralphs (McSweeney’s) Chronicle of Drifting, by Yuki Tanaka (Copper Canyon) Death of the First Idea, by Rickey Laurentiis (Knopf) Into the Hush, by
December 16, 2025
Awards: 2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Biography
By Members Of The National Book Critics Circle Board
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, by Sam Tanenhaus (Random House) Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography, by Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Love,
December 16, 2025
Awards: 2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Autobiography
By Members Of The National Book Critics Circle Board
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday) The Broken King, by Michael Thomas (Grove) I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press)