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In this 2018–2019 Alan Cheuse Emerging Critics Q and A series, curated by Jonathan Leal, Emerging Critics offer short takes on big questions: What makes good criticism? How might one

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In this 2018–2019 Alan Cheuse Emerging Critics Q and A series, curated by Jonathan Leal, Emerging Critics offer short takes on big questions: What makes good criticism? How might one

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By Elizabeth Taylor

Meet This Year's Class of NBCC's Alan Cheuse Emerging Critics   Jennie Hann recently completed her Ph.D. in English at Johns Hopkins University, where she served as Associate Editor of

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By Heather Scott Partington

  Tom Beer, book editor of Newsday and former NBCC President (2015-2017), met with NBCC’s Emerging Critics in our first advisory Skype session. Emerging Critics Committee Chair Elizabeth Taylor also

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Meet the Inaugural Class of NBCC's Emerging Critics Taylor Brorby is an award-winning essayist, and a poet. Taylor is a fellow at the Black Earth Institute whose work has been

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We asked the first class of NBCC Emerging Critics to tell us what they've been reading this summer. Here's the fourth response: For me, the summertime has always been an

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By Ismail Muhammad

We asked the first class of NBCC Emerging Critics to tell us what they've been reading this summer. Here's the third response: The end of summer is always a little