Announcements

  Good evening, and thank you for that generous introduction. I’d like to thank the National Book Critics Circle for seeing fit to hand its reviewing award this year to

I would like to sincerely thank the board and the members of the National Book Critics Circle for inviting me to introduce this year’s recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime

The John Leonard award, honoring a founding member who reveled in discovering new voices (he was the first to champion the work of Toni Morrison, Mary Gordon, Maxine Hong Kingston

From the Periphery to the Center When I learned that this award for my life’s work as a writer, so far, would require a little more writing, I began of

This year's Nona Balakian award for Excellence in Reviewing went to Carlos Lozada for his submission of three reviews from The Washington Post. “She took a year off from her

This year's Nona Balakian award for Excellence in Reviewing went to Carlos Lozada for his submission of three reviews from The Washington Post. “I just binge-read eight books by Donald

This year's Nona Balakian award for Excellence in Reviewing went to Carlos Lozada for his submission of three reviews from The Washington Post. The radical chic of Ta-Nehisi Coates is