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After the NBCC awards ceremony, the crowded reception, and a night on the town, I caught a cab back to the Pod Hotel and fired up my laptop. It was

Today's posts will cover Lawrence Weschler's “Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences,” a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.  A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO,

Today's posts will focus on Kiran Desai's “The Inheritance of Loss,” a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.  She is the product of multiculturalism and

Today's posts will focus on W.D. Snodgrass's “Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems,” a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Prize in poetry.    Look around for

Today's posts will focus on Frederick Crews' “Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays,” a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle award in criticism.  The purpose of an education

“Philosophy,” goes a two-part gibe that Daniel C. Dennett drolly attributes to Anonymous, “is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.” Guess Mr.

Today's posts will focus on Dave Eggers' novel, “What is the What,” a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. War, famine and ethnic hatreds have,