February 22, 2007
By Art Winslow
Today's posts will focus on “Flaubert: A Biography” by Frederick Brown (Little, Brown), which is a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. In mid-nineteenth-century France, law school “was
February 21, 2007
By J. Peder Zane
Today's posts will focus on Bruce Bawer's “While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within,” a finalist for the 2006 NBCC prize in criticism. NO
February 20, 2007
By Elizabeth Taylor
Today's posts will focus on “At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68” by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster), which is a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award
February 19, 2007
By Margo Hammond
Today's posts will focus on “Stuart: A Life Backwards” by Alexander Masters (Delacorte Press), which is a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for memoir. “Stuart: A Life Backwards”
February 16, 2007
By Ellen Heltzel
Today’s post focuses on “The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher,” by Debby Applegate (Doubleday), a finalist for the 2007 NBCC prize for biography. The
February 13, 2007
By NBCC
Donald Antrim’s mother, Louanne, dies in the first sentence of his poignant and mordantly funny memoir, The Afterlife. Only a few pages later, in what seems a stunning non sequitur,
February 12, 2007
By Art Winslow
Today's posts will focus on Richard Ford's “The Lay of the Land,” a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. IT IS TWENTY YEARS NOW
February 10, 2007
By NBCC
Every year the National Book Critics Circle elects eight critics from within its ranks to serve on our board. It was a squeaker election this year, but it was definitive.
February 9, 2007
By Steve Weinberg
“A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler” by Jason Roberts (HarperCollins) is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. Born
February 7, 2007
By Kevin Prufer
Today's posts will focus on Miltos Sachtouris' “Poems (1945-1971), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. “Reading his poetry,” translator Karen Emmerich has noted, “one