Announcements

Today's post focuses on “The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million,” by Daniel Mendelsohn (HarperCollins), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle prize for autobiography.  

Today's posts will focus on Alison Bechdel's FUN HOME, a finalist for the 2006 NBCC award in autobiography.   ARE MEMORIES predominantly visual or verbal? Alison Bechdel draws on all

Today's posts will focus on “My Brother is Getting Arrested Again” by Daisy Fried (University of Pittsburgh Press), which is a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.

“The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade” by Ann Fessler (The Penguin Press) is a finalist

Julie Phillip's “James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon” is a finalist for the 2006 NBCC Award in Biography. SHE IS REMEMBERED, when she is remembered at all,

Today's posts will address former NBCC winner Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, “The Road,” a finalist for the 2006 NBCC prize for fiction.  How cool is Cormac McCarthy (not to be confused with

Here's a short passage from “The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq,” a finalist for the 2006 NBCC award in nonfiction:   My favorite military spokesman was Brigadier General Mark Kimmit, who

Today's posts will focus on Lia Purpura's “On Looking,” a finalist for the 2006 NBCC Award in criticism.  ON LOOKING IS A HARD BOOK TO CATEGORIZE. Lia Purpura's sense of