January 16, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Responding to our question about the speculation that the Washington Post Book World‘s days are numbered, new Washington Post honcho Marcus Brauchli tells us, “We are absolutely committed to book
January 15, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Poet W.D. Snodgrass, 83, who died Tuesday of cancer at his farmhouse in tiny Erieville, N.Y., south of Syracuse, was revising his poetry even in the last week of his
January 13, 2009
By Maureen McLane
NBCC board member Maureen M. McLane remembers poet and editor Mick Imlah, who passed away earlier this week Mick Imlah—poet, critic, and founding editor of Oxford Poetry—has died. This is
January 7, 2009
By Eric Banks
The National Book Critics Circle regularly posts a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from journalist and critic Laura Miller.
January 5, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Emily Wilkinson just finished her Ph.D. in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature at Stanford University. She recently won the Virginia Quarterly’s Young Reviewers Contest (which included a membership in the
December 19, 2008
By Eric Banks
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that the annual best-of lists of books have reached a zenith this year (ironically enough as space given to reviews per se continues
December 19, 2008
By Jane Ciabattari
Scott McLemee on Susan Sontag, ABD. Mark Sarvas looks at “The Northern Clemency” here. “That this resolutely British novel was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize is not nearly
December 18, 2008
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali Ali’s premature death in 2001 was a devastating loss to a number of communities (literary, immigrant, gay). Among many of
December 17, 2008
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Jenny Shank, Books & Writers Editor of NewWest.Net/Books, sends this note on the impending demise of the Rocky Mountain News: “Its owner, Scripps, put it up for sale
December 16, 2008
By Jane Ciabattari
As Critical Mass bloggers adjust to snazzy new website/blog (sans fox), NBCC board member Ellen Heltzel kicks off our periodic “What I’m Looking Forward to Reading” feature today. More to