Critical Mass

Eric Banks visits Jonestown, 30 years after the murder-massacres: “We expect our killing fields to be marked a certain way, and with at least a certain rhetoric of rectitude. At

Google now offers a magazine search function. Which reminded us to check out the year-end global top 10 list of the billions of Google searches over the past year, which

NBCC member Cliff Garstang ranks the winners and Special Mentions in this years’ Pushcart Prize anthology, just out. Pushcart founder Bill Henderson, winner of an NBCC Sandrof award for lifetime

Jean-Marie Gustave LeClezio, who delivered this lecture upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this week, focused in part on the importance of the book:  “There is a great

Kerry Wood, a longtime friend of John Leonard’s, sent us this reminiscence: It has all been said—everywhere but in the New York Times Book Review section where I expected to

Scott McLemee, reviewing “The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory” (Oxford University Press) by Torkel Klingberg, ponders information overload:”…it sometimes feels like one’s brain is being

From the Academy of American Poets, poems about gratitude and Thanksgiving. Labels: Poetry

Announced tonight, winners of the National Book Awards: Young People’s Literature: Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic). Poetry: Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Collected

Andrew Leonard: “All this past weekend, in the shower, on airplanes, watching college football with my sister (my father was a fan), making small talk with New Yorkers come to