Critical Mass

No rest for the weary critic. As I move swiftly into the 2008 publications, it’s both an exciting and a daunting task to confront the growing stacks of books in

Each week, the NBCC will post a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from two-time NBCC winner Daniel Mendelsohn. Here

Each week, the National Book Critics Circle will post a list of five books a crime novelist believes are worth owning and rereading. We recently heard from Edgar and Los

Jim Shepard has won the Story Prize for “Like You’d Understand, Anyway.” Lewis Jones takes a look at a readable new biography of Marcus Garvey. Neil Astley wonders if poetry

Each week, the National Book Critics Circle will post a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from Ina Hartwig of

This week, the In Retrospect series is looking back at Richard Price’s 1992 fiction finalist, Clockers. Larry Mullane, a model for the character of Rocco Klein in Clockers, is a

This week, the In Retrospect series is looking back at Richard Price’s 1992 finalist, Clockers. As Mark Athitakis points out, Price actually wrote three novels set in the fictional city

Each week, the National Book Critics Circle will post a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from former Balakian winner