February 11, 2008
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OVER AT the LA TIMES, three board members take on winter books. Art Winslow reviews Susan Jacoby’s new book, The Age of American Unreason, (that’s Jacoby, pictured right) James Marcus
February 11, 2008
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FEBRUARY 5th may have been a good day for John McCain, and a frustrating one for Hillary Clinton and Barck Obama, who remain in a dead heat, but at Books
February 10, 2008
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“One of our universities recently made a survey of the reading habits of the American public; it decided that forty-eight percent of all Americans read, during a year, no book
February 10, 2008
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The following essay comes to us from a relatively new NBCC member, the poet and critic Reginald Shepherd, who herein describes his accidental journey into the blog world. “Blog” is
February 9, 2008
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The following essay by NBCC member Scott Esposito is the last of three posts in the In Retrospect series which look back at Rush’s 1991 ficion finalist, Mating, a novel
February 8, 2008
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By 6 pm this past Wednesday evening, approximately 80 or so highly informed readers had braved a sleet-sodden evening to fill the main floor of The Brattle Theater. They were
February 8, 2008
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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 recent Balakian finalist
February 6, 2008
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ONE OF THE THINGS I have dreaded most about the recent cutbacks in newspapers around America is the fact that many of the people I work with – in some
February 5, 2008
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In addition to the NBCC’s member critics, we threw the net out to all of our former finalists and winners to vote in the NBCC’s Good Reads winter list. Here
February 3, 2008
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I first heard of the wonderfully lecherous 17th century Naval administrator Samuel Pepys and his famous diary from Helene Hanff’s sweet collection of book-related correspondence, “84, Charing Cross Road,” which