Critical Mass

June 5, 2007

Paula Guran on What to Read This Summer

By Paula Guran

The month of June kicks off Reading the World. As part of this project, the NBCC has asked writers from around the globe to recommend a book from beyond these

June 4, 2007

Thinking About New Orleans: Brad Benischek

By Jane Ciabattari

This is the eighth in our occasional series about New Orleans writers. It's hard to judge how many writers have been displaced, dislocated and disoriented by Katrina and aftermath. Brad

June 4, 2007

Stuart Kelly on What to Read Now

By Stuart Kelly

The month of June kicks off Reading the World. As part of this project, the NBCC has asked writers from around the globe to recommend a book from beyond these

June 3, 2007

Maureen McLane’s Early Summer Reading Notes

By Maureen McLane

Dipping in to Clive James’s Cultural Amnesia: necessary memories from history and the arts (Norton) – a book that begs dipping into, organized as it is alphabetically, from Anna Akhmatova to Josef

June 2, 2007

Hisham Matar on What to Read Now

By Hisham Matar

The month of June, in addition to hosting BEA, also kicks off Reading the World. As part of this project, the NBCC has asked writers around the globe to recommend

May 17, 2007

The Shared Solitude of Reading

By Richard Price

The National Book Critics Circle has launched a Campaign to Save Book Reviewing. This post is part of the campaign's blog series, which features posts by concerned writers, op-eds, Q

April 19, 2007

Video of the 2006 NBCC Events Now Online

By Rebecca Skloot

For those who missed the 2006 NBCC Awards events — or who loved being there so much they want to see them again — we now have videos online of

April 11, 2007

NBCC France Correspondent: Maureen McLane

By Maureen McLane

This NBCC correspondent is currently in Paris, an interesting (and lovely!) situation for thinking about all things “national,””bookish,” and “critical.” Last week our blog referred to the controversy going on here about “Francophonie” and