April 11, 2007
By Gary Giddins
We asked Gary Giddins, NBCC award winner for criticism,whose latest book is “Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books,” what was on his “to read” list: As I
April 4, 2007
By Rebecca Skloot
The best practice, it has always seemed to me, would be simply to ignore the great majority of books and to give very long reviews — 1,000 words is a
April 3, 2007
By Maureen McLane
Five books I'm looking forward to reading this spring: Susan Sontag, “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches” (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, March): This may turn out to be a
March 30, 2007
By John Freeman
LIKE A FEW OTHERS ON THIS BOARD, I'm working my way through the Lee biography of Wharton, which is terrific (so far), and have set aside a weekend for Delillo,
March 28, 2007
By Lizzie Skurnick
It goes without saying that this is impossible to choose, but we took the top 10 from the stack of 50, then winnowed it down to 5: 1. Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped
March 28, 2007
By Edward Pettit
From NBCC member Edward Pettit: The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving by Andrew Burstein, Basic (March) John Donne: the Reformed Soul by John Stubbs, Norton (April) White Walls and
March 23, 2007
By NBCC
Five titles I'm looking forward to in 2007? Rumsfeld, by Andrew Cockburn, Scribner's (June)The Ministry of Special Cases, by Nathan Englander, Knopf (May)A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, Riverhead
March 22, 2007
By NBCC
—Black Diamond Detective Agency by Eddie Campbell.Campbell's “The Fate of the Artist” was one of my favorite books last year, and no one else read it. I'm hoping his highly anticipated
March 20, 2007
By Jane Ciabattari
In addition to the aforementioned Don DeLillo 9/11 novel,here are my most anticipated five (in alphabetical order): 1) Away, the new novel from award-winning short story author, NBCC fiction finalist
March 17, 2007
By Marcela Valdes
1) The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (FSG): Roberto Bolaño may well be the most influential novelist to come out of Latin America in the past 30 years. This novel, which wasoriginally