Critical Notes

Members and friends, we’re looking forward to our annual National Book Critics Awards later this month! While the tickets to our finalists reading and post-ceremony reception have all sold out,

Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well, and looking forward to this year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards on March 21 in New York! There are a very limited

Members and friends, our board members have been hard at work reading all of the finalist books for this year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards, and we’re all looking forward

Members and friends, we hope you’ve been doing well, and have had a great February so far! Our members have been keeping busy with reviews of books by authors including

Kansas City, here we come! If you’re going to be at AWP 2024 this year, we’d love to see you—please stop by our table at Booth 1624, where you can

Members and friends, we hope you’ve been staying warm this winter, with plenty of books to keep you company! Our critics have been keeping busy with reviews of books by

Members and friends, last week, we revealed the finalists for the annual National Book Critics Circle Awards, and we’re so excited to host our ceremony this March in New York.

Members and friends, we hope you’re having a good winter so far! We have some exciting news to announce soon, so be on the lookout for that. In the meantime,

Among the books covered in the past week are the much-touted debut from Temim Fruchter about queerness and Jewish family history, the explosive and widely reviewed satire by Lexi Frieman of