Critical Notes

Dear NBCC Friends, Spooky season might be drawing to a close, but publishers haven’t stopped adding to an ever-growing glut of gothic novels and literary horror. So, if that’s your

Dear NBCC Friends, As mentioned last week, submissions for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing are now open. The prize recognizes outstanding work by an NBCC member and awards them

Dear NBCC Friends, We’ll be opening up submissions for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing on October 30. The prize recognizes outstanding work by an NBCC member and

Dear NBCC Members, We hope you’re all curling up with a good book as the weather cools down. And we’d like to wish a hearty congratulations to Vivian Gornick, three-time

Dear NBCC Friends, Greetings! Hope everyone’s weathering this most busy time for the book world. Meanwhile, the reviews output is keeping apace. Here’s a recap on what our members have

Dear NBCC Members, This week, the literary world awaits the announcement of the Nobel Prize winner for 2022. Guiding us as usual through the crowded and geographically scattered field of deserving

Dear NBCC Friends, We at the NBCC are remembering the work of Hilary Mantel, who died last week at 70, and whose Wolf Hall won the 2009 NBCC fiction award. Board member Linda Wolfe, in

Dear NBCC Friends, To help kick off the Brooklyn Book Festival, the NBCC will hold a virtual Bookend event on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 7pm-8pm ET with John Leonard Prize winners and nominees Torrey

Dear NBCC Friends, We’ve lost some great ones in the blink of a week. At the NBCC, we’re remembering the work of trailblazing journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, whose Fear of Falling: The

Greetings, NBCC Friends, We hope you had a fabulous long weekend. Here’s to the start of fall, a great season for books—and, of course, book reviews!! Read on for what