Critical Notes

Greetings, NBCC Members and Friends, We hope you’re busy enjoying the last weeks of summer and, of course, enjoying a few good reads as well. Here’s what our members have

Greetings, NBCC Friends, TONS of reviews, interviews, and pieces of good news from our members to report this week. As always, thanks for sharing and reading!! In the Spotlight Diary

Greetings, NBCC Friends, In the aftermath of the horrific attack against novelist Salman Rushdie, the National Book Critics Circle remains committed to advocating for the right to freedom of expression for

Greetings, NBCC friends, Yesterday, the NBCC released a statement condemning the repression and killing of Burmese writers, and announcing our commitment to standing with PEN Myanmar, the Myanmar Poets’ Union

Welcome to another week of unrelenting heat, humidity, and maddening literary discourse. Fortunately, we’ve got lots of very smart book reviews to catch up on. (Also recommended: Unplug! Log out!

This week brings reviews of big summer novels by Emma Donoghue and Teddy Wayne, and more. And in case you missed last week’s news, NBCC poetry award winner Ada Limón (The Carrying, 2018)

Member Reviews/Essays NBCC board member Mandana Chaffa reviewed The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras for the Ploughshares blog. Former NBCC board member Mark Athitakis reviewed Teddy

Member Reviews/Essays NBCC board member Anita Felicelli reviewed Meron Hadero’s A Down Home Meal for These Troubled Times for Alta and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona for The Washington Post. Kitty Kelley

Greetings NBCC Friends, Hope you’re enjoying the summer. Here’s the latest roundup of reviews, interviews, and news from our prolific freelancers. Please note that next week’s newsletter will come out

We’ve got big news to report this week. Drumroll, please . . . The NBCC is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2022-2023 Emerging Critics Fellowship: Layla Benitez-James Kathy