Critical Notes

Members and friends, we’d love for you to join us this Thursday, April 7, at 8 pm Eastern, for a conversation featuring the NBCC’s Emerging Critics past and present. This

Members and friends, we hope you’re enjoying the spring! Our members have been keeping busy with reviews of books by Maud Newton, Alex Segura, Rodney Gómez, Olga Ravn, Ashley Ward,

Members and friends, we hope you all were able to watch our awards ceremony last Thursday, and we’d like to congratulate all of the winners: Jeremy Atherton Lin, Rebecca Donner,

Members and friends, our annual NBCC Awards ceremony is almost here! We hope you’ll all join us this Thursday, March 17 for our biggest evening of the year. Things kick

Members and friends, we hope you’re all doing well! Our members have been keeping busy lately, reviewing books by authors like NoViolet Bulawayo, Karen Joy Fowler, Lee Cole, Margo Jefferson,

Members and friends, we’ll be announcing the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards at a virtual ceremony on Thursday, March 17! Join us for a finalists reading at

In Memoriam All of us at the NBCC are heartbroken at the loss of Valerie Boyd, who died on Feb. 12 in Atlanta at 58. Valerie served on the NBCC

Members and friends, we hope you’re having a great winter! Our members have been keeping busy with reviews of books by authors like Emily Maloney, Julia May Jonas, Stacey Abrams,

Members and friends, we’re proud to announce the launch of this year’s 30 Books in 30 Days feature today! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting appreciations from our

Members and friends, last Thursday, we announced the finalists for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards! We’re proud of the books that we selected for our shortlists, and we