Critical Notes

Last week, the board of the National Book Critics Circle outlined our plan to make our organization a better and more inclusive place for all of our members. We’ll regularly

“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring

“Take no one’s word for anything, including mine, but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you

All of us on the NBCC board hope you had a great holiday, even if it wasn’t quite the same as years before. (Sure, the cookout might have had much

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the journalism industry hard, with many media outlets laying off staffers and cutting freelance assignments. But we strongly believe that conversations about literature are desperately

We hope you’re having a great Thursday! Or whatever day it is. We’ve been in quarantine so long, we honestly don’t know anymore. Luckily, our members know what books you

We hope your May is going well so far! To kick off the month, we’ve got several reviews from our members, including our critics’ takes on the latest books by

Our members have had yet another busy week, publishing dozens of reviews and interviews, appearing at virtual book fairs, and, in one case, promising to recreate the Breakfast Club dance

Dear members, by now you might have heard that book lovers all over the world banded together to save the legendary City Lights Books in San Francisco. While that’s indisputably