Critical Notes

Member Reviews and Essays Three NBCC members took on Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet this week: Heller McAlpin reviewed the novel for NPR, and board member Colette Bancroft shared her thoughts on

Dear members, we hope you’re all keeping cool and staying safe. If you know of any ways NBCC members can help writers, booksellers, librarians or anyone else affected by the

Dear friends, we hope you’re keeping cool and staying safe this summer! Our members have been busy reviewing books by authors such as Mary L. Trump, David Mitchell, Andrew Martin,

Our members have been busy over the past week, reviewing books by J. Courtney Sullivan, Roddy Doyle, Jay Parini, Jill Watts and more, and interviewing writers like Kevin Kwan and

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