Michelle Obama, Diane Seuss, and Tara Westover

By Taylor Anhalt

NBCC Deadlines The deadline for signing up for the #NBCCLeonard commitee is Tuesday, November 27 5 pm EST.   The first nine blog posts in the #NBCCLeonard series here. If you

Barack Obama, Lucia Berlin, and books for giving

By Laurie Hertzel

Reminder: It’s time to volunteer for the John Leonard Award committee! Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #NBCCLeonard, and visit our Facebook page to check out the list

#NBCCLeonard Award, Member Reviews, and More

By Mark Athitakis

Reminder: It’s time to volunteer for the John Leonard Award committee! Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #NBCCLeonard, and visit our Facebook page to check out the list

Libraries, surrealism, and Alex Trebek

By Laurie Hertzel

  Reviews, interviews, profiles Rebekah Denn reviewed Susan Orlean's “The Library Book” for The Christian Science Monitor, and she reports that it made her feel better about the world. She

Maggie Nelson, Bernard Hooper, and Kathryn Harrison

By Taylor Anhalt

Reviews & Interviews The latest in NBCC's Craft of Criticism series is Tara Cheesman's Q and A with Ilana Masad. NBCC Emerging Critic Natania Holtzman offers this week's NBCC Reads/Translation

Kate Atkinson, John Kaag, and Barbara Kingsolver

By Taylor Anhalt

Reviews NBCC VP/Online Jane Ciabattari's October BBC Culture column includes novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Cristina Rivera Garza, Claire Fuller, Alyson Hagy, Haruki Murakami and Kirstin Allio, and a new biography

Truths, Proust and other good things

By Laurie Hertzel

Reviews, interviews and profiles by our members This week's Craft of Criticism series interview is with NBCC biography award winner Ruth Franklin. This week's NBCC Reads/Favorite Work in Translation is