Critical Notes

Donald Hall, whose collection “The One Day” won the NBCC Poetry award in 1988, and was a past Poet Laurate, died at his home in New Hampshire. His passing was widely

Former NBCC board member Mark Athitakis interviewed Lydia Millet for the Barnes & Noble Review and Rebecca Makkai for Kirkus Reviews. Michelle Bailat-Jones reviewed Katja Petrowskaja’s Maybe Esther (tr. Shelley

It's high summer, a time to slow down; a time for beach reading and sailing and fishing and napping and vacation, but book critics never rest. We have a ton

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NBCC award fiction award winner (for Americanah) and fiction finalist (for Half of a Yellow Sun) is profiled in The New Yorker. Colette Bancroft's ​review of

NBCC board member and Best Translated Book Award judge Lori Feathers writes about why My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye should win this year's BTBA fiction prize. Julia M. Klein shows how

NBCC Vice President/Online Jane Ciabattari’s flash fiction, #BrooklynAftertheFall, was published in the flash anthology commissioned for Independent Bookstore Day on April 28, and in Lit Hub. Her new weekly Lit Hub column continues, with an

Rayyan Al-Shawa reviewed Audrey Schulman's Theory of Bastards in The Globe and Mail. Here’s board member Kerri Arsenault on an early lesson in labor and loyalty: “How My Father’s Strike

NBCC board member Laurie Hertzel wrote her weekly Star Tribune column on the strange and disturbing trend of shelving books spine-in. Board member Lori Feathers highlights three recent translations in

Jenny Bhatt reviewed ‘Sharp’ by Balakian winner Michelle Dean, about ten women writers who shaped the NYC intellectual scene in the 20th century. In her piece, Bhatt looks at similar