Critical Notes

                  ***  The NBCC awards finalists will read on Wednesday, March 14, at 6 pm at The New School, 66 West 12th

Walton Muyumba reviewed Zadie Smith's latest collection of essays Feel Free for the Los Angeles Times. Katherine A. Powers' monthly audiobooks reviews for the Washington Post included No Justice, in which a black man shot by a white police

***  The NBCC awards finalists will read on Wednesday, March 14, at 6 pm at The New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York City, and the awards ceremony will

Here's a toast to the NBCC Sandrof award winner John McPhee, Balakian winner Charles Finch, and John Leonard award winner Carmen Maria Machado, and all the NBCC awards finalists, selected

Reviews and profiles NBCC VP/Online Jane Ciabattari joins NBCC president Kate Tuttle, NBCC board members Laurie Hertzel and Kerri Arsenault, and former NBCC presidents John Freeman and Tom Beer, in

NBCC board member Anjali Enjeti reviews Jamie Quatro's Fire Sermon for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. NBCC VP/Online Jane Ciabattari's Books to Read in 2018 for BBC Culture, includes new work from

Steph Opitz, who has worked on or with the Texas Book Festival, the Brooklyn Book Festival, the PEN World Voices Festival, Literary Arts’s Wordstock, and others, is launching a new

  NBCC fiction awardee Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah makes Time magazine's list of 30 books to read before you're 30 (along with fiction finalists Teju Cole's Open City, Lauren Groff's

  Former NBCC board president, and current board member Tom Beer wrote about new books this week for Newsday.  Star Tribune senior editor for books and NBCC board member Laurie