Critical Notes

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

​​photo by Chad Batka/NYT NBCC Balakian winning critic Parul Sehgal is interviewed by Durga Chew-Bose in SSENSE.  NBCC VP and Online Chair Jane Ciabattari's BBC Culture column–a global books column

Reminder: NBCC Balakian award submissions from members are due December 17. The award for excellence in book criticism includes a $1,000 cash prize funded by former NBCC board member Gregg

Louise Erdrich reads from “Future Home of the Living God” in Minneapolis on pub day. Reviews and profiles For the Seattle Times, board member Mary Ann Gwinn interviewed David Buerge about

NBCC members are in the thick of the #NBCCLeonard awards process, nominating books and writing blog posts about their favorites. The awards, for a first book in any genre published