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May 23, 2017
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May 23, 2017
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Critical Notes will return next week…..
May 15, 2017
By Anjali Enjeti
May Day! May Day! These releases will save you from bad reality television and boredom. NBCC board member and Balakian winner Katherine A. Powers preferred the audiobook to the memoir
May 9, 2017
By Elizabeth Taylor
The Kentucky Derby has been run, the Preakness Stakes is coming up and the stampede of summer books begins. For the Portland Press Herald, Michael Berry reviewed Richard Russo's Trajectory and also
May 1, 2017
By Laurie Hertzel
Balakian award winner Michelle Dean writes in the Guardian on Granta's best young American authors, including NBCC John Leonard award winners Yaa Gyasi and Anthony Marra, NBCC fiction finalists
April 24, 2017
By Laurie Hertzel
A glorious spring day. The magnolias are blooming (they smell like bubblegum!), the forsythia is glowing golden and my tulips have not yet been eaten by rabbits. Here are the
April 17, 2017
By Laurie Hertzel
NBCC President Kate Tuttle interviews Jane Mayer, author of “Dark Money,” for the Los Angeles Times. NBCC VP/Online Jane Ciabattari's weekly Lit Hub column includes new books by Fiona Maazel,
April 10, 2017
By Laurie Hertzel
Do the National Book Critics Circle awards predict the Pulitzers? The NBCC gave fiction awards to Junot Diaz, Jennifer Egan, Marilynne Robinson, Edward P. Jones and Jane Smiley, to
March 29, 2017
By Jane Ciabattari
Here is the news rundown on the National Book Critics Circle awards: Critical Mass. Video of awards ceremony. Associated Press. New York Times. Washington Post. Minneapolis Star Tribune. Brooklyn Magazine.
March 6, 2017
By Laurie Hertzel
Board member and vice president/online Jane Ciabattari writes about 10 books to read in March for her global books column for BBC.com. Board member Laurie Hertzel wrote about two Russian memoirs, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's
February 27, 2017
By Bethanne Patrick
All hail George Saunders, whose Lincoln in the Bardo is this week's most-reviewed title. Viet Nguyen's The Refugees, David Grossman's A Horse Walks into a Bar, and Lauren Elkins' Flâneuse each