Critical Notes

NBCC board member Tom Beer summarizes this week's new books for Newsday. NBCC board member Mary Ann Gwinn reviewed Richard Laurie's “Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash,” Fred Kaplan's

NBCC vice president/ online Jane Ciabattari's Lit Hub column features It Girl Eve Babitz's first novel, redux; 2000 literary It Guy Matthew Klam's first novel, Nina Rigg's radiant cancer memoir and

  NBCC President Kate Tuttle interviewed Ben Mezrich, the author of “Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures,” and reviewed Margot

NBCC president Kate Tuttle reviews Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “The Fact of a Body” for the Los Angeles Times. Former NBCC board member Eric Liebetrau and current NBCC president Kate Tuttle contributed

Reviews and interviews: This week on Lit Hub, Jane Ciabattari, NBCC VP/Online, focused on the new Arundhati Roy and Catherine Lacey novels, an anthology edited by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon

Reviews and other writings: NBCC VP/Online Jane Ciabattari's May 30 Lit Hub column includes tributes to Denis Johnson and buzz about the new Arundhati Roy novel. NBCC board members Tom

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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

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