Critical Notes

Your reviews seed this roundup, please send items to NBCCCritics@gmail.com. ************************* More from NBCC Reads: Lizzie Skurnick on Elizabeth Strout. Colette Bancroft on A. Scott Berg's Max Perkins. Jason Erik

Your reviews seed this roundup, please send items to NBCCCritics@gmail.com. *********************************** NBCC Reads: Novelist Richard Powers, a four-time NBCC fiction finalist, launches the new NBCC Reads series. What's your favorite NBCC finalist

Your reviews seed this roundup, please send items to NBCCCritics@gmail.com. *********************************** Jon Wiener interviews Jonathan Lethem for the Nation. Andrea Scrima's essay on Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's new book Seiobo There

Your reviews seed this roundup, please send items to NBCCCritics@gmail.com. *********************************** NBCC board member Carolyn Kellogg examines the L.A. Times reviews of recent Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Hector Tobar on Alice Munro. Hope

Your reviews seed this roundup, please send items to NBCCCritics@gmail.com. *************************   “Julian Barnes 'Levels' With Us On Love, Loss And Ballooning.” Heller McAlpin on the acclaimed author's new memoir. She

Your reviews seed this roundup, please send items to NBCCCritics@gmail.com. *************************   New NBCC member Elizabeth Rosner reviews Tracy Guzeman's The Gravity of Birds. Thanks to a firewall, this review

Julia M. Klein reviews Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial for the Boston Globe. In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Gina Webb reviews John Dufresne's No Regrets, Coyote. Norman Rush's Subtle Bodies,

NBCC board member Jane Ciabattari reviews Valerie Miner's Traveling with Spirits. “The best bad book on Salinger ever written.” Paul Wilner reviews the new Salinger bio. Gerald Bartell interviews mystery

“This low-key memoir is a modest dish.” Heller McAlpin on Kate Christensen's Blue Plate Special. For the Miami Herald, Kit Reed reviews Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam. “Long at Helm, U.T. Collector Leaves

Joe Peschel reviews Rick Bass's novel, All the Land to Hold Us, in the Boston Globe. For Bookforum, John Domini reviews Joseph McElroy's latest novel Cannonball. He also reviews Peter Dimock's novel George