Critical Notes

VIDEO: The VIDA Count and Gender Bias in Book Reviewing. VIDEO: NBCC on the Ethics of Book Reviewing. PODCAST: What Is Criticism? NBCC Winner and Finalist at AWP. In the

Last week's NBCC events generated buzz & kudos, beginning with the NBCC's announcement of the new John Leonard award for a first book, reported first by Balakian winner Ron Charles

Outgoing NBCC president Eric Banks starts a new position as director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU in July; outgoing director Lawrence Weschsler was an NBCC

At the Boston Globe, Jan Gardner looks at pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton's memoir. Also at the Globe, Julia M. Klein reviews M.E. Thomas' Confessions of a Sociopath. In the Chicago Tribune,

VIDEO: LBJ's penis and more: 2012 NBCC Biography Award winner Robert Caro gets the Colbert Report treatment. “A Tale of Remorse that Creeps Under Your Skin”: Maureen Corrigan on Gail

Congratulations to all the new 2013 Guggenheim Fellows connected to the NBCC: NBCC fiction winner Kiran Desai, NBCC nonfiction winner Maya Jasanoff, NBCC fiction finalist Adam Johnson, NBCC poetry finalist

2012 NBCC Fiction Award winner Ben Fountain secures another major award, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. In the Biography category, Robert Caro took home the award for his The

2012 NBCC Fiction Award winner Ben Fountain grabs another honor: the Texas Institute of Letters award. “For the reader's sake, I wish Katznelson (or his editor) had been incisive enough

“A tapestry of literary activism and erudition, passion and precision, action with words.” So writes the El Paso Times about Red-Inked Retablos, the latest book from NBCC board member Rigoberto

Meredith Maran's Why We Write in BookPage's “9 noteworthy books for book lovers,” a lighthearted list of “books about books.” Just a month after winning the 2012 NBCC Criticism award for