Critical Notes

Marion Winik reviews David Rakoff's Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish in Newsday. In the New York Journal of Books, David Cooper reviews Burt Kimmelman's Gradually the World: New and

2013 PEN Literary Awards littered with NBCC connections. “When a loved one dies, people rarely get time to grieve fully, or find words to express its strange reality.” Matthew Jakubowski

Entertainment Weekly calls 2012 NBCC Fiction Award winner Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk one of the 100 greatest books ever. San Francisco Chronicle books editor John McMurtrie interviews

School Library Journal associate book reviews editor Chelsey Philpot reviews three young adult novels the Boston Globe. She also compiles a recommended list of YA summer reading. NBCC board member Elizabeth

For The Rumpus, Michelle Bailat-Jones reviews All My Friends by former Goncourt winner Marie NDiaye (translated by Jordan Stump). “In TransAtlantic, The Flight Is Almost Too Smooth”: Maureen Corrigan on Colum

Jon Wiener interviews Robert Silvers: 50 Years of NYRB. “The people are very angry and exhausted. Perhaps a candidate can make a change in Iran, but I am not sure

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,