Critical Notes

Who’s to blame when factual inaccuracies make their way into a book? In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, NBCC member Bob Hoover argues it’s the author, not the publisher, who is most

Former NBCC finalist James Wood looks at fugitive lives and their aftermath in two new novels by Hari Kunzru and Peter Carey (pictured left). Also at the New Yorker, former

This is the best piece you will ever read about Barack Obama. NBCC board member Mary Ann Gwinn finds a familial vein running through Peter Carey’s work. Peter Conrad explains

Former NBCC finalist Steven Pinker—a panelist at the Cambridge Good Reads event—talks to a sharp student from the Crimson, answering questions about the methodology of voting on books. Ex NBCC

Over at the New York Times’ reading room, Jonathan Galassi and others are having an intriguing discussion of one of my favorite novels, Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer. Former NBCC finalist

The reviews keep coming for J.M. Coetzee’s “Diary of a Bad Year.” The latest is former Balakian winner Michael Gorra’s piece, which ran in Truthdig this week. In the same

AS PART of an ongoing series, the NBCC will be talking to book editors and critics around the country. We recently caught up with NBCC board member Marcela Valdes, who