NBCC Reads

NBCC member Tess Taylor responds to the third question in the “Next Decade in Book Culture” series.   At the risk of playing the luddite, I’ll say that I keep

Critical Mass regularly highlights reviews by NBCC members. Here, in a review originally published in the Chicago Tribune, Donna Seaman discusses Edward O. wilson's foray into fiction, Anthill (Norton). Imagine

First up in our third set of guest posts in the series “The Next Decade in Book Culture” is Janice Harayda, novelist, reviewer, former NBCC board member, One-Minute Book Review

Critical Mass regularly highlights reviews by NBCC members. Here, in a review originally published in Words Without Borders, Karen Rigby discusses Catalan poet Ernest Farrés's Edward Hopper: Poems, A Bilingual

Critical Mass reguarly highlights exemplary reviews by NBCC members. This week, in a review published by The Millions, Nicole Rudick discusses Rebecca Jo Plant's Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in

A Theory of Everything — Norman Rush's “Mating”   The following essay by NBCC member Scott Esposito on Norman Rush's 1991 fiction finalist Mating, is part of the Critical Mass

Visitors to Critical Mass will recall that, last spring, we canvassed the membership (as well as former winners and finalists) about which works in translation had the biggest impact on

The following essay by NBCC board member Stephen Burt on A.R. Ammons, whose A Coast of Trees won the 1981 NBCC award in poetry, is part of the NBCC's “In