Guest Post by Donna Rifkind: The NBCC at 35

By Jane Ciabattari

NBCC member Donna Rifkind reflects on the 35th anniversary: Happy 35th anniversary, NBCC! It’s amazing to think of the changes in book culture since your inception, and just as breathtaking

Guest Post by Leigh Rastivo: NBCC at 35

By Jane Ciabattari

NBCC member Leigh Rastivo offers these thoughts on the future of the NBCC: A few months ago, I was compelled for the umpteenth time to play that contrived Hemingway six-word

NBCC Featured Review: John Domini on Richard Powers

By Eric Banks

Each week Critical Mass features an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Below, in a review that originally appeared in Bookforum, John Domini considers Richard Powers’s new novel Generosity: An

Guest Post by Eric Miles Williamson: NBCC at 35

By Eric Banks

Here’s board member Eric Miles Williamson, whose new novel Welcome to Oakland appeared in July, speaking at the NBCC 35th anniversary celebration held at WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space

Guest Post by J. Peder Zane: NBCC at 35

By Jane Ciabattari

J. Peder Zane served on the NBCC Board from 2005-07. He lives in Raleigh, N.C., where he is co-authoring a book with Professor Adrian Bejan titled “Life is Flow: The

Guest Post by Lev Grossman: NBCC at 35

By Jane Ciabattari

Lev Grossman remembers his time on the NBCC board, from 2004 to 2008 I was elected to the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle in 2004. This

Guest Post by Rebecca Miller: NBCC at 35

By Jane Ciabattari

Former NBCC president Rebecca Miller describes a critical transition time: Closing the deal on the 501 (c) 3 status, entering the digital era, and freeing Autobiography. Here are remarks from

Translation Panel, San Francisco, October 13

By Eric Banks

NBCC READS: Translation Panel National Book Critics Circle, Litquake, and City Lights presentCollapsing Borders: Reading Global Culture Through Literary TranslationCity Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway (North Beach), San