NBCC Reads

NBCC member Chelsey Philpot sends us “A J-School Grad’s Lament” upon the 35th anniversary of the NBCC. She is editorial assistant at the HORN BOOK GUIDE. a PUBLISHERS WEEKLY reviewer

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. This week, in a review originally published at Salon.com, Laura Miller considers Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the Brooklyn Rail, Jackson Taylor reviews Frederick Seidel’s Poems 1959–2009. Frederick Seidel is

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the Kansas City Star, Steve Paul reviews Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast: The

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from VQR, Emily Colette Wilkinson reviews Leanne Shapton’s Important Artifacts and Personal Property from

Stephen Burt (see bio below) recently told us about his summer reading: I’m one of those people who read ten to fifteen books, not “at once,” which would require the

Someday a scholar will write a book about the case. It will be about several generations in a New England family of French-Canadian descent named Kerouac. The book could easily

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from theatlantic.com, Benjamin Schwarz reviews Kevin Starr’s Golden Dreams: California in an Age of

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from The Brooklyn Rail, Paul Devlin reviews Jackson Lears’s Rebirth of a Nation: The