Long Tail: Parul Hinzen and Leora Skolkin-Smith

By James Marcus

Continuing with with the Long Tail series, we have suggestions from critic Parul Hinzen and from Leora Skolkin-Smith, whose novel Edges was published in 2005. (You can read the earlier,

NBCC Featured Review: Troy Jollimore on Robert Wright

By Eric Banks

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from Truthdig, Troy Jollimore reviews Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God. The title of

NBCC Featured Review: Regan McMahon on Jonah Raskin

By Eric Banks

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the San Francisco Chronicle, Regan McMahon reviews Jonah Raskin’s Field Days: A Year

NBCC Featured Review: Rebecca Donner on Kate Walbert

By Eric Banks

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from Bookforum.com, Rebecca Donner reviews Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women. Multigenerational novels

Spring 2009: Jim Gibbons and Susan Larson

By James Marcus

To continue the Long Tail series, we have suggestions from Jim Gibbons and from Susan Larson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. (You can read the earlier, omnibus post here. And

NBCC Featured Review: Art Winslow on Leonard Zeskind

By Eric Banks

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the Los Angeles Times, Art Winslow reviews Leonard Zeskind’s Blood and Politics: The