NBCC Reads

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the El Paso Times, Rigoberto González reviews Diana López’s Confetti Girl. Corpus Christi

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the Quarterly Conversation, Steven G. Kellman reviews J. Robert Lennon’s Castle. In his

NBCC member Donna Seaman, the first book critic to guest edit the TriQuarterly, sends us this excerpt from “Strong Medicine,” her introductory essay to TriQuarterly #133. (The cover is by

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the Los Angeles Times, NBCC member Marcela Valdes reviews Gerald Martin’s Gabriel Garcia

In this series, the National Book Critics Circle will post a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from former Balakian

Beginning today, Critical Mass will regularly feature an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from Open Letters: A Monthly Arts and Letters Review, NBCC member

Beginning today, Critical Mass will regularly feature an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from Open Letters: A Monthly Arts and Letters Review, NBCC member

NBCC member Michael Lukas, a finalist in the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Young Reviewers Contest last year (and a VQR blogger), sent word on what he’s looking forward to reading this

Although we posted our omnibus summary of responses last week, we will continue to highlight individual choices through the end of this month. To kick off the Long Tail series,