NBCC Reads

Christopher Beha is an editor at Harper’s Magazine. The Whole Five Feet, his memoir of reading the Harvard Classics, was released last week by Grove Press. He’s passed along to

In this series, writers look back at past NBCC award winners. Here, poet Randall Mann revisits My Alexandria, by Mark Doty, recipient of the 1993 NBCC award in poetry. My

Visitors to Critical Mass will recall that in the fall, we canvassed the membership (as well as former winners and nominees) about which books best captured the realities of American

Emily Warn on Anne Winters’s “The Key to the City,” a 1986 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry, is the newest installment in the National Book

The following essay by Emily Warn on Anne Winters’s “The Key to the City,” a 1986 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry, is part of the

Time for another Long Tail post from the most recent NBCC Reads. This time around, we’ve got suggestions from blogger Mark Sarvas (whose first novel, Harry, Revised, was published earlier

Yes, folks, it’s yet another Long Tail entry from the latest round of NBCC Reads. This time, we’ve got a twofer from Brooke Allen, a widely published critic and the

Now that we’ve all emerged from a tryptophan-induced stupor, it’s time to resume the Long Tail entries from the latest round of NBCC Reads. This time around, we’ve got suggestions