NBCC Reads

I had always avoided Edwidge Danticat as a “vegetable writer,” someone you were supposed to read because it was good for you. But this recent memoir, detailing the struggles of

You can find novelist David Leavitt's votes over at NBCC member Mark Sarvas' blog, “The Elegant Variation,” along with those of former NBCC finalist Charles Solomon.

The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly — a harrowing account of life in Burmese prison. All too relevant to the situation in Myanmar and frustratingly little known here — Gish

Peter Cameron's SOME DAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO YOU (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007) Billed as a young adult book, Peter Cameron's SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO

The rules for voting in the Best Recommend List were pretty simple, but important nonetheless. (1) It felt important to limit the recommendations to 2007 and early 2008 titles (with

  Two years ago, on a clear autumn morning, I caught the Cape Air from Boston to Provincetown, soaring a thousand feet above the Atlantic in a cold wind. I

WYATT MASON has been absorbing all the discussion about reviews and reviewing from the sidelines for some time now, and he steps up with some questions about the self-flagellation of

IN HIS 1997 MEMOIR, “Boyhood,”South African-born Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee recalled the desperate passion with which he devoured books as a child. “He knows that if he wants to be a great

AMERICAN ARTS AND LETTERS have been blessed with few great generalist critics over the years, and fewer still have written novels. The most obvious example — Edmund Wilson — wasn't

The following review kicks off an NBCC partnership with Baristanet, a place blog run in New Jersey by former New York Times columnist Debbie Galant, the idea being to bring reviews