Criticism & Features

NBCC members and finalists and winners of our book award were eligible to vote in the winter edition of the NBCC’s Good Reads. Member critic and debut novelist Jonathan Segura

Last week a small gathering convened at a Sacramento Barnes & Noble to discuss what constitutes a good read, why people pick books up in the first place, and how

This year, as judge of the Willesden Herald Short Story Prize, author Zadie Smith, decided not to give out the generous £5,000 (approximately $10,000) award. A panel had selected a

Recent NBCC finalist Susan Faludi is profiled at the Guardian, which also runs long excerpts from The Terror Dream, here and here. NBCC member Chuck Leddy reminds that Lincoln grabbed

Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor, the former whaling village on the East End of Long Island, has a wall of poetry books,readings every week, and lots of “local authors” on

We’ve never had a National Book Critics Circle event in Washington, DC before, so you’ll have to forgive my breathless fangirl prose. As soon-to-be NBCC board member Scott McLemee said

NBCC members and finalists and winners of our book award were eligible to vote in the winter edition of the NBCC’s Good Reads. Member critic Edward Nawotka voted for Lee

NBCC members and finalists and winners of our book award were eligible to vote in the winter edition of the NBCC’s Good Reads. Poet and critic Joel Brouwer voted for

NBCC members and finalists and winners of our book award were eligible to vote in the winter edition of the NBCC’s Good Reads. Biographer and fiction writer Julia Blackburn, whose