Criticism & Features

Due to a scheduling conflict, Helen Vendler was unable to do an interview on “Day by Day” this week, as originally planned. But she has already said plenty about the book. In fact, she

It seems to me that Day By Day always had the chiaroscuro not just of a late, but of a posthumous publication. A little baggy, a little wispy, a little

In the fall of 1969, as a freshman, I applied, and was admitted, to Robert Lowell's advanced poetry workshop at Harvard, a coveted class with a limited enrollment of ten. A couple

Want to read some of the poems from “Day by Day?” You can read “Homecoming” and“Epilogue” online at the Academy of American Poets. You can read Frederick Seidel's Paris Review interview with Robert Lowell

AS PART of an ongoing series, the NBCC is talking to book editors and critics around the country. We recently caught up with Jerome Weeks, book critic for The Dallas

I lately had a revelation while listening to ‘Lakes Of Pontchartrain’by Canadian country band, The Be Good Tanyas. It was this: ‘I’m listening to country – what the hell?’  Not so long

From Morris Dickstein's NBCC finalist,“Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties.” “The recurrent flurries of nostalgia for the 1950s — and the eerie feeling that, but for the economic

On May 22, Khaled Hosseini published his second novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” the story of two women who grew up in different eras in Afghanistan and wind up married