April 14, 2007
By NBCC
In coming days and weeks, we'll be posting interviews with newly elected NBCC board members, so you can get to know them. First, NBCC board member Kevin Prufer interviews returning
April 14, 2007
By NBCC
LAST WEEK, Harcourt published Mohsin Hamid's second novel, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” a brisk rewriting of Albert Camus' “The Fall” (1957) for modern times. This weekend it lands at #6 (!)
April 8, 2007
By Jane Ciabattari
In presenting the NBCC award in criticism to Lawrence Weschler for “Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences” last month, NBCC president John Freeman called the book “a contagious, profoundly playful work
April 2, 2007
By Jessa Crispin
For the past two years, biological anthropologist Barbara J. King has written a monthly feature for my literary webzine, Bookslut.com. I believe the original idea was that she would write
March 30, 2007
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NEXT WEEK, Harcourt will publish Mohsin Hamid's second novel, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” a brisk rewriting of Albert Camus' “The Fall” (1957) for modern times. Only in this case, the two
February 24, 2007
By NBCC
Last month, Viking published Turkish writer Elif Shafak's latest novel, “The Bastard of Istanbul,” the story of an Armenian family and a Turkish Muslim family who discover, over the course
February 7, 2007
By Jane Ciabattari
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie returned to the US from Nigeria, where she was launching Half of a Yellow Sun in December, to learn the “lovely lovely news” that her novel was
January 12, 2007
By NBCC
Tom Stoppard's dying literary critic, Vissarion Belinsky, has this to say about his–and our–chosen calling, in “Shipwreck,” Part II of “The Coast of Utopia” trilogy: “I fell in love with
December 26, 2006
By Jennifer Reese
Melissa Fay Greene's first book, Praying for Sheetrock, recounted the struggle to bring civil rights to a rural Georgia county in the 1970s, and was a 1991 finalist for the
September 23, 2006
By NBCC
OVER THE NEXT YEAR, the NBCC will be talking to book editors and critics around the country. We recently caught up with Mark Rotella, senior reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and author ofStolen