September 14, 2010
By Mark Athitakis
This post continues a series on Critical Mass featuring websites dedicated to book reviewing online. Read previous Q&As with The Rumpus, The Millions, The Quarterly Conversation, Open Letters Monthly, Three Percent,
September 12, 2010
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
PHOTO CREDIT: PETER DRESSEL Diwata, Boa Editions, Ltd., 2010. Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author
September 5, 2010
By Jane Ciabattari
A passionate group of readers showed up at Book Passage in Corte Madera, California in early August to talk about the most memorable books about conjugal love, the latest in
August 27, 2010
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
PHOTO CREDIT: RACHEL WEDDING McCLELLAND Drowning Tucson, Coffee House Press, 2010. Aaron Michael Morales grew up in Tucson and now teaches writing and literature at Indiana State University. Few books
August 25, 2010
By Vince Passaro
In Critical Mass's ongoing “In Retrospect,” in which contemporary critics revisit former winners and finalists for the National Book Critics Awards, Vince Passaro, a critic and author of “Violence Nudity
August 18, 2010
By Wyatt Mason
The following essay on Philip Roth's 1979 NBCC finalist The Ghost Writer, from Nona Balakian Citation winning critic Wyatt Mason, is part of the Critical Mass In Retrospect series, in
August 10, 2010
By Matthew Tiffany
Another response to the third question in our Next Decade in Book Culture series, from Matthew Tiffany, whose literary blog is Condalmo. I. The wording of the question points
August 9, 2010
By Eric Banks
The Times LIterary Supplement has been publishing an excellent series of columns this summer by Michael Dirda about his career at Washington Post Book World, which we're pleased to post
August 5, 2010
By Linda White
In doing research for a recent client, I recently came across a subterranean (or maybe not so hidden) realm of book and literary sites. I can’t believe I didn’t find
August 3, 2010
By Eric Banks
The Times LIterary Supplement has been publishing an excellent series of columns this summer by Michael Dirda about his career at Washington Post Book World. Critical Mass thanks the TLS