May 10, 2010
By Mark Athitakis
This post continues a series on Critical Mass featuring websites dedicated to book reviewing online. When The Millions launched in 2003, it was among the first websites to include a
April 26, 2010
By Adam Kirsch
The following essay by Adam Kirsch on Robert Lowell's 1977 NBCC winner, “Day by Day,” appeared in 2007 in the In Retrospect series on Critical Mass in which critics and
April 23, 2010
By Mark Athitakis
This post launches a new series on Critical Mass featuring websites dedicated to book reviewing online. The Rumpus, headed by editor in chief Stephen Elliott, launched in 2008 as an
April 7, 2010
By Michael Gorra
The following essay from Balakian winner Michael Gorra, a look back at Shirley Hazzard's 1980 National Book Critics Circle fiction award winner, The Transit of Venus, was first published in
April 6, 2010
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
Suck on the Marrow, Red Hen Press, 2010. Camille T. Dungy is also the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen
March 28, 2010
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
As a Latino poet I’m lucky I’ve got two months (at least) of guaranteed literary attention: Latino Heritage Month in September (not Hispanic anymore, despite the outdated word’s presence
March 25, 2010
By James Marcus
We are now in our second year of “NBCC Reads.” This survey allows us to draw on the bookish expertise of our membership, along with former NBCC winners and nominees.
March 21, 2010
By Eric Banks
Critical Mass regularly highlights exemplary reviews by our member critics. Here, in an essay recently published at the Complete Review website, M.A. Orthofer discusses Émile Ajar's Hocus Bogus (Yale University
March 9, 2010
By artwinslow@earthlink.net
Each day leading up to the March 11 announcement of the 2009 NBCC award winners, Critical Mass highlights one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Art Winslow discusses
March 9, 2010
By James Marcus
Each day leading up to the March 11 announcement of the 2009 NBCC award winners, Critical Mass highlights one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member James Marcus discusses