Criticism & Features

Former NBCC president Rebecca Miller describes a critical transition time: Closing the deal on the 501 (c) 3 status, entering the digital era, and freeing Autobiography. Here are remarks from

NBCC READS: Translation Panel National Book Critics Circle, Litquake, and City Lights presentCollapsing Borders: Reading Global Culture Through Literary TranslationCity Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway (North Beach), San

Here’s former NBCC board member Kit Reed on the vook: Oh goody, now we’re invited to “read”—or is it experience—the vook, which may be fine if, for instance, a person

NBCC member Kassie Rose, book critic for the Ohio NPR affiliate WOSU Public Media, who blogs here, sends us these thoughts on the future of the NBCC at this critical

On the occasion of the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s death this week, NBCC member Allen Barra sent along the following thoughts on the writer’s fading star. Someone – I’ve

David Lehman was NBCC VP/Programs in the late 1980s. His Best American Poetry blog here. Christoper Ricks, Connie Casey, Brigitte Weeks, Wendy Lesser, Timothy Foote, Doris Grumbach, Alida Becker, Joel

Each week Critical Mass features an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Below, in a review that originally appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Brian Sholis considers Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise

Former NBCC board member (and NBCC awardee in poetry for “Antarctic Traveller”) Katha Pollitt sends her reflections on “how the sausage is made” from Berlin. I won the NBCC Award

Each week Critical Mass features an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Below, in a review that originally appeared in the Austin American-Statesman, Edward Nawotka considers Dan Chaon’s new novel