Criticism & Features

Jan Harayda served as Vice President/Awards for the National Book Critics Circle. She sent these remarks in celebration of the NBCC’s 35th, and joined in the webcast celebration on September

Former NBCC board member Kit Reed remembers the ups and downs in the 1990s, as part of her participation in the 35th anniversary celebration at WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance

Former board member Constance Casey, who writes for Slate, recalled the board in the late 1980s during the NBCC’s 35th anniversary celebration at WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space on

Cultural critic and former NBCC board member Greil Marcus, author of “Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century” (1989), “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock and Roll”

Former NBCC president Herbert Leibowitz offered these thoughts on his time on the board, as part of the NBCC 35th anniversary celebration at WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space on

Each week Critical Mass highlights an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Here, in an essay originally published in the Boston Review, Robert Archambeau considers two recent collections by Swedish

Joel Conarroe, President Emeritus, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, former president, PEN American Center, shares his memories of colleagues during his time on the NBCC board in the 1980s. Brevity,

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. This week, in a review originally published in the Miami Herald, Christine Thomas considers Erick