Criticism & Features

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from theatlantic.com, Benjamin Schwarz reviews Kevin Starr’s Golden Dreams: California in an Age of

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from The Brooklyn Rail, Paul Devlin reviews Jackson Lears’s Rebirth of a Nation: The

Continuing with with the Long Tail series, we have suggestions from critic Parul Hinzen and from Leora Skolkin-Smith, whose novel Edges was published in 2005. (You can read the earlier,

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from Truthdig, Troy Jollimore reviews Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God. The title of

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the San Francisco Chronicle, Regan McMahon reviews Jonah Raskin’s Field Days: A Year

Rolling on with the Long Tail series, we have suggestions from Ted Gioia, whose The Birth (and Death) of the Cool will be published in November, and from Jamie Brown.

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from Bookforum.com, Rebecca Donner reviews Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women. Multigenerational novels

NBCC member Jonah Raskin, in Paris to do readings and radio interview for his new book, Field Days, sends this dispatch on what the French are reading this summer. Whenever

To continue the Long Tail series, we have suggestions from Jim Gibbons and from Susan Larson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. (You can read the earlier, omnibus post here. And

Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the Los Angeles Times, Art Winslow reviews Leonard Zeskind’s Blood and Politics: The