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August 6, 2009

NBCC Reads: NBCC Featured Review: Benjamin Schwarz on Kevin Starr

By Eric Banks

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

July 31, 2009

NBCC Reads: NBCC Featured Review: Paul Devlin on Jackson Lears

By Eric Banks

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

July 31, 2009

NBCC Reads: Long Tail: Parul Hinzen and Leora Skolkin-Smith

By James Marcus

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,

July 25, 2009

NBCC Reads: NBCC Featured Review: Troy Jollimore on Robert Wright

By Eric Banks

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

July 17, 2009

NBCC Reads: NBCC Featured Review: Regan McMahon on Jonah Raskin

By Eric Banks

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

July 17, 2009

NBCC Reads: Spring 2009: Long Tail—Ted Gioia and Jamie Brown

By James Marcus

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.

July 7, 2009

NBCC Reads: NBCC Featured Review: Rebecca Donner on Kate Walbert

By Eric Banks

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

July 4, 2009

NBCC Reads: Guest Post: Jonah Raskin on What the French Are Reading

By Jane Ciabattari

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

June 30, 2009

NBCC Reads: Spring 2009: Jim Gibbons and Susan Larson

By James Marcus

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

June 24, 2009

NBCC Reads: NBCC Featured Review: Art Winslow on Leonard Zeskind

By Eric Banks

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

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