May 21, 2009
By Eric Banks
Beginning today, Critical Mass will regularly feature an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from Open Letters: A Monthly Arts and Letters Review, NBCC member
May 21, 2009
By Eric Banks
Beginning today, Critical Mass will regularly feature an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from Open Letters: A Monthly Arts and Letters Review, NBCC member
May 19, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Michael Lukas, a finalist in the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Young Reviewers Contest last year (and a VQR blogger), sent word on what he’s looking forward to reading this
May 17, 2009
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
Delivered, Persea Books, 2009.Sarah Gambito is the author of a previous collection, Matadora. She is co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization that promotes Asian American poetry, and is Assistant Professor
May 14, 2009
By James Marcus
Although we posted our omnibus summary of responses last week, we will continue to highlight individual choices through the end of this month. To kick off the Long Tail series,
May 12, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Christopher Beha is an editor at Harper’s Magazine. The Whole Five Feet, his memoir of reading the Harvard Classics, was released last week by Grove Press. He’s passed along to
May 9, 2009
By Eric Banks
In this series, writers look back at past NBCC award winners. Here, poet Randall Mann revisits My Alexandria, by Mark Doty, recipient of the 1993 NBCC award in poetry. My
May 7, 2009
By Barbara Hoffert
National Book Critics Circle Announces Results of Latest NBCC Reads Survey For release Wednesday, May 6, 2009 This Wednesday, May 6, check out the National Book Critics Circle’s blog, Critical
May 6, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Sooner or later, a guy writing short stories in English is going to have to come up against Richard Ford, whose work from Rock Springs to A Multitude of Sins
May 6, 2009
By James Marcus
Visitors to Critical Mass will recall that in the fall, we canvassed the membership (as well as former winners and nominees) about which books best captured the realities of American