NBCC Reads: NBCC Featured Review

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

Conversations: SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: SARAH GAMBITO

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

NBCC Reads: Spring 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