Events

Register for our finalists reading at this link: https://www.wildboundlive.com/events/nbcc2024. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Register for our awards ceremony and reception at this link: https://www.wildboundlive.com/events/nbcc2024. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Join Maureen Freely, translator of Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü, winner of the 2023 Barrios Book in Translation Prize, in conversation with Mandana Chaffa, Vice President of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize, on October 9, 2024, 6:30 pm ET Attendance free; registration required: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rZluUFwcRECWFc72AMmIvw

In its fiftieth anniversary year, the National Book Critics Circle gathers literary critics who have been defining the future of contemporary cultural criticism in recent years in a wide-ranging interactive roundtable conversation about the future of the form. With Jane Ciabattari, Anita Felicelli, Jonathan Leal, and Oscar Villalon. Moderated by NBCC President Heather Scott Partington.

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, brings together vital voices in cultural criticism and practitioners of literary arts in its annual prizes and other programming throughout the year. As the NBCC celebrates its 50th anniversary, we propose a dynamic conversation for the Boston Book Festival, gathering Boston-area critics and writers who have served

The National Book Critics Circle was conceived and founded in April 1974. What began with founding members John Leonard, Nona Balakian, and Ivan Sandrof over drinks at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan became a national conversation between critics. 50 years later, the National Book Critics Circle remains a force in American literary society through its

Please join freelance book critics Tope Folarin, Zoe Hu, and Hillary Kelly, as well as The Nation’s associate literary editor Kevin Lozano, for a panel discussion about why the book criticism landscape has shrunk—and how to navigate it.. Moderated by NBCC board member Adam Dalva, the panel will discuss the ongoing shift from substantive criticism to

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A special fiftieth-anniversary literary partner National Book Critics Circle featured reading at the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles, with all-star fiction writers Jonathan Escoffery, Jonathan Lethem, and Justin Torres, three authors honored as NBCC finalists or award winners, whose work is breaking new ground. Readings and conversation, moderated by NBCC President Heather

Three of the most accomplished poetry critics today, Stephanie Burt, Anahid Nersessian, and David Orr, discuss being a poetry critic, the state of poetry criticism, and the pleasures and practicalities of becoming such a critic now. NBCC President Adam Dalva introduces the panel, and NBCC board members Rebecca Morgan Frank and David Woo serve as