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

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

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.

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

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

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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

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