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