The latest from the National Book Critics Circle, including links to our members’ latest reviews, awards info and all things NBCC related.
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May 1, 2023
Reviews and More from NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you’re having a good spring! A few quick notes: Applications for the 2023-2024 Emerging Critics Fellowship are due Friday, May 5, by 11:59 PM Pacific.... Read More
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March 27, 2023
AwardsAn Interview with 2022 NBCC Nona Balakian Award Winner Jennifer Wilson
By Kathy Chow
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March 27, 2023
AwardsJoy Harjo and Her Poetencies: An Interview with the 2022 NBCC Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
By Ricardo Jaramillo
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March 27, 2023
AwardsAn Interview with NBCC Service Award Winner Barbara Hoffert
By Halima Elmajdoubi
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Critical Notes
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June 5, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
We hope you’ve all been doing well! Our members haven’t been taking any breaks lately. They’ve been reviewing books by authors including R.F. Kuang, Jenny Erpenbeck, Roger Reeves, Stacey Abrams,... Read More
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May 30, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
We hope you’re having a good spring! Our members have been busy writing reviews of books by authors including Brandon Taylor, Ava Chin, Katy Kelleher, Jane Wong, Claire Dederer, and... Read More
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May 22, 2023
Reviews and More from NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
“Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life.” —Martin Amis (1949-2023), winner of the 2001 NBCC Award for Criticism Member Reviews and Essays Maud Newton reviewed Leah... Read More
Criticism & Features
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March 12, 2023
Elizabeth Taylor
30 Books
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly GageIn her towering biography of one of the most powerful unelected officials in American history, Beverly Gage tells the story of the quintessential Government Man, John Edgar Hoover. He reigned... Read More
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March 10, 2023
David Varno
30 Books
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl PinckneyConsummate essayist and novelist Darryl Pinckney’s lively and layered memoir has so much going on—any given page is rich with anecdotes, insights, and searching questions—that it eludes a quick summary.... Read More
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March 9, 2023
Elizabeth Taylor
30 Books
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. GreenidgeSarah and Angelina Grimke have been celebrated as the sisters who came to abhor the slave system upon which their prominent South Carolina slaveholding family’s wealth depended. They defied the... Read More
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March 8, 2023
J. Howard Rosier
30 Books
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Peter BrooksThough aimed at the literary humanities—the loose cluster of English, philosophy, history, and theological studies that, if current debates are any indication, have fallen on hard times—Peter Brooks’s Seduced by... Read More