The latest from the National Book Critics Circle, including links to our members’ latest reviews, awards info and all things NBCC related.
News & Notes
Announcements
January 23, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By David Varno
Dear NBCC Friends, A week from tomorrow, we’ll announce the finalists for the 2022 NBCC awards. Stay tuned for a registration link. The strike at HarperCollins continues after two months, still with no... Read More
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December 8, 2022
AwardsNational Book Critics Circle Announces Inaugural Longlist of Barrios Book in Translation Prize
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Critical Notes
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January 23, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By David Varno
Dear NBCC Friends, A week from tomorrow, we’ll announce the finalists for the 2022 NBCC awards. Stay tuned for a registration link. The strike at HarperCollins continues after two months, still with no... Read More
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January 17, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By David Varno
Dates to save! The finalists for the 2022 NBCC awards will be announced during a virtual event on 1/31. The awards ceremony–live and in person!–will follow on 3/23. We couldn’t... Read More
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January 9, 2023
Reviews and More from NBCC Members
By David Varno
Dear NBCC Friends, Please join us in a hearty congratulations to Ryan Ruby and Parul Sehgal, winners of the second annual Silvers-Dudley prizes for literary criticism. Ruby is an NBCC member,... Read More
Criticism & Features
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March 16, 2022
Michael Schaub
30 Books
Clairvoyant of the Small by Susan BernofskyClairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Susan Bernofsky (Yale) “We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary,” Robert Walser once wrote. “We already see... Read More
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March 16, 2022
Michael Schaub
30 Books
Until I Am Free by Keisha N. Blain: 2021 Biography FinalistUntil I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain (Beacon) The title of Keisha N. Blain’s magnificent biography of Fannie Lou Hamer comes from... Read More
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March 16, 2022
Carlin Romano
30 Books
Fierce Poise by Alexander Nemerov: 2021 Biography FinalistFierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov (Penguin Press) A few months into my five years of teaching philosophy at Bennington College, a faculty colleague, during... Read More
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March 15, 2022
Carlin Romano
30 Books
Mike Nichols by Mark Harris: 2021 Biography FinalistMike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris (Penguin Press) Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky, a seven-year-old Jewish boy from Berlin, made it by ship to the U.S. in May, 1939. Exquisite timing,... Read More