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
May 14, 2020
An Open Letter to Newspapers and Other Media Outlets
By Laurie Hertzel
An open letter to newspapers and other media outlets from the Authors Guild and the National Book Critics Circle Media outlets in particular have been hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis,... Read More
Critical Notes
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May 26, 2020
New reviews and more from NBCC members
By Michael Schaub
All of us on the NBCC board hope you had a great holiday, even if it wasn’t quite the same as years before. (Sure, the cookout might have had much... Read More
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May 18, 2020
New reviews and more from NBCC members
By Michael Schaub
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the journalism industry hard, with many media outlets laying off staffers and cutting freelance assignments. But we strongly believe that conversations about literature are desperately... Read More
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May 11, 2020
New reviews, interviews, and more from the NBCC
By Michael Schaub
We hope you’re having a great Thursday! Or whatever day it is. We’ve been in quarantine so long, we honestly don’t know anymore. Luckily, our members know what books you... Read More
Criticism & Features
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March 11, 2020
Kerri Arsenault
30 Books
The Buried by Peter Hessler: 2019 Nonfiction finalistThe Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler (Penguin Press) Peter Hessler excavates political and cultural landscapes in Egypt in the mid- to waning days of the... Read More
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March 11, 2020
Hope Wabuke
30 Books
No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder: 2019 Nonfiction finalistIt starts with a woman who has been killed—along with her children—by her husband. There is the inability of some of her surviving family to speak of it; the need,... Read More
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March 10, 2020
Tess Taylor
30 Books
Doomstead Days by Brian Teare: 2019 Poetry finalist“To praise this, blame that, / Leads one subtly away from the beginning, where / We must stay, in motion.” This quote from John Ashbery’s “Houseboat Days” anchors Teare’s latest... Read More
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March 9, 2020
David Varno
30 Books
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner: 2019 Fiction finalistA number of novels have come out in recent years with a promise of having something to say about the American interior, whether through stories of opioid addiction, combat veterans,... Read More