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
November 20, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you’re having a great autumn! Some of our members, including Ilana Masad and Maris Kreizman, are working with the Freelance Solidarity Project, the digital media... Read More
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November 13, 2023
Invitation to Candidates for Election to the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors
By NBCC
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Critical Notes
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December 11, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well! Our members have been keeping busy this month with reviews of books by authors including Nina MacLaughlin, Anthony Veasna So, Paul Lynch,... Read More
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December 5, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, the NBCC has decided to extend our fundraising drive through the end of the year! As a token of our appreciation, we are sending donors who contribute... Read More
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November 27, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
This Giving Tuesday, please consider giving to the National Book Critics Circle, which is heading into its 50th anniversary. In light of book bans, shuttered book review sections, reduced compensation... 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