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
June 26, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Hello, friends! Are you considering joining the NBCC? If so, we’d love to see you at an information session/Q&A this Wednesday, June 28, at 5:00 pm Pacific. You’re welcome to... 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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Critical Notes
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September 18, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you’ve been having a good September! If any of you are planning to be at the Brooklyn Book Festival later this month, we’d love for... Read More
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September 11, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
Members and friends, we hope you’re enjoying the last days of summer! Our members have been keeping busy this past week reviewing books by authors including Myriam Gurba, Zadie Smith,... Read More
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September 5, 2023
Reviews and More From NBCC Members
By Michael Schaub
All of us at the NBCC are mourning the loss of Richard Locke, who died on Aug. 25 in New York. Richard was the president of the NBCC from 1982... 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