September 20, 2009
By Craig Morgan Teicher
As the last couple of days of summer appear, here is poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke on her summer and fall reading I usually read a few books for pleasure
August 5, 2009
By Eric Banks
This summer I’ve been doing something I’ve always wanted to do, which is to listen to Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on my iPod. I’ve read lots
July 29, 2009
By Craig Morgan Teicher
Like other busy people I tend to read more during the summer, though rarely do I take on one big project (every Shax play, all of Musil’s The Man Without
December 18, 2008
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali Ali’s premature death in 2001 was a devastating loss to a number of communities (literary, immigrant, gay). Among many of
June 12, 2008
By NBCC
There will be no beach, not even a lawn chair or a cozy recliner to ease this critic into the mood for literature, it’s enough that the books themselves, by
June 3, 2008
By NBCC
Traditionally I ease into summer with some light entertainment, and Ian Frazier’s Lamentations of the Father (FSG) fits the bill to perfection. Frazier is funny even in his fatter, more
April 17, 2008
By NBCC
Longtime NBCC member and former board member Steve Weinberg has had a big few months: His new book, “Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John
April 11, 2007
By Gary Giddins
We asked Gary Giddins, NBCC award winner for criticism,whose latest book is “Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books,” what was on his “to read” list: As I
April 3, 2007
By Maureen McLane
Five books I'm looking forward to reading this spring: Susan Sontag, “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches” (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, March): This may turn out to be a
March 28, 2007
By Edward Pettit
From NBCC member Edward Pettit: The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving by Andrew Burstein, Basic (March) John Donne: the Reformed Soul by John Stubbs, Norton (April) White Walls and