September, 2018

NBCC’s Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Event: Is the Poet the New Public Intellectual?

by Admin | Sep-06-2018

Today’s Poet-Critics on Criticism and Critique September 14 201, 6:30 p.m. Poets House 10 River Terrace, New York, NY  National Book Critics Circle poetry...read »

NBCC Reads: Hamilton Cain on Edith Grossman’s translation of ‘Don Quixote’

by Hamilton Cain | Sep-05-2018

What are your favorite works in translation? That's the question that launches this summer's NBCC Reads series, which draws upon the bookish passions of NBCC...read »

Fall Books, Everyday People and Knausgaard

by Elizabeth Taylor | Sep-03-2018

NBCC VP/Online and past PresidentJane Ciabattari's September BBC Culture column features fiction by Gary Shtyngart, Deborah Eisenberg, Abby Geni and Lydia...read »

August, 2018

The Craft of Criticism: An Interview with Joanna Scutts

by Fran Bigman | Aug-31-2018

In this Q&A series, The Craft of Criticism, NBCC members Tara Cheesman and Fran Bigman ask book critics and review editors for their thoughts about...read »

NBCC Reads: Jennifer Croft &  Paul W. Gleason on Mikhail Zoshchenko’s ‘Sentimental Tales’

by Jane Ciabattari | Aug-29-2018

What are your favorite works in translation? That's the question that launches this summer's NBCC Reads series, which draws upon the bookish passions of...read »

Seuss, Coulter, Kwon, and More…

by Victoria Chang | Aug-27-2018

This week, the NBCC launched its first-ever fundraising campaign and we're off to a great start!  Your donation will help us maintain and upgrade our...read »

The Craft of Criticism: An Interview with Carlos Lozada

by Tara Cheesman | Aug-24-2018

In this Q&A series, The Craft of Criticism, NBCC members Tara Cheesman and Fran Bigman ask book critics and review editors for their thoughts about...read »

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