May, 2018

Road Trips with Andrew Sean Greer and Better Times for Women in Hollywood

by David Varno | May-29-2018

NBCC board member and Best Translated Book Award judge Lori Feathers writes about why My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye should win this year's BTBA fiction...read »

Ian MacKenzie, William Trevor, Sarah Winman & Flash Fiction

by Taylor Anhalt | May-21-2018

NBCC Vice President/Online Jane Ciabattari’s flash fiction, #BrooklynAftertheFall, was published in the flash anthology commissioned for Independent...read »

NBCC at Book Expo America:  The Crisis in Book Reviewing: Disappearing Space, Disappearing Pay

by Jane Ciabattari | May-15-2018

The Crisis in Book Reviewing: Disappearing Space, Disappearing Pay Date: May 30, 2018,  12:00 PM - 12:50 PM Location: Book Expo America, Jacob Javits...read »

Critical Notes: NBCC members review Rachel Kushner, Michael Ondaatje and More

by Daisy Fried | May-14-2018

Rayyan Al-Shawa reviewed Audrey Schulman's Theory of Bastards in The Globe and Mail. Here’s board member Kerri Arsenault on an early lesson in labor and...read »

SAVE THE DATE: NBCC MEMBERSHIP MEETING MAY 30

by Jane Ciabattari | May-10-2018

                  Please join us for this year's National Book Critics Circle  General Membership meeting Wednesday, May 30 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.  To...read »

Straight-ahead book reviews and backwards books

by Laurie Hertzel | May-07-2018

NBCC board member Laurie Hertzel wrote her weekly Star Tribune column on the strange and disturbing trend of shelving books spine-in. Board member Lori...read »

Join the NBCC to Celebrate Books: A Call for New and Renewing Members

by Anjali Enjeti | May-03-2018

Criticism has never been a more vital and necessary force than it is today. And since its founding in April of 1974, the National Book Critics Circle has...read »

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