NBCC Featured Review
January, 2010
NBCC Featured Review: Brooke Allen on Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness
by Eric Banks | Jan-26-2010
Critical Mass regularly highlights an exemplary review by an NBCC member. This week, we feature Brooke Allen, a 2007 finalist for the NBCC's Nona Balakian ...read »
NBCC Featured Review: Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard
by Eric Banks | Jan-12-2010
Critical Mass regularly highlights an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Here, in a review first published in the , Cynthia L. Haven considers René ...read »
NBCC Featured Review: Diane Scharper on Alice Sebold’s Best American Short Stories 2009
by Eric Banks | Jan-05-2010
Each week Critical Mass highlights an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Here, in a review first published in the Wall Street Journal, Diane Scharper, ...read »
November, 2009
NBCC Featured Review: Matthew Tiffany on Laird Hunt
by Eric Banks | Nov-01-2009
Each week Critical Mass highlights an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member. Here, in a review that appeared at The Quarterly ...read »
October, 2009
NBCC Featured Review: Brendan Patrick Hughes on Yu Hua
by Eric Banks | Oct-18-2009
Each week Critical Mass features an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Below, in a review that originally appeared in Worlds Without Borders, Brendan Patrick ...read »
NBCC Featured Review: John Domini on Richard Powers
by Eric Banks | Oct-13-2009
Each week Critical Mass features an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Below, in a review that originally appeared in Bookforum, John Domini considers ...read »
NBCC Featured Review: Brian Sholis on Rebecca Solnit
by Eric Banks | Oct-04-2009
Each week Critical Mass features an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Below, in a review that originally appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Brian Sholis ...read »
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