Awards

Jane Austen wrote about private lives, nary a hint of the Napoleonic Wars. Not an option for writers today; the public world intrudes, Salman Rushdie reminded us in his welcome

Public radio station WNYC in New York and PRI (Public Radio International) are launching The Takeaway, a new morning news program hosted live by NPR and NBC Dateline journalist John

Hari Kunzru’s “My Revolutions” is the book I’m telling people to grab.  Kunzru is burning up in this novel.  He spins a superb tale and his narrator’s plummet down the

Emilie Buchwald “discovery” Ken Kalfus was on hand last Thursday night to present the founder of Milkweed Editions with the National Book Critics Circle Sandrof award, named after a founding

Recently departed NBCC president and NBCC member John Freeman introduces a reading in the ongoing informal Critical Mass series tonight in New York City: Susan Choi, author of A Person

NBCC board member and former Balakian award winner Maureen N. McLane announced the winner of the 2007 NBCC award in criticism on Thursday, March 6, with these remarks: It has

This just in from Alf Wagermo, reporting on behalf of the Norwegian Critics’ Association, that country’s NBCC equivalent. On Thursday 6th of March the author Carl Frode Tiller was awarded

The Balakian Award for Excellence in Reviewing is named in honor of Nona Balakian,a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle and its first secretary. She worked on the

I became a book critic so I wouldn’t have to talk to anybody-especially not large crowds of intimidatingly literate people-so I’m mildly terrified right now. My wife is a psychologist,

The blog will be a bit quiet for the next few days:  Today the NBCC board of directors holds its first meeting of the 2008 season to welcome new board