February 7, 2007
By Kevin Prufer
Today's posts will focus on Miltos Sachtouris' “Poems (1945-1971), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. “Reading his poetry,” translator Karen Emmerich has noted, “one
February 6, 2007
By Ellen Heltzel
Today's post focuses on “The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million,” by Daniel Mendelsohn (HarperCollins), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle prize for autobiography.
February 5, 2007
By Heather McAlpin
Today's posts will focus on Alison Bechdel's FUN HOME, a finalist for the 2006 NBCC award in autobiography. ARE MEMORIES predominantly visual or verbal? Alison Bechdel draws on all
February 5, 2007
By Marcela Valdes
Today's posts will focus on “My Brother is Getting Arrested Again” by Daisy Fried (University of Pittsburgh Press), which is a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.
February 2, 2007
By Steve Weinberg
“The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade” by Ann Fessler (The Penguin Press) is a finalist
February 1, 2007
By Jane Ciabattari
Today's post looks at a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the autobiography category, Terri Jentz's memoir Strange Piece of Paradise, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
January 30, 2007
By Jennifer Reese
Julie Phillip's “James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon” is a finalist for the 2006 NBCC Award in Biography. SHE IS REMEMBERED, when she is remembered at all,
January 27, 2007
By Lev Grossman
Today's posts will address former NBCC winner Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, “The Road,” a finalist for the 2006 NBCC prize for fiction. How cool is Cormac McCarthy (not to be confused with
January 27, 2007
By John Freeman
Until the November election last, it seemed like there was a new book about Iraq published every month, from Thomas E. Rick's “Fiasco” to the Iraq Study Group report. Fittingly,
January 26, 2007
By NBCC
Here's a short passage from “The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq,” a finalist for the 2006 NBCC award in nonfiction: My favorite military spokesman was Brigadier General Mark Kimmit, who