April 20, 2010
By Jonah Raskin
Critical Mass regularly highlights exemplary reviews by its members. Here, in a review originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jonah Raskin writes on Shelley Fisher Fishkin's omnibus The Mark
April 19, 2010
By Eric Banks
In short order, Critical Mass will be reporting the results of our semiannual NBCC Reads survey, which queried which work of fiction or nonfiction has the smartest things to say
April 16, 2010
By Wendy Smith
Here is the latest in our second series of guest posts on the next decade in book culture here (read the first here). Our question: How are you handling the
April 15, 2010
By L. Lee Lowe
Here is the latest in our second series of guest posts on the next decade in book culture here (read the first here). Our question: How are you handling the
April 13, 2010
By Jane Ciabattari
Jeff Howe, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard who originated the term crowdsourcing, had an idea a couple weeks ago, based on how the NEA's Big Read program worked: “What if
April 11, 2010
By Harriett Green
Here is the latest in our second series of guest posts on the next decade in book culture here (read the first here). Our question: How are you handling the
April 11, 2010
By Robert LeHue
Over the next month or so we're going to be offering a new series of guest posts (read the first series,”The Next Decade in Book Culture here). Our question: How
April 9, 2010
By Martha Cornog
Over the next month or so we're going to be offering a new series of guest posts (read the first series,”The Next Decade in Book Culture here). Our question: How
April 8, 2010
By Scott Esposito
Critical Mass regularly highlights exemplary reviews by its members. Here, in a review originally published in the LA Times, Scott Esposito offers his take on Kenzaburo Oe's novel The Changeling
April 5, 2010
By Aimee Bender
Over the next month or so we're going to be offering a new series of guest posts (read the first series,”The Next Decade in Book Culture here). Our question: How