Critical Notes

Dear NBCC Members, This week, the literary world awaits the announcement of the Nobel Prize winner for 2022. Guiding us as usual through the crowded and geographically scattered field of deserving

Dear NBCC Friends, We at the NBCC are remembering the work of Hilary Mantel, who died last week at 70, and whose Wolf Hall won the 2009 NBCC fiction award. Board member Linda Wolfe, in

Dear NBCC Friends, To help kick off the Brooklyn Book Festival, the NBCC will hold a virtual Bookend event on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 7pm-8pm ET with John Leonard Prize winners and nominees Torrey

Dear NBCC Friends, We’ve lost some great ones in the blink of a week. At the NBCC, we’re remembering the work of trailblazing journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, whose Fear of Falling: The

Greetings, NBCC Friends, We hope you had a fabulous long weekend. Here’s to the start of fall, a great season for books—and, of course, book reviews!! Read on for what

Greetings, NBCC Members and Friends, We hope you’re busy enjoying the last weeks of summer and, of course, enjoying a few good reads as well. Here’s what our members have

Greetings, NBCC Friends, TONS of reviews, interviews, and pieces of good news from our members to report this week. As always, thanks for sharing and reading!! In the Spotlight Diary

Greetings, NBCC Friends, In the aftermath of the horrific attack against novelist Salman Rushdie, the National Book Critics Circle remains committed to advocating for the right to freedom of expression for

Greetings, NBCC friends, Yesterday, the NBCC released a statement condemning the repression and killing of Burmese writers, and announcing our commitment to standing with PEN Myanmar, the Myanmar Poets’ Union

Welcome to another week of unrelenting heat, humidity, and maddening literary discourse. Fortunately, we’ve got lots of very smart book reviews to catch up on. (Also recommended: Unplug! Log out!