Critical Notes

We’d like to thank you all so much for your support over this past year, and we hope that 2021 is a brighter year for all of us. Please stay

“Some wonder if the star of Bethlehem Occurred when Jupiter and Saturn crossed; It’s comforting to look up from this roof And feel that, while all changes, nothing’s lost, To

The NBCC will be celebrating the winners of our 2019 awards, and announcing the finalists for our 2020 awards, next month! We’d love it if you could join us at

Our members have been keeping busy this month, reviewing books by authors like Jane Smiley, Manuel Vilas, Marilynne Robinson, Ayad Akhtar and more, and interviewing writers like Susan Minot, David

We hope you all had a great holiday! This week, our members have reviews of books by Diane Cook, Caz Frear, Zaina Arafat, Simon Han, and more, along with interviews

“Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with

We hope you’re all having a great month so far! Our members have definitely been having a busy one, reviewing books by authors like Simon Han, Ellen Cooney, Phil Klay,

Our members have been keeping busy this fall, writing reviews of books by authors like Meena Kandasamy, Bryan Washington, Nicole Krauss, Martha S. Jones, Graham Swift and more, and interviewing

Member Reviews/Essays Christoph Irmscher reviewed Steven Turner’s The Science of James Smithson for The Wall Street Journal.  Heller McAlpin reviewed Martin Amis’s Inside Story for The Christian Science Monitor. Tom

We hope you’re all staying safe and getting in some quality reading time this fall! This week, our members have reviews of books by Don DeLillo, Kerri Arsenault, Bryan Washington,