Critical Notes

Reviews NBCC VP/Online Jane Ciabattari's October BBC Culture column includes novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Cristina Rivera Garza, Claire Fuller, Alyson Hagy, Haruki Murakami and Kirstin Allio, and a new biography

Reviews, interviews and profiles by our members This week's Craft of Criticism series interview is with NBCC biography award winner Ruth Franklin. This week's NBCC Reads/Favorite Work in Translation is

Reviews & Interviews Fran Bigman interviews former NBCC board member Laura Miller in the latest addition to the NBCC  Craft of Criticism series. Ian P. Beacock reviewed Holly Case’s “The

Coming up Friday, September 14, at Poets House: NBCC's official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event, Is the Poet the New Public Intellectual? moderated by board member Tess Taylor, with board

NBCC VP/Online and past PresidentJane Ciabattari's September BBC Culture column features fiction by Gary Shtyngart, Deborah Eisenberg, Abby Geni and Lydia Kiesling, and nonfiction from NBCC  nonfiction finalist Miriam Pawel

This week, the NBCC launched its first-ever fundraising campaign and we're off to a great start!  Your donation will help us maintain and upgrade our website, support our emerging writers

  But first, some important and very good news: We’ve got some exciting news. The link to our Google spreadsheet with more than 60 book review publications has now gone live on the membership

Jenny Bhatt reviewed Stephanie Rosenbloom's “Alone Time” for Popmatters. Jane Ciabattari recommended ten books to read in August for BBC Culture. John Domini reviewed Laura Van den Berg's novel, “The Third Hotel” for the

This week's Craft of Criticism interview is with NBCC VP/Awards Yahdon Israel. Reviews Ron Slate reviewed Rebecca Makkai’s novel “The Great Believers” for On The Seawall. Steve Donoghue reviewed Paul French's “City

NBCC President Kate Tuttle talks to Alexander Chee about his new book, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, and about researching his own life, for The Boston Globe. R.O. Kwon's