Critical Notes

  NBCC fiction awardee Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah makes Time magazine's list of 30 books to read before you're 30 (along with fiction finalists Teju Cole's Open City, Lauren Groff's

  Former NBCC board president, and current board member Tom Beer wrote about new books this week for Newsday.  Star Tribune senior editor for books and NBCC board member Laurie

​​photo by Chad Batka/NYT NBCC Balakian winning critic Parul Sehgal is interviewed by Durga Chew-Bose in SSENSE.  NBCC VP and Online Chair Jane Ciabattari's BBC Culture column–a global books column

Reminder: NBCC Balakian award submissions from members are due December 17. The award for excellence in book criticism includes a $1,000 cash prize funded by former NBCC board member Gregg

Louise Erdrich reads from “Future Home of the Living God” in Minneapolis on pub day. Reviews and profiles For the Seattle Times, board member Mary Ann Gwinn interviewed David Buerge about

NBCC members are in the thick of the #NBCCLeonard awards process, nominating books and writing blog posts about their favorites. The awards, for a first book in any genre published

NBCC and Lambda are hosting a literary mixer next Wednesday, November 8th at Folksbier in Brooklyn. Details are available here.  John Domini interviews Jenny Erpebeck for Bookforum, and praises her novel Go, Went,

                                    Reviews and other news: NBCC board member Yahdon Israel was interviewed in

Reviews and interviews Board member Mary Ann Gwinn interviewed David Neiwert, author of  “Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump,” for the Seattle Times. Board member Laurie

                      Reviews and other news: The Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Kazuo Ishiguro, whose 2005 novelNever Let Me Go”