Critical Notes

We hope you’re all having a great summer! Our members have been busy the past week, writing reviews of books by authors including Edmund White, Ivy Pochoda, Thao Thai, Siddhartha

Friends, we hope you’re having a good summer! Our members have been keeping busy reviewing books by authors including Adrienne Brodeur, Jane Smiley, Richard Ford, and Maria Bamford, and interviewing

“I hear people talking about going on a vacation or something and I think, what is that about? I have no desire to go on a trip. My perfect day

Member Reviews and Essays NBCC board member J. Howard Rosier wrote about Annie Ernaux’s Look at the Lights, My Love, for The Atlantic. Kathleen Rooney reviewed Dorothy Tse’s Owlish, translated

We hope you’ve all been doing well! Our members haven’t been taking any breaks lately. They’ve been reviewing books by authors including R.F. Kuang, Jenny Erpenbeck, Roger Reeves, Stacey Abrams,

We hope you’re having a good spring! Our members have been busy writing reviews of books by authors including Brandon Taylor, Ava Chin, Katy Kelleher, Jane Wong, Claire Dederer, and

“Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life.”  —Martin Amis (1949-2023), winner of the 2001 NBCC Award for Criticism Member Reviews and Essays Maud Newton reviewed Leah