Critical Notes

Dear NBCC Friends, Hope those of you in the northeast are enjoying the snow day. Today’s entertainment: throwing snowballs for the dog to chase. By the time we host our awards

AWP is coming up in a few weeks! If you’re planning to travel to Seattle, please stop by our booth and say hi! Also please be sure to check out our

Remember to keep up with our 30 Books in 30 Days series, where we will be spotlighting the finalists for the 2022 NBCC Awards in the weeks leading up to the

Last Tuesday, we announced the finalists for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards! Congratulations to all who were selected. If you missed the event, you can watch it her. You can

Dear NBCC Friends, We can’t wait to share the finalists for the 2022 NBCC awards. Tune in tomorrow night for the virtual presentation, produced by Wildbound Live.  Reviews Martha Anne Toll

Dear NBCC Friends,  A week from tomorrow, we’ll announce the finalists for the 2022 NBCC awards. Stay tuned for a registration link. The strike at HarperCollins continues after two months, still with no

Dates to save! The finalists for the 2022 NBCC awards will be announced during a virtual event on 1/31. The awards ceremony–live and in person!–will follow on 3/23. We couldn’t

Dear NBCC Friends, Please join us in a hearty congratulations to Ryan Ruby and Parul Sehgal, winners of the second annual Silvers-Dudley prizes for literary criticism. Ruby is an NBCC member,

As we dig our way out of the empty champagne bottles and dried-up pine needles, our trenches of galleys remain. Here’s to a new year of new books and engaging

The landscape for print media continues to be volatile, with layoffs at the Washington Post and the closing of Bookforum as the twice-shuttered Believer finds new life at its original home, McSweeney’s. Meanwhile, new online outlet The