NBCC member Nicole Schrag reviewed "Discontent," written by Beatriz Serrano and translated from the Spanish by Maya Faye Lethem, for On the Seawall:

NBCC Vice President/Technology and Co-Vice President/Membership Rebecca Hussey reviewed Issa Quincy's novel "Absence" for Full Stop:

NBCC member Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed David Greig’s "The Book of I" for Shelf Awareness:

For the Duluth News Tribune, Jay Gabler wrote about why so many romance novels are set in the world of hockey:

NBCC board member Mary Ann Gwinn interviewed historian Jill Lepore for Kirkus Reviews about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution":

NBCC member Sullivan Summer was profiled in a recent issue of the New Books Network Newsletter: buff.ly/yFs8CFB

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson’s "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free":

NBCC member Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed Fannie Flagg’s "Something to Look Forward To" for Shelf Awareness:

NBCC member Randy Cepuch reviewed Jane Leavy's "Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It" for the Washington Independent Review of Books:

NBCC member Jim Schley reviewed William Homestead’s memoir "Not Till We Are Lost: Thoreau, Education, and Climate Crisis" for Seven Days:

NBCC member Benjamin Woodard reviewed "Absence" by Issa Quincy and "The Hairdresser's Son," written by Gerbrand Bakker and translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Hannah Weber reviewed "We Computers," written by Hamid Ismailov and translated from the Uzbek by Susan Fairweather-Vega, for Words Without Borders:

NBCC member Grant Faulkner interviewed Myriam Gurba about her memoir, "Mean," and the forthcoming "Poppy State" on the Memoir Nation podcast:

For the Duluth News Tribune, NBCC member Jay Gabler interviewed Elle Andra-Warner, author of "Edmund Fitzgerald: The Legendary Great Lakes Shipwreck":

NBCC member Jack Rockwell's translation of Daniela Alcívar Bellolio's “River Landscape” appeared last week in The Common:

NBCC member Britta Stromeyer reviewed "Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues," written by Kim de L’Horizon and translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle, for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed Katherine Larson’s "Wedding of the Foxes" for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Bill Thompson reviewed Marc Berman’s "Nature and the Mind" for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier:

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed "Playing Wolf," written by Zuzana Říhová and translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker, for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Meredith Maran reviewed Elizabeth Gilbert’s "All the Way to the River" for The Washington Post:

NBCC Co-Vice President/Events Jane Ciabattari checked in with NBCC fiction award winner Joan Silber about writing about friendship and the meaning of mercy for her Literary Hub conversation series:

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll interviewed author Johan Harstad and translator David M. Smith (The Red Handler) for Vol. 1 Brooklyn:

The first chapter of former NBCC board member Rod Davis' new novel, "Life in the Time of Hurricanes," has been excerpted at the Texas Observer website as part of a remembrance of the 20-year anniversary of the devastation of hurricane Katrina:

NBCC member Charlotte E. Rosen reviewed Bench Ansfield’s Born in Flames for Protean Magazine:

NBCC member Charles Green reviewed John F. Andrews' "Dogs Don't Cry" for Blueink Review:

NBCC member Ruth Joffre reviewed "Chilco," written by Daniela Catrileo and translated from the Spanish by Jacob Edelstein, for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Tom Peebles reviewed Quinn Slobodian’s "Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right" on his personal blog:

NBCC member Valerie Duff-Strautmann reviewed Lisa Wells’ "The Fire Passage" for On the Seawall:

For the podcast A Meal of Thorns, NBCC member Jake Casella Brookins talked to critic Zachary Gillan about Jeff VanderMeer's "Authority":

NBCC member Martha Anne Toll was interviewed by David Naimon about "Duet for One," for the Between the Covers podcast:

NBCC member Ron Slate reviewed several books for On The Seawall:

NBCC member Julia M. Klein reviewed Daniel Pollack-Pelzner's "Lin-Manuel Miranda" for the Los Angeles Times:

NBCC member Nancy Naomi Carlson reviewed "From Language to Language: The Hospitality of Translation," written by Senegalese philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne and translated from the French by Dylan Temel, for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Michael O’Donnell reviewed two books about fine carpets and their history for The Wall Street Journal:

NBCC member Michael Bobelian reviewed Jill Lepore’s "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" for The Washington Post:

NBCC member John Skoyles reviewed Nathan Kernan’s "A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler" and Ron Padgett’s "Dick: A Memoir of Dick Gallup" for Commonweal:

NBCC board member May-lee Chai reviewed Arundhati Roy's new memoir, "Mother Mary Comes to Me," for The Minnesota Star Tribune:

NBCC member Martha Anne Toll interviewed author and artist Deborah English for the Baltimore Fishbowl:

NBCC member Jay Rogoff has been selected for the position of Poet Laureate of the city of Saratoga Springs, New York, for the years 2026 and 2027!

NBCC member Martha Anne Toll has an essay titled "America's Future in Dead Pianos?" in the new "America's Future Anthology," edited by Caroline Bock and Jona Colson:

NBCC member Heller McAlpin reviewed Stephen Greenblatt’s "Dark Renaissance" for The Christian Science Monitor:

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed "Bedbugs," written by Martina Vidaić and translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać, for the Los Angeles Review of Books:

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Sarah Strohmeyer’s "A Mother Always Knows" for BookTrib:

NBCC member Rhoda Feng reviewed "Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue," written by Yoko Tawada and translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, for Foreign Policy:

NBCC’s Vice President/Barrios Prize and Co-Vice President/Membership interviewed Harryette Mullen about "Regaining Unconsciousness" for The Brooklyn Rail:

NBCC member Tamara MC’s essay “The Night Sinéad O'Connor Found Me in a Convertible” was published in Nuts and Bolts from Sonya:

Save the date! On Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern, please join us on Zoom for "Criticism 101: Book Review Fundamentals," led by Heather Scott Partington, former NBCC president and current treasurer and fiction chair.

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed "Restoration," written by Ave Barrera and translated from the Spanish by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers, for Southwest Review:

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Zoe B. Wallbrook’s "History Lessons" for BookTrib:

NBCC member Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed "Greyhound" by Joanna Pocock for The Washington Post: