Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Poetry

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Biography

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Autobiography

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Criticism

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

Stay tuned… Our highly anticipated longlists are coming out next week!

Stay tuned… Our highly anticipated longlists are coming out next week!

Every voting member of the NBCC can nominate two first books for consideration for the John Leonard Prize! Come to our virtual meetup on Tuesday, December 9th at 7:30PM ET on Zoom to discuss your favorite debuts and hear from other members. The link is available in your most recent member email.

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler wrote about the third part of "On the Calculation of Volume," written by Solvej Balle and translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell, for the Los Angeles Review of Books:

NBCC member Mike Good has two book reviews in the latest issue of Foreword Reviews, including one of "One, None, and a Hundred Grand," written by Luigi Pirandello and translated from the Italian by Sean Wilsey:

NBCC member Rebecca Ruth Gould reviewed "A Spring That Did Not Blossom: Palestinian Short Stories," written by Nejmeh Khalil Habib and translated from the Arabic by Samar Habib, for The Markaz Review:

NBCC member Mike Good interviewed Varun Ravindran for The Adroit Journal blog about Ravindran's debut poetry collection, "Betweenness":

NBCC member Brian Tanguay reviewed "Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation" by Marla A. Ramirez for the California Review of Books:

NBCC member Chris Barsanti reviewed W. David Marx's "Blank Space: A Cultural History of the 21st Century" for The Minnesota Star Tribune:

NBCC member DW McKinney spoke with independent publishers about how they're supporting marginalized authors and their work in our current political climate for Publishers Weekly:

NBCC member Jack Rockwell wrote about "On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)," written by Solvej Balle and translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell, for Words Without Borders:

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed James R. Benn’s "A Bitter Wind" for BookTrib:

NBCC member Elaine Szewczyk profiled Julian Barnes for Publishers Weekly:

Former NBCC President Laurie Hertzel reviewed Brian Buckbee's "We Should All Be Birds" for The Washington Post:

NBCC member Craig Teicher wrote about three new books of poetry for NPR:

NBCC member Britta Stromeyer reviewed "Coming. Apart.," written by Edy Poppy and translated from the Norwegian by May-Brit Akerholt, for Tupelo Quarterly:

NBCC member Marcie Geffner reviewed Ayana Gray's novel "I, Medusa" for her Substack, Mostly Books:

NBCC member Chris Barsanti reviewed several books for The Minnesota Star Tribune:

NBCC Vice President/Online Michael Schaub interviewed Elaine Hsieh Chou for The Orange County Register:

Former NBCC President Laurie Hertzel reviewed Susan Orlean's "Joyride" for The Boston Globe:

NBCC member Susan Bernofsky reviewed Morten Høi Jensen’s "The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain" for The Nation:

NBCC member Ricardo Santiago Soto reviewed Charlotte Shane's "An Honest Woman" for Raevue:

NBCC member Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed Damion Searls’ "Analog Days" for Shelf Awareness: buff.ly/i8NUi9u

Former NBCC President Tom Beer interviewed Stephen Greenblatt about his new book, "Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival," for Kirkus Reviews:

NBCC member Jake Cline reviewed Joy Williams’ "The Pelican Child" for The Washington Post:

NBCC member Marcie Geffner reviewed Maria Dahvana Headley's "Beowulf: A New Translation" for her Substack, Six Forty-Five:

NBCC member Brian Tanguay reviewed "The World After Gaza: A History" by Pankaj Mishra for the California Review of Books:

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about Delaney Nolan's "Happy Bad" for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Michael Quinn reviewed "The Director," written by Daniel Kehlmann and translated from the German by Ross Benjamin, for The Village Star-Revue:

NBCC member Nell Beram reviewed "Love Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan's Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend" by Mark Malkoff:

NBCC member Bill Marx is the president of the nonprofit Viva la Book Review, a new and innovative organization dedicated to growing and publicizing the publication of book reviews in local media across America:

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed Joy Williams’ "The Pelican Child" for The Minnesota Star Tribune:

NBCC member Noelle McManus wrote about Ada Limón’s "Startlement" for Alta:

For the Duluth News Tribune, NBCC member Jay Gabler reviewed Chris Kraus' "The Four Spent the Day Together"—a novel with a title taken from the pages of that very newspaper:

NBCC member Sullivan Summer interviewed diplomatic historian Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson about his book, "Entangled Alliances," for the New Books Network:

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll reviewed Jason Brown's memoir "Character Witness" for the Portland Press Herald:

NBCC member Christopher Kempf reviewed Juliana Spahr's poetry collection "Ars Poeticas" for the online reviews magazine Preposition:

NBCC member Nell Beram reviewed "Ferment: Simple Recipes from My Multicultural Kitchen" by Kenji Morimoto:

NBCC member Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed Mori Yoshida’s cookbook "Gateaux: Sweets" for Shelf Awareness:

We are incredibly grateful to be one of Poetry Foundation’s 2025 grantee-partners as the recipient of a general operating support grant!

NBCC member Robert Rubsam reviewed "Things That Disappear," written by Jenny Erpenbeck and translated from the German by Kurt Beals, for The Baffler:

NBCC board member Rebecca Morgan Frank highlighted seven new poetry books in her November Literary Hub column:

NBCC member Costa Beavin Pappas wrote about how indie bookstores are blending activism and literature for community care for Prism: