NBCC Co-Vice President/Events Lauren LeBlanc reviewed Hannah Lillith Assadi's "Paradiso 17" for Alta:

Former NBCC Emerging Critic Tomi Onabanjo wrote about "The Passenger Seat" by Vijay Khurana and "What We Can Know" by Ian McEwan for the Tournament of Books:

NBCC member Edna Bonhomme wrote about Namwali Serpell's "On Morrison" for The New Republic:

The NBCC is proud to announce that the winners of the Toni Morrison Achievement Award are NPR and PBS!

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about some books in translation for Words Without Borders:

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Naomi Hirahara’s "Crown City" for BookTrib:

For Southwest Review, NBCC member Cory Oldweiler wrote about Francisco Maciel’s "There’s No Point in Dying," translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato:

NBCC member Krista Timeus Cerezo reviewed "The Year of the Wind," written by Karina Pacheco Medrano and translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem, for World Literature Today:

NBCC member Randy Cepuch reviewed Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's latest novel, "Lake Effect," for the Washington Independent Review of Books:

NBCC member Leigh Haber wrote a profile of Tayari Jones for the Los Angeles Times:

Veteran critic Bill Marx continues his workshop series with the literary review nonprofit Viva la Book Review. His next session, “Writing Positive Reviews,” takes place in mid-March. Vote for the workshop date and register at

NBCC member Lori O’Dea reviewed "Daddy Issues," a story collection by Eric C. Wat, for The Gay & Lesbian Review:

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about Nicholas Mosley reckoning with his father's legacy for Literary Hub:

NBCC member Nicholas Birns reviewed Robert Reginio's "Bob Dylan Outside The Law: The Poetics of John Wesley Harding" for The Dylan Review:

For Slate, NBCC member Kristen Martin wrote a substantive critique of disgraced longevity influencer Peter Attia's mega-bestseller "Outlive":

NBCC member Stephanie Gorton reviewed "A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls" by Adam Morgan for The New Republic:

NBCC member Charles Green reviewed Steven Reigns' "Outliving Michael" for The Gay & Lesbian Review:

NBCC member Nicole Schrag wrote about the messy process of picking forthcoming books to review for her Substack newsletter, For Love or Money:

NBCC member Costa Beavin Pappas wrote a profile of Christina Kovac, author of "Watch Us Fall," for the Washington City Paper:

Minnesota writer Marie Zhuikov's interview with NBCC lifetime member Anthony Bukoski appeared in Hypertext magazine. Bukoski discussed his short story collection "The Thief of Words," recently published by the University of Wisconsin Press:

NBCC member George Yatchisin reviewed John Darnielle's "This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days" for the California Review of Books:

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll reviewed Cullen Bunn's "Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World" for Reactor:

NBCC member Allison Adelle Hedge Coke curated five episodes of Poets on the Plains for NPR’s affiliate on the High Plains, HPPR:

NBCC member Ryan Chapman wrote about the finalists for the 2025 Booker Prize for The Sewanee Review:

NBCC member Ellen Prentiss Campbell wrote about the 3 R's of reading, writing, and reviewing for the Washington Independent Review of Books:

For The Gay & Lesbian Review, NBCC member Michael Quinn reviewed "E Is for Edward," Gregory Hischak’s centennial celebration of artist Edward Gorey:

NBCC member Morgan Leigh Davies interviewed Rebecca Novack about her novel "Murder Bimbo" for Jezebel:

NBCC member Eric Olson profiled Evelyn Iritani and her new book," Safe Passage," about a Japan-America prisoner swap during World War II, for Seattle Met magazine:

NBCC member Hollay Ghadery’s fourth book and debut novel, "The Unravelling of Ou," was recently reviewed in The New Quarterly by Allison Snelgrove:

NBCC member Adam M. Rosen reviewed Chelsea Sutton’s "Krackle's Last Movie" for Heavy Feather Review:

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll reviewed Aoife Josephine Clements' Persona for Vol. 1 Brooklyn:

NBCC member Costa Beavin Pappas wrote about how Indigenous communities are utilizing AI for language preservation for PRISM:

NBCC member Anne Charles reviewed "Terry Dactyl" by Matilda Bernstein Sycamore for The Gay & Lesbian Review:

NBCC member Caroline Tracey reviewed Álvaro Enrigue's "Now I Surrender" for The Border Chronicle:

In his column Biblioscopy for MedHum.org, Tony Miksanek reviewed "Field Guide to Falling Ill by Jonathan Gleason," the short story "An Eye in the Throat" by Samanta Schweblin, and A Prescription for "Burnout" by Carolyn Roy-Bornstein:

NBCC member Allison Adelle Hedge Coke interviewed U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze for World Literature Today:

NBCC Vice President/Technology and Co-Vice President/Membership Rebecca Hussey, NBCC member Frances Evangelista, and Dorian Stuber, hosts of the One Bright Book podcast, contributed a conversational afterword to a new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's "A Marsh Island":

NBCC member Hollay Ghadery’s fourth book and debut novel, "The Unravelling of Ou," was recently reviewed in The Miramichi Reader by Lucy E.M. Black:

NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Michelle Chan Schmidt reviewed Dorothy Tse's latest novella, "City Like Water," translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce, for Words Without Borders:

NBCC member Michael Bobelian reviewed two books for The Washington Post:

NBCC member Sarah McCraw Crow reviewed Bsrat Mezghebe's "I Hope You Find What You're Looking For" for BookPage: buff.ly/N5jmJHd

NBCC member Bill Thompson reviewed "Thirty-Two Words for Field" by Manchan Magan for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier:

NBCC member Tony Miksanek's review of "Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds" by Scott Solomon was Booklist's featured "Review of the Day" for February 26:

NBCC member Diane Scharper reviewed "The Undead" by Svetlana Satchkova for National Review:

NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Karen Chalamilla interviewed writer, critic and academic Dr. Ainehi Edoro about her recently published book "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think," which is about forest representations in African fiction, for Africa Is a Country:

NBCC member Eric Olson had a craft-centric discussion with Lauren Groff for Literary Hub:

NBCC member McKenzie Watson-Fore has a reading list at Electric Literature called "8 Books Featuring Cathartic Bathhouse Scenes": electricliterature.com/8-books-feat...

NBCC member Sarah McCraw Crow reviewed Grant Ginder's "So Old, So Young; Belle Burden's Strangers" for BookPage:

NBCC member Clea Simon wrote about the “Which Side” concert/teach-out series based on James Sullivan’s 2019 book, "Which Side Are You On?: 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs," for The Arts Fuse:

NBCC member Ryan Teitman reviewed Beth Ann Fennelly’s "The Irish Goodbye" for the Chicago Review of Books: