National Book Critics Circle

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

Book review of So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder In Grant Ginder’s often funny So Old, So Young, five friends try to sort out whether they’re the same as they once were.

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

Review: Naturalism of Gaelic language explored in Manchán Magan’s ode to Ireland With a scholar’s rigor and an enthusiast’s flair, Manchán Magan explores “the enchantment, sublime beauty, and sheer oddness” of Old Irish language.

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:

Zombie Leninism | National Review Authoritarianism and absurdity in (fictional) Moscow.

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

The roots of our storytelling What happens when we stop reading African fiction through European literary history and instead trace its worldmaking through indigenous cosmology?

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:

“You Just Do Language.” Lauren Groff on Craft, Reading, and Her New Collection For fiction authors of a certain stripe, a 2023 New York Times profile of the author Lauren Groff landed like an apple on the head. For others, it spilled like piping hot coffee across the laptop. …

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

8 Books Featuring Cathartic Bathhouse Scenes - Electric Literature The communal intimacy of a Korean spa offers a radical departure from the body-fearing purity culture of my youth

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

Book review of So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder In Grant Ginder’s often funny So Old, So Young, five friends try to sort out whether they’re the same as they once were.

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

Music Feature: "Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-out" - How Music Meets the Moment - The Arts Fuse The eighth iteration of “Which Side?” was a wild success, mixing musical genres from reggae to old-school Boston punk and punctuated by two moving (and brief) speakers.

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:

Going Short and Long in "The Irish Goodbye" - Chicago Review of Books Our review of Beth Ann Fennelly's new book, "The Irish Goodbye."

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

To Attend a Litfest, Kill Your Ambition First In the economy of literature festivals, literary merit is often optional. You just have to put up a good show.

NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Diya Isha wrote about the careerist spectacle that is the literature festival for The Swaddle:

Lauren Groff’s latest is a story collection that packs a punch - The Boston Globe “Brawler, her new book, is an aptly titled collection that wallops its reader with ferocious honesty and searing emotional force even as it demonstrates artistic delicacy, intellectual subtlety, and...

NBCC member Priscilla Gilman reviewed "Brawler" by Lauren Groff for The Boston Globe:

Making World Literature Out of Private Lives | Kirkus Reviews For award-winning Indian writer Geetanjali Shree, writing about ordinary people is an act of resistance—and hope.

NBCC member Natalia Holtzman interviewed the International Booker Prize-winning Geetanjali Shree for Kirkus Reviews:

Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi) - New Books Network Also Hosted By Sullivan Summer

NBCC member Sullivan Summer interviewed scholar of feminist rhetorical theory Rev. Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, Ph.D., about her book "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisolm, Carol Mosely-Braun, and Kamala Harris" for the New Books Network:

Guess What? I Love You - BlueInk Review Guess What? I Love You is a heartfelt, poignant memoir of a gay man’s all-too-brief but passionate relationship with the love of his life. Mike Maimone, a musician and songwriter, meets public relations...

NBCC member Charles Green reviewed Mike Maimone's "Guess What? I Love You" for Blueink Review:

Lighting Isakov: Illuminating the music of Gregory Alan Isakov and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra - Motif As the house lights dimmed on a nearly sold-out crowd of 3,000 at the Providence Performing Arts Center on January 29, the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, silhouetted in silence on […]

NBCC member Sean Carlson reviewed the lighting design behind Gregory Alan Isakov's recent concert with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra at the Providence Performing Arts Center for Rhode Island's alternative monthly Motif magazine:

North Carolina Literary Review – East Carolina University The North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR), produced at East Carolina University, publishes interviews and literary criticism about North Carolina writers and high-quality poetry, fiction, drama, and…

NBCC member Joan Gelfand reviewed Sheila Smith McKoy’s "The Bones Beneath" for North Carolina Literary Review:

"Talking with that accent made us sound like we wanted to beat someone up." On meeting Eileen Myles and reading CHELSEA GIRLS for the first time

NBCC member Linda Norton wrote about meeting Eileen Myles and reading "Chelsea Girls" for the first time for The Ruins:

Emerald Fennell's Poor Rich People In Emerald Fennell's films, decadence is chic among the well-off but a repulsive corruption for everyone else. No wonder it’s all just vibes.

NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Diya Isha wrote about Emerald Fennell and the way her films obscure popular imaginings of excess, and why she thinks that ultimately makes for bad films, for The Swaddle:

What Vallejo Do You Want? | Los Angeles Review of Books Dean Rader considers César Vallejo’s ‘The Eternal Dice: Selected Poems,’ recently translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

NBCC member Dean Rader reviewed "The Eternal Dice: Selected Poems of César Vallejo," translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, for the Los Angeles Review of Books:

NBCC member Sarah McCraw Crow interviewed author Deepa Anappara about her new historical novel "The Last of Earth" for BookPage:

Ali Smith’s Fighting Words The author’s new novel is set in a harsh near-future England where storytelling is required for survival.

NBCC member @elaineszewczyk.bsky.social profiled Ali Smith for Publishers Weekly:

Father Knows Best Daniel Berrigan’s spiritual radicalism – Charlotte Shane

NBCC member Charlotte Shane wrote about the work of Daniel Berrigan for Bookforum:

A Wickedly Smart Page-Turner About the Price of Literary Fame BookTrib. Murder Your Darlings by the accomplished and versatile Jenna Blum is one of those all too rare novels that might transform a non-reader into a committed bibliophile.

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Jenna Blum’s "Murder Your Darlings" for BookTrib:

More Questions than Answers in Christopher Beha’s “Why I Am not an Atheist”  I don’t know why, as a secular Jew, I am fascinated with crises of faith, and with Catholicism in particular, but the topic is a lifelong preoccupation. In this light, I was eager to dive into Chri…

NBCC member Martha Anne Toll reviewed Christopher Beha’s "Why I Am Not an Atheist" for Vol. 1 Brooklyn:

NBCC member Margot Mifflin reviewed Matt Lodder’s "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" for Winterthur Portfolio:

NBCC member Hope Reese wrote about five books for setting better boundaries for The New York Times:

Blurring the Borders in Fiction: On Mapping and Naming, Unmapping and Unnaming A novelist explores the decision to name real places in fiction, the way maps circumscribe those places, how locales heavily defined by tourism are susceptible to those projections, and what it means…

NBCC member Natalie Bakopoulos wrote an essay about the choice to name, or not name, real places in fictional worlds for Poets & Writers:

A home purchase goes wrong in Seattle author’s latest novel Kim Fu, winner of the 2023 Washington State Book Award for fiction, spoke with The Seattle Times ahead of the release of "The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts."

NBCC member Eric Olson interviewed Kim Fu for The Seattle Times: