Here are the winners of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Here are the winners of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards.

By Literary Hub | March 20, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Duplex</em> by Kathryn Davis

A Small Press Book We Love:
Duplex by Kathryn Davis

By Emily Temple | March 20, 2025

Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

Gabrielle Bellot on the Empty Suits Destroying the Country

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 20, 2025

On Writing the Hospital

On Writing the Hospital

Madeleine Wulfahrt Considers “Small Rain” and the Future of Post-Pandemic Literature of Illness

By Madeleine Wulfahrt | March 20, 2025

Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth

Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth

The Author of “Motherdom” Explores Brain Development, Play, and Why Restrictive Moralizing Hurts All Parents

By Alex Bollen | March 20, 2025

The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist.

The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its first shortlist.

By Brittany Allen | March 19, 2025

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A Small Press Book We Love:
Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello

By Brittany Allen | March 19, 2025

Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain

By Robert Macfarlane | March 19, 2025

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

By Literary Hub | March 19, 2025

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History

Stuart Nadler: “The work is everything, and the work is heartbreaking.”

By Stuart Nadler | March 19, 2025

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

Noliwe Rooks on the Ongoing Battle to Desegregate Schools Across America Throughout the 1960s

By Noliwe Rooks | March 19, 2025

Trump is trying to destroy libraries.

Trump is trying to destroy libraries.

By James Folta | March 18, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Children of the Ghetto</em> by Elias Khoury

A Small Press Book We Love:
Children of the Ghetto by Elias Khoury

By James Folta | March 18, 2025

A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil

A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil

“We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis.”

By Joseph Howley | March 18, 2025

On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York

On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York

For Historian Russell Shorto, It Was All About Water

By Russell Shorto | March 18, 2025

Dissolving Certainties: On Reading the Complex Story of Carbon in Our World

Dissolving Certainties: On Reading the Complex Story of Carbon in Our World

Paul Hawken Merges Science and Indigenous Wisdom on a Heating Planet

By Paul Hawken | March 18, 2025

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