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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating mehr anzeigen with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Alle, Winner (276), Finalist (1,264)
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Alle, Criticism (235)
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Alle, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (5), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (6), 1996 (5), 1995 (5), 1994 (5), 1993 (5), 1992 (5), 1991 (5), 1990 (5), 1989 (6), 1988 (4), 1987 (6), 1986 (4), 1985 (5), 1984 (5), 1983 (5), 1982 (4), 1981 (4), 1980 (5), 1979 (5), 1978 (5), 1977 (1), 1976 (4), 1975 (1)
Angekündigt:
März 21: Gewinner2023 Zuletzt
Januar 25: Finalist2023 Zuletzt

Finalist 235

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Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression von Tina Post2023
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century von Nicholas Dames2023
Creep: Accusations and Confessions von Myriam Gurba2023
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World von Naomi Klein2023
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques von Grace Elisabeth Lavery2023
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age von Timothy Bewes2022
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us von Rachel Aviv2022
Seduced by Story von Peter Brooks2022
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir von Margo Jefferson2022
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold von Alia Trabucco Zerán2022
Girlhood von Melissa Febos2021
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays von Jenny Diski2021
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays von Jesse McCarthy2021
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon von Mark McGurl2021
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century von Amia Srinivasan2021
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration von Nicole R. Fleetwood2020
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader von Vivian Gornick2020
Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country von Cristina Rivera-Garza2020
Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) von Namwali Serpell2020
Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America von Wendy A. Woloson2020
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals von Saidiya Hartman2019
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest von Hanif Abdurraqib2019
Essays One von Lydia Davis2019
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 von Peter Schjeldahl2019
Axiomatic von Maria Tumarkin2019
Feel Free: Essays von Zadie Smith2018
Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 von Robert Christgau2018
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics von Stephen Greenblatt2018
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight von Terrance Hayes2018
The Reckonings: Essays von Lacy M. Johnson2018
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages von Carina Chocano2017
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story von Edwidge Danticat2017
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History von Camille T. Dungy2017
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions von Valeria Luiselli2017
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News von Kevin Young2017
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide von Carol Anderson2016
Against Everything: Essays von Mark Greif2016
Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic von Alice Kaplan2016
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone von Olivia Laing2016
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live von Peter Orner2016
Die Argonauten von Maggie Nelson2015
Between the World and Me von Ta-Nehisi Coates2015
Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake von Leo Damrosch2015
On Elizabeth Bishop von Colm Tóibín2015
The nearest thing to life von James Wood2015
The Essential Ellen Willis von Ellen Willis2014
On Immunity: An Inoculation von Eula Biss2014
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty von Vikram Chandra2014
Citizen: An American Lyric von Claudia Rankine2014
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? von Lynne Tillman2014
Distant Reading von Franco Moretti2013
White Girls von Hilton Als2013
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations von Mary Beard2013
The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus (German Edition) von Jonathan Franzen2013
Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers von Janet Malcolm2013
Stranger Magic: charmed states and The Arabian Nights von Marina Warner2012
Reinventing Bach von Paul Elie2012
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture (New York Review Collections) von Daniel Mendelsohn2012
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures von Mary Ruefle2012
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness von Kevin Young2012
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews von Geoff Dyer2011
Was macht der Fisch in meinem Ohr?: Sprache, Übersetzen und die Bedeutung von allem von David Bellos2011
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. von Jonathan Lethem2011
Karaokekultur von Dubravka Ugrešić2011
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music von Ellen Willis2011
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West von Clare Cavanagh2010
Die Besessenen von Elif Batuman2010
The Professor and Other Writings von Terry Castle2010
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence von Susie Linfield2010
Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir von Ander Monson2010
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays von Eula Biss2009
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry von Stephen Burt2009
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression von Morris Dickstein2009
Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture von David Hajdu2009
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music von Greg Milner2009
Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter von Seth Lerer2008
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard von Richard Brody2008
The Men in My Life von Vivian Gornick2008
Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds von Joel L. Kraemer2008
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry von Reginald Shepherd2008
The Rest is Noise: Das 20. Jahrhundert hören von Alex Ross2007
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays von Joan Acocella2007
Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA von Julia Alvarez2007
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America von Susan Faludi2007
Coltrane : Siegeszug eines Sounds von Ben Ratliff2007
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences von Lawrence Weschler2006
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within von Bruce Bawer2006
Follies of the Wise von Frederick Crews2006
Den Bann brechen: Religion als natürliches Phänomen von Daniel C. Dennett2006
On Looking: Essays von Lia Purpura2006
The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin von William Logan2005
Gather At The River: Notes From The Post-millennial South von Hal Crowther2005
Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life von Arthur C. Danto2005
Still Looking: Essays on American Art von John Updike2005
What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles von Eliot Weinberger2005
Where You're At von Patrick Neate2004
Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003 von Richard Howard2004
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century von Graham Robb2004
Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me von Craig Seligman2004
The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel von James Wood2004
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West von Rebecca Solnit2003
Gritos: Essays von Dagoberto Gilb2003
31 Songs von Nick Hornby2003
Michelangelo und die Fresken des Papstes von Ross King2003
Das Leiden anderer betrachten von Susan Sontag2003
Tests of Time von William H. Gass2002
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color von Philip Ball2002
Old Man Goya von Julia Blackburn2002
Reviewery von Christopher Ricks2002
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist von Charles Rosen2002
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 von Martin Amis2001
Marginalia von H.J. Jackson2001
De/Compositions von W. D. Snodgrass2001
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art von Rebecca Solnit2001
Ill Nature von Joy Williams2001
Quarrel & Quandary: Essays von Cynthia Ozick2000
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life von Jacques Barzun2000
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World von Claudia Roth Pierpont2000
Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New von Charles Rosen2000
A Poetry of Two Minds (The Life of Poetry) von Sherod Santos2000
Selected Non-Fictions von Jorge Luis Borges1999
Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order von Stuart Klawans1999
Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry von William Logan1999
Lives of the Poets von Michael Schmidt1999
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season von David Shields1999
Visions of Jazz: The First Century von Gary Giddins1998
Shakespeare: Die Erfindung des Menschlichen von Harold Bloom1998
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence von Geoff Dyer1998
XXX. Drei Jahrzehnte Hip- Hop. von Nelson George1998
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide von Robert Pinsky1998
Making Waves: Essays von Mario Vargas Llosa1997
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets von Helen Vendler1997
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century von John Brewer1997
The End of the Novel of Love von Vivian Gornick1997
God and the American Writer von Alfred Kazin1997
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets von Helen Vendler1997
Finding a Form: Essays von William H. Gass1996
Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990 (Stages) von Gene H. Bell-Villada1996
The True Story of the Novel von Margaret Anne Doody1996
Die Liebesaffäre als Kunstwerk von Dan Hofstadter1996
Fame & Folly: Essays von Cynthia Ozick1996
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France von Robert Darnton1995
The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994 von Stanley Crouch1995
The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters von Thomas M. Disch1995
Paul Celan. Eine Biographie von John Felstiner1995
After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist von Clifford Geertz1995
The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture von Gerald Early1994
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages von Harold Bloom1994
Anzug und Eros. Eine Geschichte der modernen Kleidung von Anne Hollander1994
Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism von Katha Pollitt1994
Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney von Jahan Ramazani1994
Opera in America: A Cultural History von John Dizikes1993
Königin der Nacht. Oper, Homosexualität und Begehren von Wayne Koestenbaum1993
The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century von Geoffrey O'Brien1993
Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright von Mark Rose1993
United States: Essays 1952-1992 von Gore Vidal1993
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America von Garry Wills1992
The Critics Bear it Away: American Fiction and the Academy von Frederick Crews1992
Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture von Dana Gioia1992
A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War von Susan Griffin1992
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West von Wallace Stegner1992
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory von Lawrence L. Langer1991
Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century von Norman Cantor1991
Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media (Culture and the Moving Image Series) von J. Hoberman1991
Weibliche Perversionen : von befleckter Unschuld und verweigerter Unterwerfung von Louise J. Kaplan1991
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism von John Updike1991
Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present von Arthur C. Danto1990
Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 von Stanley Crouch1990
Selected Writings: 1950-1990 von Irving Howe1990
Die Masken der Sexualität von Camille Paglia1990
Essays In Disguise von Wilfrid Sheed1990
Not By Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History von John Clive1989
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author von Clifford Geertz1989
A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost von David Bromwich1989
Metaphor & memory : essays von Cynthia Ozick1989
Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation von Charles Solomon1989
America's Rome, Volume 1: Classical Rome von William L. Vance1989
The Death of Rhythm and Blues von Nelson George1988
Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language von John Hollander1988
Poetry And The World von Robert Pinsky1988
Law and Literature von Richard A. Posner1988
Less Than One: Selected Essays von Joseph Brodsky1987
Dance Writings von Edwin Denby1987
Sight Lines von Arlene Croce1987
Every Force Evolves a Form von Guy Davenport1987
Understanding Toscanini von Joseph Horowitz1987
The Collected Prose von Robert Lowell1987
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History von Leo Braudy1986
The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art von Arthur C. Danto1986
Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 von Jerrold Seigel1986
English Criticism, 1900-1950 von René Wellek1986
Mit sich selber reden, für sich selber reden. Essays von William H. Gass1985
Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel von Philip Fisher1985
Occasional Prose: Essays von Mary McCarthy1985
Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss von Paul A. Robinson1985
Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime von Robert F. Storey1985
20th Century Pleasures von Robert Hass1984
Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic von David Bromwich1984
The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature and the Arts von Roger Shattuck1984
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion von Leo Steinberg1984
1984
Amerikaner und andere Menschen. von John Updike1983
Kunst als Beschreibung : holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Vorw. v. Wolfgang Kemp von Svetlana Alpers1983
Art and Ardor von Cynthia Ozick1983
All American Music von John Rockwell1983
The Odes of John Keats (Belknap Press) von Helen Vendler1983
Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982 von Gore Vidal1982
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity von Marshall Berman1982
Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism von Harold Bloom1982
Going to The Dance von Arlene Croce1982
Virgil Thomson Reader von Virgil Thomson1981
Boccaccio von Thomas G. Bergin1981
The Geography of the Imagination von Guy Davenport1981
Early Auden von Edward Mendelson1981
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets von Helen Vendler1980
Henry Adams von R. P. Blackmur1980
Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars von Paul Fussell1980
Die Kunst des Lesens : Meisterwerke der europäischen Literatur von Vladimir Nabokov1980
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 von Barbara Novak1980
The Gnostic Gospels von Elaine Pagels1979
Stendhal. Eine Biographie. von Robert Alter1979
America Revised von Frances FitzGerald1979
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination von Sandra M. Gilbert1979
Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet von Richard Gilman1979
Modern Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries von Meyer Schapiro1978
And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978 von Malcolm Cowley1978
The World Within the Word: Essays von William H. Gass1978
Orientalismus von Edward W. Said1978
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews von Eudora Welty1978
Über Fotografie von Susan Sontag1977
Kinder brauchen Märchen von Bruno Bettelheim1976
Kicked a building lately? von Ada Louise Huxtable1976
Representations: Essays on literature and society von Steven Marcus1976
Theory Of Harmony von Arnold Shoenberg1976
The Great War and Modern Memory von Paul Fussell1975

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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Finalists

(English, Von Mitgliedern verfasst)
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Winners

(English, Von Mitgliedern verfasst)

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