After thanking everyone for taking time during a summery October afternoon to think about genocide, Samantha Power, 2003 Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle nonfiction awardee for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and...

On October 4, former NBCC finalist Edwidge Danticat testified before the U.S. Congress' Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law. It is our privilege to publish the text of this powerful testimony -- which is the basis of her new memoir, Brother, I'm Dying...

Nobelist and NBCC finalist Orhan Pamuk (hometown Istanbul) and Sir Salman Rushdie (hometown Bombay) took to the stage of the Highline Ballroom, where Queen Latifah will appear later this month, for a relaxed meandering conversation Friday night, nudged along by Deborah Triesman, The New Yorker's fiction editor.

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During her appearance on the NBCC's panel "Grub Street 2.0" on Friday, (thanks Emily), Emily Lazar, producer of The Colbert Report, made it clear that Stephen Colbert needs books, but he doesn't really read them. That's her job.

"Stephen doesn't read books. [His character doesn't read books.] Most of...

The aftermath of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans on August 29, 2005, is far from over, and its legacy includes a considerable quantity of post-Katrina literature.

The first post-K books were chronicles: elegies, eulogies and accusations. Infuriated by House of Representatives speaker Tom Hastert's assertion that spending federal...

It's hard to judge how many writers have been displaced, dislocated and disoriented by Katrina and aftermath. James Lee Burke, whose Dave Robicheaux novels are set in New Iberia in southwest Louisiana and in New Orleans, is one of the first to write fiction set in this new universe....

This is the ninth in our occasional series about New Orleans writers. It's hard to judge how many writers have been displaced, dislocated and disoriented by Katrina and aftermath. A New Orleans native, Jason Berry went to Jesuit High School and Georgetown University. His first...

The National Book Critics Circle has launched a Campaign to Save Book Reviewing. This post is part of the campaign's blog series, which features posts by concerned writers, op-eds, Q and As, and tips about how you can get involved to make sure that owners and editors know...