1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner

Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
Clifford Geertz
The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categoriesthis is magic, that is technologyhas long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of wri…
1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist

Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation
Richard A. Posner

Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language
John Hollander

Poetry and the World
Robert Pinsky
