1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

Finding a Form

William Gass

“Gass’s commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein . . . the avant garde . . . the demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize Commi…

Art for Art’s Sake and Literary Life

Gene H. Bell-Villada

Fame and Folly

Cynthia Ozick

The Love Affair as a Work of Art

Dan Hofstadter

The True Story of the Novel

Margaret Anne Doody