2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner

The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
Martin Amis
Is there anything that Martin Amis can’t write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above a…
2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist

As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
Rebecca Solnit

De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong
W.D. Snodgrass

Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
Joy Williams
