2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner

Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
Lawrence Weschler
From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, art historian and journalist Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther one travels (through geography, through art, thr…
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist

Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon
Daniel Dennett

Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays
Frederick Crews

On Looking: Essays
Lia Purpura
