National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex RossThe scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences....Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistColtrane: The Story of a SoundBen RatliffAmazonOnce Upon a QuniceaneraJulia AlvarezAmazonThe Terror DreamSusan FaludiAmazonTwenty-Eight Artists and Two SaintsJoan AcocellaAmazon

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerMaking WavesMario Vargas LlosaSpanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin America...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistGod and the American WriterAlfred KazinAmazonThe Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen VendlerAmazonThe End of the Novel of LoveVivian GornickAmazonThe Pleasures of the ImaginationJohn BrewerAmazon

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerNotes From No Man’s Land: American EssaysEula BissWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Acclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man’s Land begins...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistClose Calls with Nonsense: Reading New PoetryStephen BurtAmazonDancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great DepressionMorris DicksteinAmazonHeroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and CultureDavid HajduAmazonPerfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded MusicGreg MilnerAmazon

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerOtherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and ReviewsGeoff Dyer*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistIs That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of EverythingDavid BellosAmazonKaraoke CultureDubravka UgresicAmazonOut of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock MusicEllen WillisAmazonThe Ecstasy of InfluenceJonathan LethemAmazon

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerStranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsMarina WarnerOur foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exotici...Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistRack, and HoneyMary Ruefle MadnessAmazonReinventing BachPaul ElieAmazonThe Grey Album: On the Blackness of BlacknessKevin YoungAmazonWaiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop CultureDaniel MendelsohnAmazon

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerDistant ReadingFranco MorettiIn ten essays, presents the author's philosophy of "distant reading" and challenges deep-rooted beliefs about world cultures and art, while applying economic and network theories to literature....Amazon2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistConfronting The Classics: Traditions, Adventures And InnovationsMary BeardAmazonForty-One False Starts: Essays On Artists And WritersJanet MalcolmAmazonThe Kraus Project: Essays By Karl Kraus, Translated And Annotated By Jonathan Franzen With Paul Reiter And Daniel KehlmannJonathan FranzenAmazonWhite GirlsHilton AlsAmazon

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis AronowitzEllen WillisOut of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis's daring insights went beyond popular music, ...Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistCitizen: An American LyricClaudia RankineAmazonGeek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of BeautyVikram ChandraAmazonOn Immunity: An InnoculationEula BissAmazonWhat Would Lynne Tillman Do?Lynne TillmanAmazon

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe ArgonautsMaggie NelsonWinner, 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of ‘autotheory’ offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking about desire, identity and the limitations and possibilities of love an...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistBetween the World and MeTa-Nehisi CoatesAmazonEternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William BlakeLeo DamroschAmazonOn Elizabeth BishopColm TóibínAmazonThe Nearest Thing to LifeJames WoodAmazon

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerWhite Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial DivideCarol AndersonFrom the Civil War to our combustible present, and now with a new epilogue about the 2016 presidential election, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race. White Rage chronicles the powerful forces opposed to black ...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAgainst Everything: EssaysMark GreifAmazonAm I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to LivePeter OrnerAmazonLooking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary ClassicAlice KaplanAmazonThe Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being AloneOlivia LaingAmazon