National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerYou Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed MessagesCarina ChocanoWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY "If Hollywood's treatment of women leaves you wanting, you'll find good, heady company in You Play the Girl."—ELLE A...Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistGuidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and HistoryCamille T. DungyAmazonTell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty QuestionsValeria LuiselliAmazonThe Art of Death: Writing the Final StoryEdwidge DanticatAmazonThe Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake NewsKevin Yo...

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerFeel Free: EssaysZadie SmithWinner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel a...Amazon2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistIs It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017Robert ChristgauAmazonThe Reckonings: EssaysLacy M. JohnsonAmazonTo Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge KnightTerrance HayesAmazonTyrant: Shakespeare on PoliticsStephen GreenblattAmazon

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerLess Than One: Selected EssaysJoseph BrodskyGenius . . . bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography' Seamus Heaney Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays ...Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: Vols. 5 & 6René WellekAmazonBohemian Paris: Culture, Politics and Boundaries of Bourgeois LifeJerrold SiegelAmazonThe Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its HistoryLeo BraudyAmazonThe Philosophical Disenfranchisement of ArtArthur DantoAmazon

1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy TalesBruno BettelheimWinner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award "A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales."—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the tw...Amazon1976 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistArnold SchoenbergCharles RosenAmazoned. by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, Letters of E.B. WhiteE.B. WhiteAmazonKicked a Building Lately?Ada Louise HuxtableAmazonRepresentations: Essays on Literature and SocietySteven MarcusAmazon

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerOn PhotographySusan SontagWinner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as " a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs...Amazon1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAfterimagesArlene CroceAmazonGates of Eden: American Culture in the SixtiesMorris DicksteinAmazonMatters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays, 1973-1976Gore VidalAmazonRobert Frost: The Work of KnowingRichard PoirierAmazon

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerModern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries, Selected PapersMeyer SchapiroTraces the evolution from cultured artists who added literary and historical elements to their paintings to the painters who relied on sensibility alone, with a discussion of the social meaning of abstract art...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAnd I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978Malcolm CowleyAmazonOrientalismEdward W. SaidAmazonThe Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and ReviewsEudora WeltyAmazonThe World Within the Word: EssaysWilliam H. GassAmazon

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Gnostic GospelsElaine PagelsAs discussed in The Da Vinci Code... Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus. In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in an...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of StendhalRobert Alter with Carol CosmanAmazonAmerica Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth CenturyFrances FitzGeraldAmazonDecadence: The Strange Life of an EpithetRichard GilmanAmazonThe Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary ImaginationSandra M. Gilbert & Susan GubarAmazon

1980 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerPart of Nature: Modern American PoetsHelen VendlerAppraises such creators and masters of the modern poetic idiom as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Marianne Moore, assesses poets whose major works appeared after the mid century, and considers the new generation of poets...Amazon1980 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAbroad: British Literary Traveling Between the WarsPaul FussellAmazonLectures on LiteratureVladimir NabokovAmazoned. by Veronica A. Makowsky, Henry AdamsR.P. BlackmurAmazonNature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875Barbara NovakAmazon

1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerA Virgil Thomson ReaderVirgil Thomson...Amazon1981 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistBoccaccioThomas G. BerginAmazonEarly AudenEdward MendelsonAmazonScience: Good, Bad and BogusMartin GardnerAmazonThe Geography of the Imagination: Forty EssaysGuy DavenportAmazon

1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-82Gore Vidal...Amazon1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAgon: Towards a Theory of RevisionismHarold BloomAmazonAll That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of ModernityMarshall BermanAmazonGoing to the DanceArlene CroceAmazonWoman and the DemonNina AuerbachAmazon