These were the novels nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Click on the links to read my entertaining but always insightful reviews. Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press) Marlon James, A Brief...
Read MoreWhat’s It About Set for the most part in 1930s New Guinea, American anthropologist Nell Stone and her Australian husband Fen meet Andrew Bankson, an English anthropologist, who introduces them to the Tam, an artistic, spiritual...
Read MoreThe National Book Critics Circle have announced this year finalists ranging from criticism, to poetry, to biography to fiction. I’m only interested in the fiction category so here are the five nominees. Rabih Alameddine,...
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