National Book Critics Circle Award Winning Books & Authors (Criticism)

2010	Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West Author: Clare Cavanagh Currently 0/5 Stars. ?
2009	Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays Author: Eula Biss, Eula Biss Currently 4.8/5 Stars. 2 The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members! Retail Price: ~~$15.00~~ Buy New: $11.79 (save 21%) or Become a PBS member and pay $7.89+1 PBS book credit (save 47%)
2008	Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter Author: Seth Lerer Currently 5/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Paperback
2007	The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Author: Alex Ross Currently 4.5/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio CD, Hardcover
2006	Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences Author: Lawrence Weschler Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover
2005	The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin Author: William Logan Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
2004	Where You're At Author: Patrick Neate Currently 3/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Paperback
2003	River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Author: Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Solnit Currently 3.8/5 Stars. 4 *Other Versions:* Hardcover The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members! Retail Price: ~~$18.00~~ Buy New: $13.29 (save 26%) or Become a PBS member and pay $9.39+1 PBS book credit (save 47%)
2002	Tests of Time : Essays Author: William H. Gass Currently 5/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Hardcover
2001	The War Against Cliche : Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage) Author: Martin Amis Currently 3.5/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members! Retail Price: ~~$19.95~~ Buy New: $14.29 (save 28%) or Become a PBS member and pay $10.39+1 PBS book credit (save 47%)
2000	Quarrel Quandary : Essays Author: Cynthia Ozick, Cynthia Ozick Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
1999	Borges: Selected Non-Fictions : volume 3 Author: Jorge Luis Borges Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members! Retail Price: ~~$23.00~~ Buy New: $15.89 (save 30%) or Become a PBS member and pay $11.99+1 PBS book credit (save 47%)
1998	Visions of Jazz: The First Century Author: Gary Giddins Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
1997	Making Waves : Essays Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Currently 4.5/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback
1996	Finding a Form: Essays Author: William H. Gass Currently 5/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Hardcover
1995	The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France Author: Robert Darnton Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover
1994	The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture Author: Gerald Early Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover
1993	Opera in America : A Cultural History Author: John Dizikes Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
1992	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Author: Garry Wills Currently 3.8/5 Stars. 10 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged)
1991	Holocaust Testimonies : The Ruins of Memory Author: Lawrence L. Langer Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover
1990	Encounters Reflections: Art in the Historical Present Author: Arthur C. Danto Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback
1989	Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History Author: John Clive Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover
1988	Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author Author: Clifford Geertz Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover
1987	Dance Writings and Poetry Author: Edwin Denby Currently 4/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Hardcover
1986	Less Than One : Selected Essays Author: Joseph Brodsky Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members! Retail Price: ~~$21.00~~ Buy New: $14.89 (save 29%) or Become a PBS member and pay $10.99+1 PBS book credit (save 47%)
1985	Habitations of the Word: Essays (Cornell Paperbacks) Author: William H. Gass Currently 5/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback
1984	Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry Author: Robert Hass Currently 4/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback
1983	Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism Author: John Updike Currently 4/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback
1982	The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal Author: Gore Vidal Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
1981	Virgil Thomson Reader Author: Virgil Thomson Currently 3.5/5 Stars. 1
1980	Part of Nature, Part of Us Author: Helen Vendler Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover
1979	The Gnostic Gospels Author: Elaine Pagels Currently 3.5/5 Stars. 41 *Other Versions:* Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio Cassette, Paperback, Paperback The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members! Retail Price: ~~$15.00~~ Buy New: $11.79 (save 21%) or Become a PBS member and pay $7.89+1 PBS book credit (save 47%)
1978	Modern Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Author: Meyer Schapiro Currently 0/5 Stars. ? *Other Versions:* Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio Cassette, Paperback, Paperback
1977	On Photography Author: Susan Sontag Currently 2.8/5 Stars. 4 *Other Versions:* Paperback, Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback
1976	The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Author: Bruno Bettelheim Currently 2.9/5 Stars. 5 *Other Versions:* Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback
1975	The Great War and Modern Memory Author: Paul Fussell Currently 4/5 Stars. 9 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio Cassette, Audio Cassette, Hardcover, Paperback

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