National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2007

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Winner

Alex Ross

Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints

Joan Acocella

Once Upon a Quniceanera

Julia Alvarez

The Terror Dream

Susan Faludi

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

Ben Ratliff

2006

Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences Winner

Lawrence Weschler

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within

Bruce Bawer

Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays

Frederick Crews

Breaking the Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon

Daniel Dennett

On Looking: Essays

Lia Purpura

2005

The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin Winner

William Logan

Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-millennial South

Hal Crowther

Unnatural Wonders

Arthur Danto

Still Looking: Essays on American Art

John Updike

What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles

Eliot Weinberger

• 2004 Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet Patrick Neate
• 2003 River of Shadows Rebecca Solnit
• 2002 Tests of time William H. Gass
• 2001 The War against cliche Martin Amis
• 2000Quarrel and quandary Cynthia Ozick
• 1999 Selected Non-fictions Jorge Luis Borges
• 1998 Visions of jazz Gary Giddins
• 1997 Making waves Mario Vargas Llosa
• 1996 Finding a form William Gass
• 1995 The Forbidden best-sellers of pre-Revolutionary France Robert Darnton
• 1994 The Culture of bruising: Essays on prizefighting, literature and modern American culture Gerald Early
• 1993 Opera in America: A Cultural history John Dizikes
• 1992 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that remade America Garry Wills
• 1991 Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of memory Lawrence L. Langer
• 1990 Criticism encounters and reflections: Art in the historical present Arthur C. Danto