Recreation

National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

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2008

Children's literatureChildren’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter Winner
Seth Lerer
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard
Richard Brody
The Men in My Life
Vivian Gornick
Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds
Joel L. Kraemer
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Reginald Shepherd

2007

The rest is noiseThe 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