1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-82

Gore Vidal

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Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism

Harold Bloom

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity

Marshall Berman

Going to the Dance

Arlene Croce

Woman and the Demon

Nina Auerbach