1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

Habitations of the Word

William Gass

Brings together the author’s reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound…

Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel

Phillip Fisher

Occasional Prose: Essays

Mary McCarthy

Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss

Paul Robinson

Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: 19th Century French Literary Artistis and Comic Pantomime

Robert Storey