1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolution France

Robert Darnton

In this remarkable book, Robert Darnton addresses one of the classic ‘big questions’ of history – what caused the French Revolution? – by beginning with a query of a different order, a more manageable one that can be answered: what did the ……

After the Fact

Clifford Geertz

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew

John Felstiner

The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

Stanley Crouch

The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets and Poetasters

Thomas M. Disch