2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner
![Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581022155-5665-image-3.jpg)
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
Lawrence Weschler
From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, art historian and journalist Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther one travels (through geography, through art, thr…
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist
![Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580869059-500-image-3.jpg)
Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon
Daniel Dennett
![Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581019004-5405-image-3.jpg)
Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays
Frederick Crews
![On Looking: Essays](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580983949-3941-image-3.jpg)
On Looking: Essays
Lia Purpura
![While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580940431-60175-image-3.jpg)