2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

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…

Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon

Daniel Dennett

Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays

Frederick Crews

On Looking: Essays

Lia Purpura

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within

Bruce Bawer