2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross

The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences….

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

Ben Ratliff

Once Upon a Quniceanera

Julia Alvarez

The Terror Dream

Susan Faludi

Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints

Joan Acocella