2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol Anderson

From the Civil War to our combustible present, and now with a new epilogue about the 2016 presidential election, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race. White Rage chronicles the powerful forces opposed to black …

Against Everything: Essays

Mark Greif

Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

Peter Orner

Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

Alice Kaplan

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Olivia Laing