Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Feel Free: Essays Zadie Smith Amazon 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages Carina Chocano Amazon 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson Amazon 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Argonauts Maggie Nelson Amazon 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz Ellen Willis Amazon 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Distant Reading Franco Moretti Amazon 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights Marina Warner Amazon 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews Geoff Dyer Amazon 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West Clare Cavanagh Amazon 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays Eula Biss Amazon 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter Seth Lerer Amazon 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Alex Ross Amazon 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences Lawrence Weschler Amazon 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin William Logan Amazon 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Where You’re At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet Patrick Neate Amazon 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism River of Shadows Rebecca Solnit Amazon 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Tests of Time William H. Gass Amazon 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 Martin Amis Amazon 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Quarrel & Quandary Cynthia Ozick Amazon 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Selected Non-Fictions Jorge Louis Borges Amazon 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Visions of Jazz: The First Century Gary Giddins Amazon 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Making Waves Mario Vargas Llosa Amazon 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Finding a Form William Gass Amazon 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolution France Robert Darnton Amazon 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Culture of Bruising Gerald Early Amazon 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Opera in America: A Cultural History John Dizikes Amazon 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Garry Wills Amazon 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory Lawrence L. Langer Amazon 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present Arthur Danto Amazon 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History John Clive Amazon 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author Clifford Geertz Amazon 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Dance Writings Edwin Denby Amazon 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Less Than One: Selected Essays Joseph Brodsky Amazon 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Habitations of the Word William Gass Amazon 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry Robert Hass Amazon 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism John Updike Amazon 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-82 Gore Vidal Amazon 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism A Virgil Thomson Reader Virgil Thomson Amazon 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Part of Nature: Modern American Poets Helen Vendler Amazon 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Gnostic Gospels Elaine Pagels Amazon 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries, Selected Papers Meyer Schapiro Amazon 1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism On Photography Susan Sontag Amazon 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Bruno Bettelheim Amazon 1975 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell Amazon