The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award have been announced in New York City. The award is voted on by critics and considers all books in English (including in translation), no matter the country of origin. The winners in the various categories and some supplementary links:
Fiction: Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (excerpt)
Nonfiction: Maya Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (excerpt)
Autobiography: Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace: A Memoir (“The Writer at the Memory Table“)
Criticism: Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (“Putting It Together,” “The Millions Interview: Geoff Dyer on the London Riots, the Great War, and the Gray Lady“)
Biography: John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (excerpt)
Poetry: Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
Previously: The finalists
