The National Book Critics Circle consists of nearly 700 book reviewers. Here’s a list of recent winners of their annual award for criticism:

2008 · Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History by Seth Lerer

2007 · The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

2006 · Everything That Rises by Lawrence Weschler

2005 · The Undiscovered Country by William Logan

2004 Where You’re At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet by Patrick Neate

2003 · River of Shadows: Edweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit

2002 · Tests of Time by William H. Gass

2001 · The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 by Martin Amis

2000  Quarrel & Quandary: Essays by Cynthia Ozick

1999 ·Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

1998 ·Visions of Jazz by Gary Giddins

1997 ·Making Waves by Mario Vargas Llosa

1996 ·Finding a Form by William Gass

And now we’re at it, here’s the same for the Truman Capote prize for literary criticism. The award is administered by the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

1996
Helen Vendler, The Given and the Made

1997 
John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew

1998
John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy

1999 
Charles Rosen, Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen

2000 
Elaine Scarry, Dreaming by the Book; Philip Fisher, Still the New World

2001 
Malcolm Bowie, Proust Among the Stars

2002 
Declan Kiberd, Irish Classics

2003 
Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971–2001

2004 
Susan Stewart, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses

2005 
Angus Fletcher, A New Theory for American Poetry:

2006 

Geoffrey Hartman, The Geoffrey Hartman Reader

2007 
William H. Gass, A Temple of Text

2008 
Helen Small, The Long Life

2009

Geoffrey Hill, Collected Critical Writings

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