NBCC Awards 2016

摘要

On Thursday, March 16, at the New School for Social Research in New York City, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced the recipi-ents of its book awards for publishing year 2016. As with last November's National Book Awards, a sense of political urgency hung over the proceedings. Mi-chelle Dean, awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, set the tone by arguing that "what a writer is supposed to do is pay attention," particularly to worldwide suffering and the role of power in soci-ety. Distinguished Canadian author/ac-tivist Margaret Atwood, who received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, cemented these sentiments by proclaiming, "Never has democracy felt so challenged."