NONFICTION - Maya Jasanoff's Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, a book of fresh, original, and sprightly scholarship, by Harvard professor of British history Jasanoff, acknowledging colonists’ response to Loyalists during the Revolutionary War and the consequences for Britain’s entire empire thereafter.
BIOGRAPHY - John Lewis Gaddis' George F. Kennan: An American Life, a book that brings alive the remarkable American statesman while also delivering a profound understanding of U.S. foreign policy in the 20th-century.
POETRY - Laura Kasischke's Space, in Chains, a formally inventive work that speaks to the horrors and delights of ordinary life in an utterly original way.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Mira Bartók's The Memory Palace: A Memoir, a book that rose to the formal challenge of blending her mother’s journals, reflections on her mother’s mental illness and subsequent homelessness, and thoughts on her own recovery from a head injury to create a heartfelt yet respectful work of art.
CRITICISM - Geoff Dyer's Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews, celebrating critic par excellence who showed his love of his various subject in tour-de-force language.
(excerpts taken from the National Book Critics Circle blog)
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