The National Book Critics Circle Awards announced winners on Thursday evening: Fiction: Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf) Nonfiction: Island on Fire, by Tom Zoellner (Harvard Univ. Press) First Book: Luster, by Raven Leilani (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Biography: Stranger in the Shogun’s City, by Amy Stanley (Scribner) Autobiography: Minor Feelings, by Cathy Park Hong (One World) Poetry: Here Is the Sweet Hand, by francine j. harris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Criticism: Marking Time, by Nicole R. Fleetwood (Harvard Univ. Press) Previously announced were Jo Livingstone, winner the 2020 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, and The Feminist Press at the […]