NBCC Finalists Announced

The National Book Critics Circle has announced finalists for its award. In the fiction category, the shortlist includes:

• E.L. Doctorow, The March
• Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
• Andrea Levy, Small Island
• Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
• William Vollman, Europe Central

In general non-fiction, the finalists are:

• Svetlana Alexievich, Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
• Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
• Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
• Caroline Moorehead, Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees
• Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War

In the “autobiography” category, Joan Didion was, of course, nominated, as were Orhan Pamuk (for Istanbul) and Vikram Seth (for Two Lives).