The Atlantic won in the reviews and criticism category for Caitlin Flanagan's wide-ranging commentaries.
In the criticism category, Philip Kennicott of the Washington Post was honoured for his essays on art.
The criticism category was won by Seth Lerer for Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter.
Increasingly, they dominate whole genres: Graywolf, for example, has three books nominated in the criticism category: Eula Biss's On Immunity, Vikram Chandra's Geek Sublime, and Citizen.
Citizen was also nominated in the criticism category, but the award went to The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by her daughter Nona Willis Aronowitz.
He's the only food writer ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism ("For his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater") and the first to be a finalist in the Essay or Criticism category of the National Magazine Awards.
Reviews & Criticism This category recognizes excellence in criticism of art, books, movies, television, theatre, music, dance, food, dining, fashion, products, and the like.
REVIEWS and CRITICISM This category recognizes excellence in criticism of art, books, movies, television, theater, music, dance, food, dining, fashion, products and the like.
Claudia Rankine, whose award-winning collection of prose poetry, "Citizen," was the first book to be a National Book Critics Circle finalist in two categories, Criticism and Poetry, will appear on Thursday at the panel "(Re Figuring Voice: A Talk, A Screening, A Performance and Two Readings" with Laura Elrick, Miranda Mellis, Christina Milletti and Christine Hume.
He also dealt with the traditional criticism of the Categories, including a comprehensive discussion of the objections leveled by the earlier interpreters of the Categories (e.g., the Stoic Athenodorus and Cornutus, and the Platonic Lucius and Nicostratus).
Most of the criticisms in this category have come from scientists working with the peppered moth, including Kettlewell himself.
