The National Book Critics Circle awards have been announced. They are

• Fiction: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• Nonfiction: Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
• Biography: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
• Memoir/Autobiography: The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
• Poetry: Tom Thomson in Purgatory by Troy Jollimore
• Criticism: Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler