National Book Critics Circle Finalists – 2014

Source: National Book Critics Circle: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS; Sandrof Award to Toni Morrison – Critical Mass Blog

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

1. Blake Bailey, The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait (W.W. Norton & Co.)
2. Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
3. Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side (Tin House)
4. Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure (Random House)
5. Meline Toumani, There Was and There Was Not (Metropolitan Books)

 

BIOGRAPHY

1. Ezra Greenspan, William Wells Brown: An African American Life (W.W. Norton & Co.)
2. S.C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (Scribner)
3. John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Co.)
4. Ian S. MacNiven, “Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
5. Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography (Bloomsbury)

 

CRITICISM

1. Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Innoculation (Graywolf Press)
2. Vikram Chandra, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Graywolf Press)
3. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
4. Lynne Tillman, What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (Red Lemonade)
5. Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz (University of Minnesota Press)

 

FICTION

1. Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press)
2. Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books)
3. Lily King, Euphoria (Atlantic Monthly Press)
4. Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea (Riverhead Books)
5. Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

 

GENERAL NONFICTION

1. David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Alfred A. Knopf)
2. Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book (Pantheon)
3. Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Henry Holt & Co.)
4. Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press)
5. Hector Tobar, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

POETRY

1. Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press)
2. Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Books)
3. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
4. Christian Wiman, Once in the West (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
5. Jake Adam York, Abide (Southern Illinois University Press)

 

NONA BALAKIAN CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING: Alexandra Schwartz

JOHN LEONARD PRIZE: Phil Klay, Redeployment (Penguin Press)

 

2014 Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships: Author Recognitions by NYRB

Source: Literary Awards by Year – Lannan Foundation

1. Steve Erickson, 2014, Award, Lifetime
2. Mitchell S. Jackson, 2014, Fellowship, Fiction
3. Adrian Matejka, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
4. Jamaal May, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
5. Jill McDonough, 2014, Fellowship, Poetry
6. Claudia Rankine, 2014, Award, Poetry
7. Joseph Stroud, 2014, Award, Lifetime

Cultural Freedom awards and fellowships

• Bryan Stevenson, Cultural Freedom Prize
• Max Blumenthal awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Award for An Especially Notable Book
• Dave Zirin awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Fellowship
• Alexis Bonogofsky awarded 2014 Cultural Freedom Fellowship

G20 Thinktanks: 2012 Global Go To Think Tank Index

2012 Global Go To Think Tank Report– Click for Download

Member	GDP (PPP)	Population	Think Tanks
Argentina	$596 billion	41.769,726	137
Australia	$882.4 billion	21.766.711	30
Brazil	$2.172 trillion	203,766,711	82
Canada	$1.33 trillion	34,030,589	96
China	$10.09 trillion	1,336,718,015	429
European Union	$14.82 trillion	492,387,344	1457
France	$2.145 trillion	65,312,249	177
Germany	$2.94 trillion	81,471,834	194
India	$4.06 trillion	1,189,172,906	269
Indonesia	$1.03 trillion	245,613,043	21
Italy	$1.774 trillion	61,016,804	107
Japan	$4.31 trillion	126,475,664	108
Mexico	$1.567 trillion	113,724,226	60
Republic of Korea	$1.459 trillion	48,754,657	35
Russia	$2.223 trillion	138,739,892	122
Saudi Arabia	$622 billion	26,131,703	4
South Africa	$524 billion	40,004,031	86
Turkey	$960.5 billion	78,785,548	27
United Kingdom	$2.173 trillion	62,698,362	288
United States	$14.66 trillion	313,232,044	1823

India

51.   Centre for  Civil Society (CCS)  (India)

54.   Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) (India)

81.   The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) (India)

105. Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) (India)

119. Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) (India)
110. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) (India)

115. Observer Research Foundation  (India)

141. Development Alternatives (India)

• Centre for Policy Research  (India)
• Delhi Policy Group  (India)
• Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) (India)
• Center for Study of Science Technology and Policy  (India)
• National Council of Applied Economic Research  (India)
• Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (India)
• Institute of Economic Growth (India)
• United Service Institution of India (India)
•  Liberty Institute (India)