Maureen Corrigan

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Nathan Englander's debut collection of short stories, "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" (Knopf)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Dreamland" (HarperCollins) the new novel by Kevin Baker about New York City in the early 1900s.

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Hours" (FS&G) Michael Cunningham's literary tribute to Virginia Woolf. Originally aired 11/18/1998

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Show Me a Hero : A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption" by New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin. It examines the fallout from a federal court order requiring Yonkers, NY, to desegregate by moving hundreds of its poor minority residents into public housing on the middle-class side of town.
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Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters" (Pantheon) a memoir by Wendy Lesser, the founder and co-editor of "The Threepenny Review" a journal of literature and arts which will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "While I Was Gone" by Sue Miller and "The Climate of the Country" by Marnie Mueller.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Scars of Sweet Paradise" (Metropolitan Books), the new biography of Janis Joplin by historian Alice Echols.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Charlotte Gray" the new novel by Sebastian Faulks the author of "Birdsong." (Random House)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Crime of Sheila McGough" ("McGuff") by journalist Janet Malcolm, published by Knopf.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews three new thrillers. Basilica by William Montalbano (Putnam), Archangel by Robert Harris (Random House), The Second Angel by Philip Kerr (Henry Holt).