Maureen Corrigan

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Florence Harding" (Morrow) the new biography of First Lady Florence Harding by Carl Sferrazza Anthony.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" (Little, Brown & Co.), the first book to be reissued in a series by C.S. Forester. The books feature the "man of action" Horatio Hornblower.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Bridget Jones's Diary," a novel by Helen Fielding that began as a newspaper column. It has been the best selling novel in Great Britain for six months and has just won the British Book Award of the Year.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "A Widow for One Year" (Random House) the new novel by John Irving, the author of "The World According to Garp."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Grace Paley's collection of short stories and other writing "Just As I thought."

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Long Falling," a first novel by Irish writer Keith Ridgway.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new books by poet and construction worker Susan Eisenberg. Her poems attest to the misogyny still present in the construction industry. The books are "Pioneering: Poems from the Construction Site" (ILR Press/Cornell) and "We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction" (ILR Press/Cornell)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Archivist" (Little, Brown) by Martha Cooley.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the novel "A Scientific Romance" (Picador) by Ronald Wright

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Are You Somebody" by Irish journalist Nuala O'Faolain.