Maureen Corrigan

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Bride Price," by Grete Weil. The book is half autobiography, and half biblical story. (published by David Godine)

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Strange Loyalties," the latest novel by William McIlvanney.

Maureen Corrigan looks at a series of books and a movie with canine heroes: the "Taxi Dog" books and "Beethoven."

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "Clockers," the new novel by Richard Price about the world of a black crack dealer. (published by Houghton Mifflin).

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884-1933" by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Viking press).

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "City of Quartz" by Mike Davis (Vintage), a non-fiction look at the city of Los Angeles.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns," by Jane Tompkins (Oxford Univ. Press)

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Candidate's Wife," a politcal novel written by Michael Dukakis' former campaign press secretary, Patricia O'Brien (published by Simon and Schuster).

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Girls in the Balcony," by Nan Robertson about how women at "The New York Times," struggled for equality.

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Overworked American," Harvard economics professor Juliet Schor's examination of why we all work more than we did a few decades ago. (It's published by Basic Books).