Maureen Corrigan

Critic Maureen Corrigan says the best she can say about Barnes's "Porcupine," about deposed communist leaders on trial in Eastern Europe, is that she "didn't not like it."

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "Free Speech for Me--But Not for Thee," by Nat Hentoff. The iconoclastic writer gives his opinions on various free speech issues -- many of which he reported on as a journalist.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews an exhibition that opened last week in Washington, D.C., which displays objects left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial over the years.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the classic compendium of health information for women--which she says is as important today as it was when it was first published two decades ago.

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Ripley Under Water," a new crime novel by Patricia Highsmith -- her fifth featuring debonair con man Tom Ripley.

Maureen Corrigan, who is a lapsed Catholic herself, reviews the book Catholic Girls, a collection of essays by other lapsed Catholics. The writers' feelings about being raised Catholic range from nostalgic to angry.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan on Madonna's new book of photograph's, "Sex." Corrigan says it does what Madonna does best: gets people to say her name.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews the reissue of Norman Mailer's autobiographical work, first published in 1959.

Writer Norman McLean died in 1990, leaving behind an unfinished manuscript about firefighters who died during the Mann Gulch Fire in Montana. It's just been published, and critic Maureen Corrigan has a review.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "Motor City" by Bill Morris. It's his first book, and deals with the auto industry and a whole host of cultural figures from the 1950s.