Maureen Corrigan

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Americanization of Ben Franklin by Gordon S. Wood.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews some new summer reads. Below is a list of her favorites:

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett, a memoir about her friendship with the late Lucy Grealy, best known for her 1994 book Autobiography of a Face.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Bone Woman, by forensic anthropologist Clea Koff.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews A Song I Knew By Heart,the new novel by Bret Lott.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new mystery novels: An Unpardonable Crime by Andrew Taylor, and A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists 1854-67, by Rachel Cohen. It's a book about friendships between American writers and artists and photographers.

Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new updated versions of classic Nancy Drew novels.

The Fresh Air book critic reviews three books about life in New York City: Love Monkey, by Kyle Smith, Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts, by Charlie LeDuff, and Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan, by Phillip Lopate.