Maureen Corrigan

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Poetry Speaks (Sourcebooks) a collection of poems by 42 English speaking poets, along with biographical and critical essays, as well as three CDs featuring the poets reading their own work.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan has her holiday season literary gift list. This year, all the books revolve around New York City: Manhatten Unfurled (2001) by Matteo Pericoli; A Walker in the City (1951) by Alfred Kazin; A Drinking Life (1994) by Pete Hamill; Terrible Honesty (1995) by Ann Douglas; Down 42nd Street: Sex, Money, Culture, and Politics at the Crossroads of the World (2001) by Marc Eliot; My New York (1993) by Kathy Jakobsen.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Wittgensteins Poker (Ecco Press) by British journalists David Edmonds & John Eidinow.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Look at Me by Jennifer Egan (Doubleday), and talks about Jonathan Franzens bestseller The Corrections.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews My Wars Are Laid Away In Books (Random House), the new biography of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan tells us about some of the mysteries she and her friends are reading to help cope with the times. They include Hope to Die the new Laurence Block mystery featuring hard-boiled detective Matt Scudder; Journey into Fear (1940) a classic by Eric Ambler; Rouge Male (1950) by Geoffrey Household; The Ministry of Fear (1943) by Graham Greene; The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new short story collection Flights of Love (Pantheon) by Bernhard Schlink.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel London Bridges (Houghton Mifflin) by Jane Stevenson.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Almost."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the novel Long Time No See by Susan Isaac, her sequel to her 1978 bestseller Compromising Positions.