Maureen Corrigan

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews “Several Deceptions” by Jane Stevenson.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews “The Blind Assassin” (Doubleday) the new novel by Margaret Atwood.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews A Good House, Bonnie Burnard’s first novel. It won the 1999 Giller prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award. It’s just been published in this country.

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews “The Fundamentals of Play,” by Caitlin Macy. She says it can be read as one big fictional quote of the Great Gatsby.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new collections of essays: “Red Smith on Baseball” (Ivan R. Dee), and “The Secret Parts of Fortune” by Ron Rosenbaum (Random House)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews “An Obedient Father” (Farrar Straus & Giroux) the debut novel by short story writer Akhil Sharma.

The next installment of the Harry Potter series comes out tomorrow. Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the Harry Potter books and the hype around them.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Katharine Butler Hathaway’s newly reprinted memoir, The Little Locksmith.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new novels about China: “Becoming Madame Mao”(Houghton Mifflin) a fictional biography by Anchee Min, and the detective novel, “Death of a Red Heroine” (Soho) by Qui Xialong.