Corrigan, Maureen

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May 26, 2000

06:53

Armchair Travel Through Time This Summer.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan gives us her picks for the best summer reading.

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May 22, 2000

05:11

An Ambitious and Sprawling Novel.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews “White Teeth” by Zadie Smith. It’s Smith’s debut novel about a couple of World War 2 veterans and their families.

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May 1, 2000

05:28

What's the Value of a Human Life?

Critic Maureen Corrigan reflects on the value of work, upon receiving a letter about her benefits from the Social Security Administration.

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April 18, 2000

05:34

Saul Bellow's Newest Novel “Ravelstein.”

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel by Saul Bellow, “Ravelstein”

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April 13, 2000

05:20

The History of Greenwich Village.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews “American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century” by Christine Stansell.

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March 20, 2000

05:09

Has Sontag Gone Soft?

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel by Susan Sontag called In America (Farrar Straus & Giroux).

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March 3, 2000

04:53

Another Entry in the Death by Literature Sub-Genre.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews “The Romantics” (Random House) by Pankaj Mishra.

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Armchair Travel Through Time This Summer.

An Ambitious and Sprawling Novel.

Deepen Your Appreciation of P.D. James.

What's the Value of a Human Life?

Saul Bellow's Newest Novel “Ravelstein.”

The History of Greenwich Village.

A Refreshingly Slim Biography.

Has Sontag Gone Soft?

Another Entry in the Death by Literature Sub-Genre.

A Incomprehensible Novel.

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