Maureen Corrigan

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two popular books from last year, that have just been published in paperback: Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (Little Brown and Co.) by Thom Jones and The Intuitionist (Anchor Books) by Colson Whitehead.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new thrillers set in Washington, DC: Shame the Devil by George Pelecanos (Little Brown and Co.) and Chaos Theory by Gary Krist (Random House).

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by historian Linda Gordon (Harvard Press).

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Tea" (Algonquin Books) the debut novel by Stacey D'Erasmo.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan considers what books she wants to take with her into the next millennium.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan give us her list of the best books to put on your Christmas list:
Two British comic novels:
"The Country Life" by Rachel Cusk
"Headlong" by Michael Frayn
The novels:
"Waiting" by Ha Jin
"Amy and Isabelle" by Elizabeth Strout
Two short story collections:
"The Way People Run" by Christopher Tilghman
"The Best American Short Stories of the Century" edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison
The mysteries:

Book critic Maureen Corrigan tells us her picks of children's books that adults love.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love" by Dave Sobel (Walker)

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Waiting" (Pantheon) by Ha Jin the winner of this year's National Book Award for fiction, a novel which is set in China during the Cultural Revolution.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan weighs in on writer and feminist, Naomi Wolf.