Maureen Corrigan
Remembering Pete Hamill, A Journalist With A Whitman-esque Embrace Of NYC
Book critic Maureen Corrigan remembers the veteran NYC newsman, who died Aug. 5, as "a tenement kid and high school drop out who never lost connection to where he came from."
A Mean Ghost Story And A Souped-Up Crime Novel Will Wise You Up Fast
Maureen Corrigan reviews two new books that could easily be overlooked, but shouldn't be.
1918 Flu Inspired Donoghue's 'Pull Of The Stars' — A Disquieting Pandemic Novel
Emma Donoghue's new novel "The Pull of the Stars," is set in a maternity ward in 1918 in Dublin, a city hollowed out by the flu, World War I and the 1916 Irish Uprising.
'Want' Captures The Precariousness Of America's Middle Class
Maureen Corrigan says the new novel 'Want' is sharp about economic fragility and just how close to the edge people are — even with the seeming safeguard of middle-class jobs and good educations.
Identical Twins Become Divided By Race In 'The Vanishing Half'
The Vanishing Half tells the multi-generational story of the Vignes sisters, Desiree and Stella, two very pretty identical twins who grow up in the small town of Mallard, La. It's a town where all the residents are light-skinned African Americans.