Maureen Corrigan

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

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.

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

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.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews a new autobiography by P.D. James.

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

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

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews a new biography about Joan of Arc.