Maureen Corrigan

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Grace Paley's collection of short stories and other writing "Just As I thought."

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Long Falling," a first novel by Irish writer Keith Ridgway.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new books by poet and construction worker Susan Eisenberg. Her poems attest to the misogyny still present in the construction industry. The books are "Pioneering: Poems from the Construction Site" (ILR Press/Cornell) and "We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction" (ILR Press/Cornell)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Archivist" (Little, Brown) by Martha Cooley.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the novel "A Scientific Romance" (Picador) by Ronald Wright

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Are You Somebody" by Irish journalist Nuala O'Faolain.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Illusionist" (Scribner) by Dinitia Smith.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new biography of Radclyffe Hall, "A Woman Called John" by Sally Cline (The Overlook Press).

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Birthday Letters" by English poet Ted Hughes. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) This is the much anticipated collection by Hughes who was once married to American poet Sylvia Plath. Many blame Hughes for Plath's suicide in 1963 after he left her for another woman.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Paradise" (Knopf) the new novel by Toni Morrison.