Maureen Corrigan

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Knopf), a memoir by the late Jean-Dominique Bauby.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Manhattan '45" by Jan Morris (Oxford University Press), "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer (Random House) and "Travelers' Tales Guides" (to Hong Kong, Paris, and San Francisco (O'Reilly and Associates.)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews R.F Foster's biography "W.B. Yeats a Life : The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 Vol 1. This first volume covers the years 1865 through 1914, a time during which Yeats met his great love and the subject of some of his finest poems, Maude Gonne. This is also the period in which the poet, along with Lady Gregory and John Millington Synge created the famous Abbey Theater and wrote some of his finest poems.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Down by the River," by Edna O'Brien.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the latest novel by Ward Just called "Echo House."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new book by our new poet laureate Robert Pinsky, "The Figured Wheel" (Noonday)." She also reviews other poetry books: "View with a Grain of Sand" by Wislawa Szymborksa (Harcourt Brace); "Meadowlands" by Louise Gluck" (Ecco); "Does Your House Have Lions" by Sonia Sanchez" (FS&G).

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Lives of the Monster Dogs" by Kristen Bakis, which features, among other things, genetically engineered canines.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Kiss," the new book by Kathryn Harrison. The controversial book tells the story of her incestuous relationship with her father when she was in her 20s.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Arkansas," the new collection of three short stories by writer David Leavitt.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews J.D. Salinger's last known writing, a short story that appeared in The New Yorker magazine, June 19, 1965. It's about to be republished in book form.