Maureen Corrigan

Alice McDermott, who won the National Book Award for her 1997 novel "Charming Billy," has come out with her ninth novel. It's called "Absolution," and our book critic Maureen Corrigan says it leaves the old neighborhood far behind.

Over a decade has passed since Torres made his mark with his semi-autobiographical debut novel called We the Animals, which was hailed as an instant "queer classic" and made into a film. Blackouts justifies the wait.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan says given that it's a novel about the struggle to fend off deprivation and extinction, 'Land of Milk and Honey' is gloriously lush. Zhang's sensuous style makes us see, smell and, above all, taste the lure of that sun-dappled mountain enclave.

In her new novel called "The Vaster Wilds," Lauren Groff, who's been a finalist for the National Book Award three times, tells a harrowing story of an escape from Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

A story about a fictional famed Irish poet named Phil McDaragh who deserts his sick wife and two young daughters — a betrayal that reverberates into his granddaughter's life.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan says The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels she's read this year. She says it pulls off the singular magic trick of being simultaneously flattening and uplifting

The "Barbie" movie, directed by Greta Gerwig, is a big topic of conversation this summer. But to a special subset of audience members, girls who played with Barbies, the movie can evoke a lot of pink-tinged feelings. Here's one of those girls, our book critic Maureen Corrigan.

Maureen Corrigan's review of two new novels that are great summer reading: Do Tell by Lindsay Lynch and The Stolen Coast by Dwyer Murphy

Maureen Corrigan is a professor of literature at Georgetown University. She reviewed Anne Hull's new memoir, "Through The Groves."

Maureen Corrigan reviews Richard Ford's new book, "Be Mine," and Lorrie Moore's "I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home."