Maureen Corrigan

Maureen Corrigan reviews "A Very Long Engagement," by French novelist Sebastien Japrisot.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Wendy Lesser's book, "Pictures at an Execution," looking at why we are fascinated with murder.

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Jacqueline Deval's new book, "Reckless Appetites" (Ecco).

Maureen Corrigan reviews novelist E.L. Doctorow's first book of essays, entitled "Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two sequels to literary classics, "Sherlock Holmes" and "Pride and Prejudice".

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Witness Against the Beast" by the late British writer E.P. Thompson.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Morning After," by Katie Roiphe. (Little, Brown).

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Buccaneers," (Viking) the final novel by Edith Wharton. It was published as an unfinished novel after Wharton's death in 1937. Now it's been completed -- by scholar and novelist Marion Mainwaring -- and published again.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan on two new books of non-fiction: "Theirs Was The Kingdom" by John Heidenry (Norton) a history of Readers Digest, and "Land Of Desire" by William Leach (Pantheon) about rise of the department store in the nineteenth century.

Maureen Corrigan on a British best seller, published this month: "The Queen and I" by Sue Townsend (Soho Books).