Maureen Corrigan

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN has some suggestions for late summer reading: The Intrigue By Silvía Moreno-Garcia; The Blue Flame By George Pelecanos; and Under the Falls By Richard Russo.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews Etna the new novel by Paul Yoon, the narration was inspired by his dog Oscar.

For our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, summer reading sometimes means catching up on the books she missed earlier in the year. Here's her short roundup of some spring books.

Mary Beard taught classics for most of her life at Cambridge, but her career has also included popular TV shows and books that reach a wide audience. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says Beard's latest book, "Talking Classics," illuminates a lot about the ancient world and our own.

Maureen Corrigan reviewed two novels by 'Pemi Aguda and Elizabeth Strout.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN recommends three new novels: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, American Fantasy by Emma Straub, and Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Nancy Foley’s debut novel I am Agatha.

Maureen Corrigan reviewed The Keeper

Before the captivity narrative about a Mexican woman abducted by the Apache in the mid-1800s; before the storyline about Geronimo's surrender; before the torrent of details about the life and peoples on the borderlands between present-day Mexico and the U.S.; there's this first sentence:

In the beginning, things appear. Writing is a defiant gesture we’ve long since gotten used to: where there was nothing, somebody put something, and now everybody sees it. For example, the prairie.

Allegra Goodman's latest novel is called "This Is Not About Us." But our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, says that title is coy. Goodman's readers are bound to see aspects of themselves and their families in these pages. Here's her review.