Books

Book critic John Leonard reviews "After Henry," a new collection of essays by Joan Didion.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "Clockers," the new novel by Richard Price about the world of a black crack dealer. (published by Houghton Mifflin).

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884-1933" by Blanche Wiesen Cook (Viking press).

Book critic John Leonard reviews "Monday's Warriors" by Maurice Shadbolt, about Maoris fighting the British Imperialists in New Zealand. (published by David Godine)

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "City of Quartz" by Mike Davis (Vintage), a non-fiction look at the city of Los Angeles.

Book critic John Leonard reviews Studs Terkel's new book, "Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession." (The New Press)

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns," by Jane Tompkins (Oxford Univ. Press)

Book critic John Leonard reviews the long-awaited new book by Toni Morrison, "Jazz."

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Candidate's Wife," a politcal novel written by Michael Dukakis' former campaign press secretary, Patricia O'Brien (published by Simon and Schuster).

Book critic John Leonard reviews, "How We Survived Communism," by Yugoslavian critic and feminist Slavenka Drakulic. (Slah-VENKA Drah-COOL-ITCH).