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08:05

Feeling cooped up? Get out of town with this delightful literary road trip

Ben Markovits' novel, "The Rest Of Our Lives," was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and has just been published here in the U.S. Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, says it's the perfect little literary novel to curl up with, especially if winter weather has you feeling cooped up.

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09:05

Maureen Corrigan's 10 favorite books of 2025 — with plenty for nonfiction lovers

book critic Maureen Corrigan's 10 favorite books of 2025

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08:36

A dying woman chooses friends over her husband in 'Some Bright Nowhere'

Our book critic Maureen Corrigan has a review of a new novel that she says should spark all sorts of lively conversations about end-of-life care and what the living owe the dying. It's by Ann Packer, and it's called "Some Bright Nowhere."

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