Books

Maureen Corrigan reviews 4 mystery and suspense novels

Novelist and nonfiction writer Thomas Mallon has been keeping diaries for most of his life. They've just been acquired by the Library of Congress. A collection of his diary entries for the years 1983 to '94 has just been published under the title "The Very Heart Of It." Book critic Maureen Corrigan says if you're curious about why Thomas Mallon's diaries are a national treasure, just read this book.

In 1971, the year after The Beatles broke up, Lennon and Ono moved from London to New York, where they lived in a small Greenwich Village apartment for 18 months. A new film documents that period.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Daniel Kehlmann's new novel The Director.

Carolina Miranda reviews The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, says she expects Russell's new novel, "The Antidote," will be on a lot of prize lists this year.

When slavery ended in 1865, newly-freed Black Americans began to search for their lost family members, taking out ads, seeking information about children, spouses, siblings and parents. In her new book "Last Seen," historian Judith Giesberg tells some of the stories of people who placed those ads.

In the new autobiographical novel "Live Fast," Brigitte Giraud looks back at the accident that killed her husband. She speculates on the many ways that tragedy could have turned out differently. The book won the French equivalent of the Booker Prize.

Maureen Corrigan reviews the new memoir from Geraldine Brooks titled "Memorial Days"

The new Bob Dylan movie has put our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, in a New York state of mind. Here's her review of two quintessential New York books.