Books

A story about a fictional famed Irish poet named Phil McDaragh who deserts his sick wife and two young daughters — a betrayal that reverberates into his granddaughter's life.

In Naomi Hirahara's new novel a Japanese American family that had been interned during World War II returns home to a Los Angeles that isn't what they remembered.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan says The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels she's read this year. She says it pulls off the singular magic trick of being simultaneously flattening and uplifting

Maureen Corrigan's review of two new novels that are great summer reading: Do Tell by Lindsay Lynch and The Stolen Coast by Dwyer Murphy

Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, and Robert Mugge's Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music.

Maureen Corrigan is a professor of literature at Georgetown University. She reviewed Anne Hull's new memoir, "Through The Groves."

Maureen Corrigan reviews Richard Ford's new book, "Be Mine," and Lorrie Moore's "I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home."

Two new novels about the struggle to find and keep a secure place in America have caught our book critic Maureen Corrigan's attention.

German author Jenny Erpenbeck is one of the most acclaimed writers of the last 25 years. Her new novel "Kairos," just out from New Directions, tells the story of a 19-year-old female student in East Berlin who falls in love with a much older male writer in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Maureen reviewed "Beware The Woman" by Megan Abbott and "My Murder" by Katie Williams.