Books

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Gardens of Kyoto" (Scribner) the debut novel by Kate Walbert.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new true crime book, Facing the Wind .

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews My Dream of You (Riverhead) by Irish writer Nuala OFaolain.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews several new books about food, the new Modern Librarys Food series which collects four books about food, and Comfort Me with Apples (Random House) by Ruth Reichl and The Kitchen Congregation (Picador) by Nora Seton.

Maureen Corrigan reviews the biography of Martha Matilda Harper.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Demonology

Corrigan reviews two new novels about academia: The Lecturers Tale by James Hynes and Meetings of the Mind by David Damrosch.

Corrigan reviews The Body Artist by Don DeLillo.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews thrillers.

Critic Milo Miles reviews the new edition of “The Rough Guide to World Music.”