Books

Maureen Corrigan reviews “City of God” by E.L. Doctorow.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two popular books from last year, that have just been published in paperback: Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (Little Brown and Co.) by Thom Jones and The Intuitionist (Anchor Books) by Colson Whitehead.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new thrillers set in Washington, DC: Shame the Devil by George Pelecanos (Little Brown and Co.) and Chaos Theory by Gary Krist (Random House).

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by historian Linda Gordon (Harvard Press).

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Tea" (Algonquin Books) the debut novel by Stacey D'Erasmo.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love" by Dave Sobel (Walker)

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Waiting" (Pantheon) by Ha Jin the winner of this year's National Book Award for fiction, a novel which is set in China during the Cultural Revolution.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Motherless Brooklyn" (Doubleday) by Jonathan Lethem, a mystery novel set in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel "Headlong" (Henry Holt) by British author Michael Frayn.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man" (Morrow) by Susan Faludi. It's a non-fiction account of the myths and betrayals American society has perpetrated on men. Faludi's first book was the highly acclaimed "Backlash."