Books

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Mark O'Donnell's new Christmas novel, "Let Nothing You Dismay."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" (Riverhead books,) by Harold Bloom.

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Hours" (FS&G), Michael Cunningham's literary tribute to Virgina Woolf.

Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel by Tom Wolfe, "A Man in Full" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the 50th Anniversary edition of Thomas Merton's spiritual autobiography, "The Seven Story Mountain" (Harcourt Brace).

The Fresh Air book critic reviews Philip Roth's new novel,"I Married a Communist." (Houghton Mifflin)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Birds of America" (Knopf) by Lorrie Moore.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg comments on Simon Winchester's new book "The Professor and the Madman." It details the true story of the American psychopath who played a major role in compiling the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 1800s.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel "Reservation Road" by John Burnham Schwartz. It's published by Knopf.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Dorothy Herrmann's new biography "Helen Keller: A Life" (Knopf).