Books

Maureen Corrigan reviews Donald Hall's new book, Life Work and the Mechanical Brides exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York which runs through January 2nd.

Book critic John Leonard reviews "The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf," by Kathryn Davis.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews, "The Bridges of Madison County," by Robert Kincaid (Rant) and acknowledges the 100th anniversary of Dorothy Parker's birth.

Book critic John Leonard reviews, "In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead," by James Lee Burke.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews the "Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales," edited by Alison Lurie. It includes 40 fairy tales written during the last century and a half by British and American writers.(Oxford University Press).

Maureen Corrigan has a review of "The Art of Fiction," novelist David Lodge's collection of 50 essays of literary criticism, published by Viking.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Peerless Flats," the new novel by Esther Freud, great-grand-daughter of Sigmund Freud.

Maureen Corrigan reviews the new Patricia Cornwell mystery, "Cruel and Unusual".

Book critic John Leonard reviews the novel "In the Eye of the Sun," by Ahdaf Soueif, about young Egyptian woman's life in England.

Book critic John Leonard reviews Andre Brink's new novel Cape of Storms. Brink is a white South African writer who imagines the first meeting between Europeans and native Africans.