Books

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews some new summer reads. Below is a list of her favorites:

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Bone Woman, by forensic anthropologist Clea Koff.

Nunberg's new collection of commentary (originally written for broadcast and print) is Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times. Nunberg is senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University and consulting full professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He also writes for the Sunday New York Times Week in Review.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new mystery novels: An Unpardonable Crime by Andrew Taylor, and A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists 1854-67, by Rachel Cohen. It's a book about friendships between American writers and artists and photographers.

Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new updated versions of classic Nancy Drew novels.

The Fresh Air book critic reviews three books about life in New York City: Love Monkey, by Kyle Smith, Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts, by Charlie LeDuff, and Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan, by Phillip Lopate.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton.