Books

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews My Wars Are Laid Away In Books (Random House), the new biography of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan tells us about some of the mysteries she and her friends are reading to help cope with the times. They include Hope to Die the new Laurence Block mystery featuring hard-boiled detective Matt Scudder; Journey into Fear (1940) a classic by Eric Ambler; Rouge Male (1950) by Geoffrey Household; The Ministry of Fear (1943) by Graham Greene; The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new short story collection Flights of Love (Pantheon) by Bernhard Schlink.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel London Bridges (Houghton Mifflin) by Jane Stevenson.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Almost."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the novel Long Time No See by Susan Isaac, her sequel to her 1978 bestseller Compromising Positions.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews

Historian Stephen E Ambrose's new book is “The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s Over Germany.” (Simon & Schuster) It’s about the 18-22 year old men, including the young George McGovern, who flew dangerous missions in the plane they called “The Liberator.” The casualty rate was nearly 50 percent. Ambrose is the author of a number of books of history, including the New York Times number one bestseller “Nothing Like it in the World.”

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Grand Complication a new novel by Allen Kurzweil that she says is perfect summer reading

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews –The Fourth Hand— (Random House) by John Irving.