Memoir

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Katharine Butler Hathaway’s newly reprinted memoir, The Little Locksmith.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews a new autobiography by P.D. James.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Tis" Frank McCourt's sequel to "Angela's Ashes."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters" (Pantheon) a memoir by Wendy Lesser, the founder and co-editor of "The Threepenny Review" a journal of literature and arts which will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new books by poet and construction worker Susan Eisenberg. Her poems attest to the misogyny still present in the construction industry. The books are "Pioneering: Poems from the Construction Site" (ILR Press/Cornell) and "We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction" (ILR Press/Cornell)

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Are You Somebody" by Irish journalist Nuala O'Faolain.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan on the year's best books (that she's read): "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier; "Matters of Chance" by Jeannette Haien; the reprint "Independent People" by Haldor Laxness; the short stories "Publish and Perish" by James Hynes, "Lives of the Monster Dogs" by Kirsten Bakis; for non-fiction: "Big Trouble" by J. Anthony Lukas; "Halfway Heaven" by Melanie Thernstrom; "The Gay Metropolis" by Charles Kaiser; volume 2 of "W.B. Yeats" a biography by R.F.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir" (Viking) by Elizabeth Ehrlich.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Knopf), a memoir by the late Jean-Dominique Bauby.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Kiss," the new book by Kathryn Harrison. The controversial book tells the story of her incestuous relationship with her father when she was in her 20s.