Maureen Corrigan

Book critic Maureen Corrigan comments on the phenomenon of citywide reading groups, where an entire city reads the same book.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews A is for American, the new book by historian Jill Lepore.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan looks back at Astrid Lindgren, the creator of the Pippi Longstocking books. The Swedish author died this week at the age of 94.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Gone (Henry Holt) the new novel by Martin Roper.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan on her favorite books of 2001

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Poetry Speaks (Sourcebooks) a collection of poems by 42 English speaking poets, along with biographical and critical essays, as well as three CDs featuring the poets reading their own work.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan has her holiday season literary gift list. This year, all the books revolve around New York City: Manhatten Unfurled (2001) by Matteo Pericoli; A Walker in the City (1951) by Alfred Kazin; A Drinking Life (1994) by Pete Hamill; Terrible Honesty (1995) by Ann Douglas; Down 42nd Street: Sex, Money, Culture, and Politics at the Crossroads of the World (2001) by Marc Eliot; My New York (1993) by Kathy Jakobsen.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Wittgensteins Poker (Ecco Press) by British journalists David Edmonds & John Eidinow.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Look at Me by Jennifer Egan (Doubleday), and talks about Jonathan Franzens bestseller The Corrections.

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