Maureen Corrigan

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Hunters and Gatherers the new comic novel by Francine Prose, a story about a Manhattan community of New Age Goddess worshippers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux .August 1995)

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Tree of Heaven by R.C. Binstock, about the Japanese invasion of China during the 1930s.

Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Charles Willeford's book High Priest of California, and Wild Wives (Search). It has been republished.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Last House: Reflections, Dreams, and Observations, 1943 - 1991, (Pantheon) the third in a trilogy of books of unpublished essays, letters and journals by M.F.K. Fisher, published after her death.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews a new edition of "The Postman," from which the new film of the same name was adapted.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new book, The Price of a Child (Knopf) by Lorene Cary. It's a historical novel about a black woman who escapes slavery with her children.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Independence Day by Richard Ford, the sequel to his acclaimed novel, The Sports Writer, about a troubled divorcé.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews No Ordinary Time (Simon and Schuster) by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Babe (University of Illinois Press) by Susan E. Cayleff.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews How 'Natives' Think, by Marshall Sahlins. It revisits the controversy surrounding anthropological analyses of James Cook's murder in Hawaii.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller. It's about the resentments of an adult child toward his parents.