Maureen Corrigan

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Witness Against the Beast" by the late British writer E.P. Thompson.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Morning After," by Katie Roiphe. (Little, Brown).

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Buccaneers," (Viking) the final novel by Edith Wharton. It was published as an unfinished novel after Wharton's death in 1937. Now it's been completed -- by scholar and novelist Marion Mainwaring -- and published again.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan on two new books of non-fiction: "Theirs Was The Kingdom" by John Heidenry (Norton) a history of Readers Digest, and "Land Of Desire" by William Leach (Pantheon) about rise of the department store in the nineteenth century.

Maureen Corrigan on a British best seller, published this month: "The Queen and I" by Sue Townsend (Soho Books).

Maureen Corrigan reviews Donald Hall's new book, Life Work and the Mechanical Brides exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York which runs through January 2nd.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan tells us about the short horror story that has haunted her through the years. (It's "August Heat," by W.F. Harvey).(Rebroadcast from 8/20/92).

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews, "The Bridges of Madison County," by Robert Kincaid (Rant) and acknowledges the 100th anniversary of Dorothy Parker's birth.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews the "Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales," edited by Alison Lurie. It includes 40 fairy tales written during the last century and a half by British and American writers.(Oxford University Press).

Maureen Corrigan has a review of "The Art of Fiction," novelist David Lodge's collection of 50 essays of literary criticism, published by Viking.