Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
April 2001

Sunday April 29, 2001
New York Times Book Review
  • Crawling at Night by Nani Power Review by Dwight Garner

  • Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James Review by Sarah Ferrell

  • The Collected Stories of Richard Yates Review by Anthony Quinn

  • Morning by W.D. Wetherell Review by John Leland

  • The Far Field by Edie Meidav Review by Barbara Crossette

    Books in Brief:
  • Kinship Theory by Hester Kaplan Review by Dana Kennedy

  • We're So Famous by Jaime Clarke Review by Emily White

  • The Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge Review by Judith Bolton-Fasman

  • Somewhere South of Here by William Kowalski Review by Elizabeth Judd

  • Thanksgiving by Michael Dibdin Review by Michael Porter

  • Fixer Chao by Han Ong Review by Kera Bolonik

    Washington Post Book World
  • Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Hero's Walk by Anitra Rau Badami Review by Leslie Pietrzyk

  • Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Fighting Gravity by Peggy Rambach
  • Mouthing the Words by Camilla Gibb
  • Undercurrents by Frances Fyfield
  • Coming Back to Me by Caroline Leavitt
    Review by John Freeman

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Review by Francie Lin

  • Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers Review by Martin Rubin

  • In the Company of Angels by N.M. Kelby Review by Irina Reyn

  • Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield Review by Carmella Ciuraru

  • 57 Chicago by Steve Monroe Review by Richard Wallace

  • Goose Music by Richard Horan Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio

    Chicago Tribune
  • Inspired Sleep by Robert Cohen
  • In the Gathering Woods by Adria Bernardi
  • Death of a Guide by Richard Flanagan
  • Morning by W.D. Wetherell
  • Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst
    Review by Laura Demanski

  • Authorized Personnel Only by Barbara D'Amato Review by Linnet Myers

  • Strange Fire by Melvin Jules Bukiet Review by Carey Harrison

  • The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divalaruni
  • Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
    Review by Zarena Alsami

  • Kissing the Virgin's Mouth by Donna M. Gershten Review by Dawn Marlan

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Devil's Oasis by Bartle Bull Review by Lionel Shriver

    Boston Globe
  • All His Sons: A Novella and Nine Stories by Frederic Raphael Review by Amanda Heller

  • Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin Review by Gail Caldwell

    LA Times
  • The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt Review by Michael Frank

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler Review by Colleen Kelly Warren

  • The Tether: Poems by Carl Phillips Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss

    Sunday April 22, 2001
    New York Times Book Review
  • Honeymoon and Other Stories by Kevin Canty Review by Stacey D'Erasmo

  • Famous Woman by Giovanni Boccaccio Review by Ingrid D. Rowland

  • Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg Review by Maria Russo

  • I, Roger Williams: A Fragment of Autobiography by Mary Lee Settle Review by Caleb Crain

  • Ex-Libris by Ross King Review by Michael Pye

  • After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell Review by Maud Casey

  • Taps by Millie Morris Review by Richard Eder

  • Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom Review by Margot Livesey

  • The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve Review by Tom Shone

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Collected Stories of Richard Yates Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • The Shape of Things To Come by Maud Casey Review by Judith Warner

  • Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Review by Sudip Bose

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Review by Cynthia Haven

  • Taps by Willie Morris Review by Brad Vice

  • The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble Review by Martin Rubin

  • The Black Madonna by Louisa Ermelino Review by Mick LaSalle

  • Cane River by Lalita Tademy Review by Kyla Wazana

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve Review by Martha Woodall

  • The Love Artist by Jane Alison Review by Carlin Romano

  • Transfigurations: Collected Poems by Jay Wright Review by Louis Simpson

  • The Rising Sun by Douglas Galbraith Review by James Polk

    Boston Globe
  • The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve Review by Gail Caldwell

    LA Times
  • The Garden of Secrets by Juan Goytisolo Review by Douglas Messerli

    Discoveries:
  • Lemon by Lawrence Krauser
  • Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Chicago Tribune
  • A Few Corrections by Brad Leithauser Review by Porter Shreve

  • American Fuji by Sara Backer Review by Danielle Svetcov

  • Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin Review by John Freeman

  • The Last Report On the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louis Erdrich Review by Sandra Scofield

  • The Dying Animal by Philip Roth Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Border Crossing by Pat Barker Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel

  • The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble Review by Joanne V. Creighton

    Sunday April 15, 2001
    New York Times
  • Dreamcatcher by Stephen King Review by Colin Harrison

  • Secret Love by Bart Schneider Review by Gary Kamiya

  • Endangered Species by Louis Bayard Review by Brigitte Frase

  • A Nurse's Story and Others by Peter Baida Review by Aoibheann Sweeney

  • Afterimage by Helen Humphreys Review by Andrea Barrett

    Books in Brief: Poetry
  • Felt by Alice Fulton Review by Megan Harlan

  • Life on Earth by Frederick Seidel Review by David Kirby

  • Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems by Bill Knott Review by Ken Tucker

  • June-Tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000 by Peter Balakian Review by Susan Shapiro

  • As For Dream by Saskia Hamilton Review by Matthew Flamm

  • The Paintings of Our Lives by Grace Schulman Review by Melanie Rehak

    Washington Post Book World
  • A Few Corrections by Brad Leithauser Review by Steven Moore

  • Frida by Barbara Mujica Review by Roxanna Robinson

  • Kissing the Virgin's Mouth by Donna M. Gershten Review by Lori Tsang

  • Martyr's Crossing by Amy Wilentz Review by Tova Reich

  • The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert Review by Elizabeth Ward

  • Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston Review by Carolyn See

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Interrogations at Noon by Dana Gioia Review by Susan Balee

  • Men Seeking Women: a Short-Story Anthology for the Digital Age
    Review by Carlin Romano

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Review by Ruth Rosen

  • The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve Review by Monica Wood

  • Afterimage by Helen Humphreys Review by Sarah Coleman

  • Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston Review by Roy Parvin

  • The Far Field by Edie Meidav Review by Emily Barton

    Chicago Tribune
  • Meteor in the Madhouse by Leon Forrest Review by Jeffrey Renard Allen

  • The Far Field by Edie Meidav
  • Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
    Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Afterimage by Helen Humphreys Review by Donna Seaman

    LA Times
    Discoveries
  • Honeymoon and Other Stories by Kevin Canty
  • The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner
  • Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    First Fiction
  • The Brutal Language of Love by Alicia Erian
  • Mouthing the Words by Camila Gibb
  • Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • The Last Report On the Miracles At Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich Review by Thomas Curwen

    Boston Globe
  • The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh Review by Anna Mundow

  • The Last Report On the Miracles At Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich Review by John Freeman

    Wednesday April 11, 2001
    New York Times
  • Beloved Stranger by Clare Boylan Review by Richard Eder

    Sunday April 8, 2001
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Last Report On The Miracles of Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg

  • The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert Review by Alida Becker

  • Electric Light by Seamus Heaney Review by Langdon Hammer

  • Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Review by Jennifer Reese

  • Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston Review by Bruce Barcott

    Washington Post Book World
  • This Is Not a Novel by David Markson Review by Michael Dirda

  • Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner Review by Mark Baechtel

  • A River Out of Eden by John Hockenberry Review by Bruce Barcott

  • Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult Review by Georgia Jones-Davis

  • Troublemaker and Other Saints by Christina Chiu Review by Todd Kliman

    Poetry:
  • The Shine Poems by Calvin Forbes
  • Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
  • Jungle Nights & Soda Fountain Rags by Brian Gilmore
    Review by Darryl Lorenzo

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich Review by Robin Beeman

  • Fixer Chao by Han Ong Review by John Freeman

  • Master of the Crossroads by Madison Smartt Bell Review by Kevin Berger

  • Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez Review by Irina Reyn

  • Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg Review by Katharine Mieszkowski

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer Review by Gwen Florio

  • Her Husband by Luigi Pirandello Review by Desmond Ryan

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes
  • Overnight Float by Clare Munnings
    Review by Ron Grossman

  • The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray Review by Jill Laurie Goodman

    LA Times
  • Monstruary by Julian Rios Review by Thomas McGonigle

    Discoveries:
  • Loverboy by Victoria Redel Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Friday April 6, 2001
    New York Times
  • The Last Report On the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Washington Post
  • Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez Review by Carolyn See

    Thursday April 5, 2001
    New York Times
  • Fixer Chao by Han Ong Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday April 1, 2001
    New York Times Book Review
  • Mr. Mee by Andrew Crumey Review by Hilary Mantel

  • To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury Review by James Shapiro

  • Lick Creek by Brad Kessler Review by Tobin Harshaw

    Books in Brief:
  • Girl Talk by Julianna Baggott Review by Elizabeth Judd

  • Fat Bald Jeff by Leslie Stella Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

  • Easy Silence by Angela Huth Review by Patrick Farrell

  • The Siege of Isfahan by Jean-Christophe Rufin Review by Paula Friedman

  • The Mind Game by Hector Macdonald Review by Emily White

  • This Is Not A Novel by David Markson Review by Laura Miller

    Washington Post Book World
  • Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe Review by Chris Lehmann

  • The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble Review by Wendy Smith

  • Karlmarx.com: A Love Story by Susan Coll Review by Lisa Zeidner

  • Spikes by Michael Griffith Review by John Greenya

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe Review by Jill Meyers

  • The Rights of Desire by Andre Brink Review by Jeff Galipeaux

  • Interrogations at Noon by Dana Gioia Review by Allan M. Jalon

  • Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
  • Undercurrents by Frances Fyfield
  • The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes by Marcel Theroux
    Review by David Lazarus

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Dreamcatcher by Stephen King Review by Donald Newlove

  • In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor Review by Justin Cronin

    Chicago Tribune
  • If 6 Were 9 by Jake Lamar Review by Natasha A. Tarpley

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett Review by Peter Wolfe

    LA Times
  • The Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge Review by Jonathan Levi

  • Turning On The Girls by Cheryl Benard Review by Naomi Glauberman

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