Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
April 2002

Sunday April 28, 2002
New York Times Book Review
  • Emporium: Stories by Adam Johnson
  • My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories by Steve Almond
    Review by Claire Dederer

  • The Disappearing Body by David Grand Review by Will Blythe

  • Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee Review by Deborah Mason

  • The Illuminated Soul by Aryeh Lev Stollman Review by Nell Freudenberger

  • Red Dust by Gillian Slovo Review by Tony Eprile

  • Baroque-a-Nova by Kevin Chong Review by King Kaufman

    Books in Brief:
  • Notable American Women by Ben Marcus Review by Michael Porter

  • Kate Caterina by William Riviere Review by Marina Harss

  • Stay by Nicola Griffith Review by King Kaufman

  • All I Could Get by Scott Lasser Review by Adam Baer

  • Florida Poems by Campbell McGrath Review by Andy Brumer

  • Losing Gemma by Katy Gardner Review by Amy Benfer

    Washington Post Book World
  • Franklin Flyer by Nicholas Christopher Review by Glen David Gold

  • Blood of My Blood by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Review by Margo Hammond

  • The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer Review by Kate Lehrer

  • Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukerjee Review by Lee Siegel

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee Review by Ken Foster

  • The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer Review by John Freeman

  • Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson Review by Dave Eggers

  • Summerhouse, Later by Judith Hermann Review by Jesse Berrett

  • Glow in the Dark by Lisa Teasley Review by Jegg Galipeaux

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Red Poppies by Alai Review by Helen Mitsios

  • People Die by Kevin Wignall Review by Deen Kogan

  • Darkening Water by Daniel Hoffman Review by Michael Peich

  • In the Forest by Edna O'Brien Review by Laura Ciolkowski

    Chicago Tribune
  • Century's Son by Robert Boswell Review by Sandra Scofield

  • The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Think of England by Alice Elliott Dark Review by Brigitte Frase

  • Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan Review by E. William Smethurst

    LA Times
  • Video by Meera Nair Review by Marina Budhos

    First Fiction:
  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • The Haunting of L by Howard Norman Review by Jonathan Levi

    Discoveries:
  • Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe
  • The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson Review by Susan Slater Reynolds

    Tuesday April 23, 2002
    New York Times
  • Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Monday April 22, 2002
    New York Times
  • Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday April 21, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri Review by William Deresiewicz

  • The Haunting of L by Howard Norman Review by Stacey D'Erasmo

  • Springing: New and Selected Poems by Marie Ponsot Review by David Orr

  • Century's Son by Robert Boswell Review by Jonathan Dee

  • Summerhouse, Later: Stories by Judith Hermann Review by Melanie Rehak

  • Franklin Flyer by Nicholas Chirstopher Review by John Biguenet

  • Bear Me Safely Over by Sheri Joseph Review by Ann Powers

  • Unsing Heroes of American Industry by Mark Jude Poirer Review by Jeff Giles

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Book of Shadows by James Reese Review by Zofia Smardz

  • Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe Review by Roxana Robinson

  • Century's Son by Robert Boswell Review by Valerie Sayers

  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Review by Marie Arana

  • The House on Belle Isle: And Other Stories by Carrie Brown Review by Alice Elliott Dark

  • The Horned Man by James Lasdun Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga by Julia Whitty Review

  • The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone Review by Anneli Rufus

  • The Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman Review by Alan Cheuse

  • My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond Review by Drew Cherry

  • Leash by Jane DeLynn Review by James Piechota

  • Excessive Joy Injures the Heart by Elizabeth Harvor Review by Joanna Smith Rakoff

  • The Story of Our Lives by Mark Strand Review by Cunthia Haven

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • All I Could Get by Scott Lasser Review by John Freeman

  • Spies by Michael Frayn Review by David Walton

  • Breath in Every Room by Tami Haaland Review by Joel Weishaus

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini Review by William H. Pritchard

  • The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
  • The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
  • Stealing the Ambassador by Sameer Parekh
  • The Wedding by Imraan Coovadia
  • Video by Meera Nair
  • Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri
    Review by Vanessa Gezari

  • At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill Review by Robin Hemley

  • The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez by Jimmy Breslin Review by Elaine Rivera

    LA Times
  • Franklin Flyer by Nicholas Christopher Review by Michael Harris

  • Spies by Michael Frayn Review by Richard Zimler

  • Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri Review by Shashi Tharoor

    Thursday April 18, 2002
    New York Times
  • City of Bones by Michael Connelly Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday April 17, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Character of Rain by Amelie Nothomb Review by Richard Eder

    Tuesday April 16, 2002
    New York Times
  • Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday April 14, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • Everything's Eventual by Stephen King Review by Walter Kirn

  • Spies by Michael Frayn Review by Jennifer Schuessler

  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Review by Francine Prose

  • Sea Glass by Anita Shreve Review by David Willis McCullough

  • A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper Review by Jennifer Egan

  • Things That Fall From the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier Review by Hillary Frey

  • The Horned Man by James Lasdun Review by Emily Nussbaum

  • Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan Review by James Campbell

    Books in Brief: Poetry
  • The Painted Bed by Donald Hall Review by J.T. Barbarese

  • The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill Review by David Barber

  • Landscape With Human Figure by Rafael Campo Review by Eric McHenry

  • Shadow of Heaven by Ellen Bryant Voigt Review by Ken Tucker

  • The Evening Sun
    by David Lehman Review by Michael Hainey

  • Homesick by Roger Fanning Review by David Kirby

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Company by Robert Littell Review by Patrick Anderson

  • Spies by Michael Frayn Review by Alan Furst

  • Deep in the Shade of Paradise by John Dufresne Review by Curtis Sittenfeld

  • At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill Review by Trevor Butterworth

  • The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru Review by Carmela Ciuraru

  • The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Disappearing Body by David Grand Review by David Kipen

  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Review by David Wiegand

  • Emporium by Adam Johnson Review by Irina Reyn

  • Video by Meera Nair Review by Andrew Roe

  • Six Kinds of Sky by Luis Alberto Urrea Review by Dave DeChristopher

  • Real Times by Amir Chaudhuri Review by Fionn Meade

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Company by Robert Littell Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Casanova in Bohemia by Andrei Codrescu Review by Brian Bouldrey

  • Spies by Michael Frayn Review by Michael Upchurch

  • My Surburban Shtetl by Robert Rand Review by Tammie Bob

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Chameleon by Mark Burnell Review by Richard Fuller

  • Women Made of Sand by Joann Kobin Review by Michelle Reale

  • The Fall by J. Bottum Review by Frank Wilson

  • The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini Review by Richard Burgin

  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Review by Benjamin Austen

  • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by Ruth Rendell Review by Edna Stumpf

    LA Times
  • Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan Review by Caroline Fraser

  • Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett Review by Thomas Curwen

  • Journey By Moonlight by Antal Szerb Review by Lesley Chamberlain

    First Fiction:
  • 2182kHz by David Masiel
  • The Trouble With Catherine by Andres Hruby
  • The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me by Suzanne Kingsbury
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • My Mother's Island by Marnie Mueller Review by Adam Hill

  • The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian Review by Michael Harris

  • Anna in the Afterlife by Merrill Joan Gerber Review by Merle Rubin

  • Wild Ginger by Anchee Min Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet

    Thursday Apirl 11, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday April 10, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Haunting of L by Howard Norman Review by Richard Eder

    Tuesday April 9, 2002
    New York Times
  • Spies by Michael Frayn Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Monday April 8, 2002
    New York Times
  • Sea Glass by Anita Shreve Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday April 7, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • In the Forest by Edna O'Brien Review by Caleb Crain

  • The Return of the Caravels by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Michael Pye

  • The zygote Chronicles by Suzanne Finnamore Review by Katherine Dieckmann

  • Crustaceans by Andrew Cowan Review by Michael Upchurch

  • Looking for Chet Baker by Bill Moody Review by Gene Santoro

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley
  • The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Appleseed by John Clute
    Review by Gregory Feeley

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru Review by David Kipen

  • In the Forest by Edna O'Brien Review by Francie Lin

  • Edinburgh by Alexander Chee Review by David Wiegand

  • Wild Ginger by Anchee Min Review by Heller McAlpin

  • The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez by Jimmy Breslin Review by Tamara Straus

  • Interesting Women: Stories by Andrea Lee Review by Jane Ciabattari

    Chicago Tribune
  • Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe Review by Dan Cryer

  • The House on Belle Isle by Carrie Brown Review by Beth Lordan

    Philadelphia Inquierer
  • The Translator by John Crowley Review by Gregory Feeley

  • The Pupil by W.S. Merwin Review by Scott Edward Anderson

    LA Times
  • Never: Poems by Jorie Graham Review by John Palattella

  • Red Poppies by Alai Review by Isabel Hilton

  • The Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman Review by Yxta Maya Murray

  • The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini Review by Kai Maristed

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