Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
April 2003

Sunday April 27, 2003
New York Times Book Review
  • Shadow Without a Name by Ignacio Padilla Review by Barry Unsworth

  • Middle Earth by Henri Cole Review by Maureen N. McLane

  • Good Faith by Jane Smiley Review by Paul Gray

  • Crabwalk by Gunter Grass Review by Jeremy Adler

  • The Navigation Log by Martin Corrick Review by Ruth Franklin

  • 101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason Review by Sam Lipsyte

  • Family History by Dani Shapiro Review by EMily White

  • On This Day by Nathaniel Bellows Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

    Washington Post Book World
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Review by Thomas M. Disch

  • Best Friends by Thomas Berger Review by Jeffrey Frank

  • Bay of Souls by Robert Stone Review by Neil Gordon

  • Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo Review by Rob Walker

  • A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies by John Murray Review by Tom Miller

  • The Light of Day by Graham Swift Review by Howard Norman

  • Shelter From the Storm by Michael Mewshaw Review by Caroilyn See

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret twood Review by David Kipen

  • Monkey in the Middle by Josh Pryor Review by Alex Dolan

  • The Lost Gold of San Francisco by Michale Castleman Review by Susan Parker

    Chicago Tribune
  • Good Faith by Jane Smiley Review by Jean Thompson

  • The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy Review by Caroline Leavitt

    LA Times
  • Good Faith by Jane Smiley Review by Jane Ciabattari

    First Fiction:
  • A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies by John Murray
  • Important Things That Don't Matter by David Amsden
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Newsday
  • Such Sweet Thunder by Vincent O. Carter Review by Gene Seymour

  • Stillness and Other Stories by Angela Brkic Review by John Freeman

    Thursday April 24, 2003
    New York Times
  • Crabwalk by Gunter Grass Review by Richard Eder

    Wednesday April 23, 2003
    LA Times
  • The Book of Salt by Monique Truong Review by Carmela Ciuraru

    Tuesday April 22, 2003
    LA Times
  • Waiting for April by Scott M. Morris Review by Bernadette Murphy

    Sunday April 20, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Actress in the House by Joseph McElroy Review by Sven Birkerts

  • The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
  • Ziff: A Life? by Alan Lelchuk Review by Claire Dederer

  • Morenga by Uwe Timm Review by Giles Foden

  • Such Sweet Thunder by Vincent O. Carter Review by Whitney Terrell

    Books in Brief: Poetry:
  • Far Side of the Earth by Tom Sleigh Review by David Orr

  • Otherhood by Regnald Shepherd Review by Matthew Flamm

  • Famous Americans by Loren Goodman Review by Carmela Ciuraru

  • Deposition by Katie Ford Review by Emily Nussbaum

  • Waxworks by Frieda Hughes Review by Ken Tucker

  • Alabanza by Martin Espada Review by Megan Harlan

  • A History of Color by Stanley Moss Review by J.T. Barbarese

    Washington Post Book World
  • Good Faith by Jane Smiley Review by Donald E. Westlake

  • All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Once Two Heroes by Calvin Baker Review by Lorenzo Wellington

  • Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff Review by Victor LaValle

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Bay of Souls by Robert Stone Review by David Kipen

  • Drift by Manuel Luis Martinez Review by Christopher Dreher

  • The Diary of an American Au Pair by Marjorie Leet Ford Review by Bharti Kirchner

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe Review by John Debaun


  • A Garden of Demons by Edward Hower Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; translated by W.S. Merwin Review by Karl Kirchwey

  • The Threee Miss Margarets by Louise Shaffer Review by Connie Ogle

    LA Times
  • Bay of Souls by Robert Stone Review by Amy Wilentz

  • Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe Review by Kai Maristed

    Thursday April 17, 2003
    Newsday
  • The Immortal Part by Christopher Wakling Review by Dan Cryer

    Sunday April 13, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned by Kinky Friedman Review by Fannie Flagg

  • Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo Review by Walter Kirn

  • The Coffee Trader by David Liss Review by Thomas Mallon

  • Soft Sift by Mark Ford Review by Albert Mobilio

  • The Deep; and Other Stories by Mary Swan Review by Andrea Barrett

  • A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories by John Murray Review by Michael Gorra

  • The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger Review by Kate Betts

    Washington Post Book World
  • Actress in the House by Joseph McElroy Review by Steven Moore

  • McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales; Edited by Michael Chabon Review by James Hynes

  • Trouble With Girls by Marshall Boswell Review by Gavin McNett

  • Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer Review by Marc Nesbitt

  • Loot by Nadine Gordimer Review by Jonathan Penner

  • August Frost by Monique Roffey Review by Elizabeth Manus

  • Drift by Manuel Luis Martinez
  • What Night Brings by Carla Trujillo
  • Gentlemen of Space by Ira Sher
  • Judge by Dwight Allen
    Review by Martha Bayne

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Crabwalk by Gunter Grass Review by Andrew Roe

  • Embrace by Mark Behr Review by Martin Rubin

  • THe Marriage of the Sea by Jane Alison Review by Kate Washington

  • Crescent by Diana Abu_jaber Review by Irina Reyn

  • Gilgamesh by Joan London Review by Selina O'Grady

  • Bump by Diana Wagman Review by Max Winter

  • I Am Not Jackson Pollock by John Haskell Review by Heller McAlpin

    Chicago Tribune
  • Bay of Souls by Robert Stone Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Finding Caruso by Kim Barnes Review by Keith Taylor
  • McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales Review by Peter Terzian

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Hunger by Elise Blackwell Review by Carlin Romano
  • The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill Review by Frank Wilson

    LA Times
  • Family History by Dani Shapiro Review by Heller McAlpin

    Friday April 11, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Pieces From Berlin by Michael Pye Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday April 6, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Heredity by Jenny Davidson Review by Gary Krist

  • Bay of Souls by Robert Stone Review by Norman Rush

  • The Book of Salt by Monique Truong Review by Christopher Benfy

  • Getting It Right by William F. Buckley Review by John B. Judis

  • The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late & New Poems by Charles Simic Review by David Orr

    Books in Brief:
  • Booneville by Robert Mailer Naderson Review by Mary Park

  • Evenings at Five by Gail Godwin Review by John Hartl

  • August Frost by Monique Raffey Review by Kate Bolick

  • Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss Review by Simon Leake

  • Jubilee King: Stories by Jesse Shepard Review by Adam Baer

  • The Boy On the Bus by Deborah Schupack Review by Matthew Flamm

    Washington Post Book World
  • Behindlings by Nicola Barker Review by keith Gessen

  • The Wife by Meg Wolitzer Review by Kera Bolonik

  • Property by Valerie Martin Review by Yxta Maya Murray

  • Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Review by Lloyd Rose

  • The Buzzing by Jim Knipfel Review by John Freeman

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill Review by Kera Bolonik

  • Red Ant House: Stories by Ann Cummins Review by Caroline Leavitt

  • The Adventures of a Bed Salesman by Michael Kumpfmuller Review by Danielle Svetcov

  • The Floating World by Cynthia Gralla Review by Stephen Lyons

  • Christopher by Allison Burnett Review by Andrew Ervin

    Chicago Tribune
  • All OVer Creation by Ruth Ozeki Review by Donna Seaman

  • The Cuban Prospect by Brian Shawwer
  • Ballpark Blues by C.W. Tooke Review by John Freeman

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Review

  • The King in the Tree by Steven Millhauser Review by Lionel Shriver

  • Starting From Sleep by Charles Martin Review by George Held

  • A Memory of War by Frederick Busch Review by Donald Newlove

    LA Times
  • Any Human Heart by William Boyd Review by Peter Green

    First Fiction:
  • Paperback Original by William Rhode
  • Red Ant House by Ann CUmmins
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • A Ship Made of Paper by SCott Spencer Review by Michael Harris

    Newsday
  • Wonder When You'll Miss Me by Amanda Davis Review by Bethany Schneider

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