Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
April 2006

Sunday April 30, 2006
New York Times Book Review
  • Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart Review by Walter Kirn

  • Adverbs by Daniel Handler Review by James Poniewozik

  • Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr
  • Saving Daylight by Jim Harrison
    Review by David Kirby

  • High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Cathleen Schine

    Chronicle:
  • Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen
  • The Lightning Keeper by Starling Lawrence
  • The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
  • We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
  • Once Upon a Day by Lisa Tucker
    Review by Gregory Cowles

  • The Big Why by Michael Winter Review by Ben Markovits

    Washington Post Book World
  • Sigging to America by Anne Tyler Review by Ron Charles

  • The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra
  • The Priest's Madonna by Amy Hassinger
    Review by Brigitte Weeks

  • The Things They Carried by Julia Alvarez Review by Diana Gabaldon

  • Genealogy by Maud Casey Review by Louisa Thomas

  • Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein Review by Elinor Lipman

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Come Together, Fall Apart by Christina Henriquez Review by June Sawyers

  • In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders Review by Charles May

  • Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen Review by Amy Johnson

  • The Unsettling Stories by Peter Rock Review by Christopher Bernard

    Boston Globe
  • Suite Francaise by Irene Nermirovsky Review by Susan Rubin Suleiman

  • Everyman by Philip Roth Review by Gail Caldwell

    Wednesday April 26, 2006
    New York Times
  • Everyman by Philip Roth Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Boston Globe
  • Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein Review by Julie Wittes Schlack

    Tuesday April 25, 2006
    New York Times
  • Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday April 23, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow Review by Jason Goodwin

  • The Near Future by Joe Ashby Porter Review by David Kirby

    Poetry Chronicle:
  • Black Lab by David Young
  • Look There by Agi Michol
  • Hapax by A.E. Stallings
  • Astoria by Malena Morling
  • Capacity by James McMichael
  • Strike/Slip by Don McKay
  • Hometown for An Hour by Jennifer Rose
  • Poem for the End of Time by Noelle Kocot
  • Living Things by Anne Porter
  • The First Inhabitants of Arcadia by Christopher Bursk
    Review by Eric McHenry and Joel Brouwer

  • Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein Review by Caryn James

  • The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner Review by Mark Schone

  • The Edge of Pleasure by Philippa Stockley Review by Chelsea Cain

  • Saving the World by Julia Alvarez Review by Hillary Frey

  • Philosophy Made Simple by Robert Hellenga Review by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

    Washington Post Book World
  • Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden Review by Rosalyn Stony

  • This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes Review by Ron Charles

  • English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes Review by Ann Cummins

  • Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley Review by Meredith Broussard

  • East Wind, Rain by Caroline Paul Review by Linda Burnett

  • Challenger Park by Stephen Harrigan Review by Edward Nawotka

  • The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy Review by Cynthia L. Haven

    Chicago Tribune
  • We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg Review by Sharon Pomerantz

    Boston Globe
  • This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes Review by Gail Caldwell

  • The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner Review by Steve Almond

    Sunday April 16, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Oxford Book of American Poetry: Edited by David Lehman Review by William Logan

  • Duches of Nothing by Heather McGowan Review by Ligaya Mishan

  • Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Review by Nell Freudenberger

  • Halfway House by Katharine Noel Review by Taylor Antrim

  • Whiteman by Tony D'Souza Review by Wyatt Mason

    Washington Post Book World
  • White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Donald Hall Review by Billy Collins

  • Dark Wild Realm by Michael Collier Review by Frances Phillips

  • Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey Review by Darryl Lorenzo

  • Dreaming the End of the War by Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Making Peace by Denise Levertov
  • A Cartography of Peace by Jean L. Connor
    Review by Rafael Campo

  • Poems by Mary Karr Review by Judith Kitchen

  • District and Circle by Seamus Heaney Review by Anthony Cuda

  • Parallel Play: Poems by Stephen Burt Review by Jennifer Grotz

  • The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio Review by Alan Cheuse
  • In the Wilderness by Manuel Rivas Review by Tim Kindseth
  • The Wonder House by Justine Hardy Review by Elizabeth Kiem
  • Book of Sketches by Jack Kerouac Review by John Freeman

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Lightning Keeper by Starling Lawrence Review by Kathleen Cambor

    Boston Globe
  • The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
  • Brandenburg Gate by Henry Porter
  • Chiefs by Stuart Woods
    Review by Ana Mundow
  • My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman Review by Saul Austerlitz

    Friday April 14, 2006
    New York Times
  • This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Holmes Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday April 9, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Review by Paul Gray

  • Challenger Park by Stephen Harrigan Review by Thomas Mallon

  • My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • Seeing by Jose Saramago Review by Terrence Rafferty

  • The Messiah of Morris Avenue by Tony Hendra Review by James Campbell

  • Brookland by Emily Barton Review by Christopher Corbett

  • On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay by Robert Creeley Review by D.H. Tracy

  • Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach Review by Eve Conant

  • Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar Review by Ken Kalfus

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Royal Ghosts: Stories by Samrat Upadhyay Review by Wendy Law-Yone

  • My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman Review by Fay Weldon

  • Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Review by Ron Charles

  • The Minotaur by Barbara Vine Review by Dannis Drabelle

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Review by David Hellman

  • Dutchess of Nothing by Heather McGowan Review by Scott Esposito

  • Dragging the Lake: Poems by Robert Thomas Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky

  • High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Alan Cheuse

  • It's Kind of a Funny Story by New Vizzini Review by Jennie Yabroff

    Chicago Tribune
  • Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Review by Art Winslow

  • Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Blue Water by A. Manette Ansay Review by Jessica Treadway

  • My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman Review by Francesca Delbanco

    Boston Globe
  • The Night Watch by Sarah Waters Review by Denise Mina

    Friday April 7, 2006
    New York Times
  • The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday April 2, 2006
    New York Times Book Review
  • Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whithead Review by David Gates

  • Doctors & Nurses by Lucy Ellmann Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • The Book About Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist Review by Francine Prose

  • The Last Supper by Charles McCarry Review by Jacob Heilbrun

  • Brecht's Mistress by Jacques-Pierre Amette Review by Neil Gordon

  • Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box by Elizabeth Bishop Review by David Orr

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai Review by Donna Rifkind

  • A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore Review by Paul Di Filippo

  • Challenger Park by Stephen Harrigan Review by Ron Charles

  • The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier Review by Andrew Sean Greer

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Theater of Night by Albert Rios Review by Joy Lanzendorfer

  • Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar Review by Malena Watrous

    Chicago Tribune
  • Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar Review by Laura Ciolkowski

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Review by Mary Harris Russell

  • Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead Review by Beth Kephart


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