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

Sunday August 25, 2002
New York Times Book Review
  • The Metal Shredders by Nancy Zafris Review by Ken Kalfus

  • Blood of Victory by Alan Furst Review by Neil Gordon

  • Inflating the Dog by Eric Kraft Review by Jennifer Reese

  • The Judges by Elie Wiesel Review by Robert Leiter

  • A Conversation with the Mann by John Ridley Review by Jonathan Mahler

  • Savage Run by C.J. Box Review by Charles Wilson

    Books in Brief:
  • House Under Snow by Jill Bialosky Review by Michael Porter

  • The Trolley by Claude Simon Review by Elizabeth Judd

  • I by Stephen Dixon Review by Adam Baer

  • Looking For Mary Gabriel by Carole Lawrence Review by Nicole LaPorte

  • The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford Review by Erik Burns

  • Small Accidents by Andrew Gray Review by Taylor Antrim

  • Cheese by Willem Elsschot Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss Review by Jon Fasman

  • The Boxer by Jurek Becker Review by Joshua Beckman

  • Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill Review by Todd Pruzan

  • Sheepshagger by Niall Griffiths Review by James Buchan

  • All I Could Get by Scott Lasser
  • Big If by Mark Costello
  • Quattrocento by James McKean
  • Paradise Bay by Jack Santos
    Review by Deborah Kalb

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Husband and Wife by Zeruya Shalev Review by Sarah Coleman

  • The Virgin's Knot by Holly Payne Review by Jeanne Cooper

  • Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio

  • The Wasties by Frederick Reuss Review by Kate Washington

  • The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda Review by jane Ciabattari

  • The Origin of the World by Pierre Michon Review by Regan McMahon

  • Swallow by Miranda Field Review by Joel Weishaus

  • Echoes of a Distant Summer by Guy Johnson Review by Anneli Rufus

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Judges by Elie Wiesel Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss Review by Dan Santow

  • Pasadena by David Ebershoff Review by Raphael Kadushin

  • The Staggerford Flood by Jon Hassler Review by Keith Taylor

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Food Taster by Ugo DiFonte Review by Gerald Etter

    LA Times
  • The Boxer by Jurek Becker Review by Merle Rubin

  • After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Review by Review by Michael Harris

    Tuesday August 20, 2002
    New York Times
  • After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday August 18, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Review by Jeff Giles

  • The Dead Circus by John Kaye Review by Stephanie Zacharek

  • The Egg Code by Mike Heppner Review by Scott McLemee

  • The Fruit of Stone by Mark Spragg Review by Jonathan Miles

    Washington Post Book world
  • Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy Review by Patrick Anderson

  • Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg Review by Zofia Smardz

  • Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke Review by Jennifer Howard

  • A Thing (Or Two) About Curtis and Camilla by Nick Fowler Review by Gavin McNett

  • True to Form by Elizabeth Berg Review by Jane Ciabattari

  • Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones Review by Michael Skube

  • Five Boys by Mick Jackson Review by Paul West

  • Music of a Life by Andrei Makine Review by Sven Birkerts

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Music of a Life by Andrei Makine Review by Heller McAlpin

  • More Than Enough by John Fulton Review by Daniel Drew TUrner

  • Bending Heaven by Jessica Francis Kane Review by Eliza Wilmerding

  • Inflating a Dog by Eric Kraft Review by Andrew Ervin

  • The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass Review by Drew Cherry

  • The Beholder by Thomas Farber Review by Irina Reyn

    Chicago Tribune
  • That's True of Everybody by Mark Winegardner Review by John Freeman

  • Women About Town by Laura Jacobs Review by Ariella Budick

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill Review by Frank Wilson

  • The Whore's Chld by Richard Russo Review by Donald Newlove

    LA Times
  • Music of a Life by Andrei Makine Review by Peter Green

  • A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright Review by Langdon Hammer

  • Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg Review by Michael Harris

    First Fiction:
  • The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson
    The Frog King by Adam Davies
    The Color Midnight Made by Andrew Winer
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Discoveries:
  • Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg
  • Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Friday August 16, 2002
    New York Times
  • Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke Review by Caryn James

    Sunday August 11, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg Review by Ellen Feldman

  • The Ringer by Bill Scheft Review by Joe Queenan

  • The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
  • Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda
    Review by Tony Eprile

  • The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy Review by Suzanne Berne

  • The Girl From the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer Review by Nell Freudenberger

  • Drastic: Stories by Maud Casey Review by Claire Dederer

  • The Man Who Rode Ampersand by Ferdinand Mount Review by Brooke Allen

    Books in Brief:
  • My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper Review by Charles Wilson

  • The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body by Alberto Rios Review by Ken Tucker

  • Oyster by John Biguenet Review by Erik Burns

  • Laugh Track by David Galef Review by Aoibheann Sweeney

  • Amber Necklace From Gdansk: Poems by Linda Nemec Foster Review by Eric McHenry

  • Suicide's Girlfriend by Elizabeth Evans Review by John Hartl

    Washington Post Book World
  • Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass Review by Claire Dederer

  • The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg Review by Alan Furst

  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Review by Maria Russo

  • Collected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
    and Rafael Albert; Songs From the Quecha
    Review by Rafael Campo

  • Peter Loon by Van Reid Review by Richard Grant

  • Versailles by Kathryn Davis Review by David Guy

  • Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake by james McCourt Review by Robert Girardi

  • The Sands of Pride by William R. Trotter Review by Mark A. Bradley

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare Review by David Kipen

  • Versailles by Kathryn Davis Review by Kera Bolonik

  • Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto Review by Jennie Yabroff

  • Suicide's Girlfriend by Elizabeth Evans Review by Mark Luce

  • The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein Review by Danielle Svetcov

  • The Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Review by Tom Nolan

    Chicago Tribune
  • Prague by Arthur Philips Review by Aleksander Hemon

  • China Dog by Judy Fong Bates Review by WenHuang

  • Emporium by Adam Johnson Review by Laura Demanski

  • Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester Review by Dan Cryer

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke Review by Christine Thomas

  • Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell Review by Susan Balee

  • The Scar by China Mieville Review by John R. Alden

  • Khalifah by John Elray Review by Eileen O'Donnell

    LA Times
  • Versailles by Kathryn Davis Review by Katherine Weber

    Sunday August 4, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • The White by Deborah Larsen Review by Lvinia Greenlaw

  • The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss Review by Malcolm Jones

  • Versailles by Kathryn Davis Review by Stacey D'Erasmo

  • Camouflage: Stories by Murray Bail Review by Danielk Zalewski

  • Fierce People by Dirk Wittenborn Review by Jacqueline Carey

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Color Midnight Made by Andrew Winer Review by Susan Straight

  • Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell Review by John Strausbaugh

  • Noble Norfleet by Reynolds Price Review by Micahel Anft

  • River Thieves by Michael Crummey Review by Judith Freeman

  • The Whore's Child by Richard Russo Review by Frances Stead Sellers

  • The White by Deborah Larsen Review by Michael Kernan

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington Review by Miriam Wolf

  • House Under Snow by Jill Bialosky Review by Drew Cherry

  • In the Middle of All This by Fred G. Leebron Review by Andrew Roe

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Springing: New and Selected Poems by Marie Poonsot Review by Gregory Feeley

  • The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford Review by Roger Gathman

  • A Wild People by Hugh Leonard Review by Christine Thomas

    LA Times
    Discoveries:
  • The Beholder by Thomas Farber Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    First Fiction:
  • Sasso by James Sturz
  • The Art of Seeing by Cammie McGovern
  • Tempting Faith Dinapoli by Lisa Gabriele
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • The Man Who Rode by Ferdinand Mount Review by Michael Harris

  • Passing by Nella Larsen Review by Brooke Kroeger

  • The Girl From the Coast by Pramoedya Anantz Toer Review by Jamie James

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