Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
August 2005

Sunday August 28, 2005
New York Times Book Review
  • Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel Review by Jay McInerney

  • The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford Review by Chelsea Cain

  • Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet Review by Susannah Meadows

  • Carnivore Diet by Julia Slavin Review by Lisa Zeidner

    Washington Post Book World
  • A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards by Ann Bauer Review by Carrie Brown

  • The English Teacher by Lily King Review by Ron Charles

  • Trophy House by Anne Bernay
  • Haarlem by Heather Neff
  • Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio
    Review by Susan Adams

  • Fan-Tan by Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell Review by Louis Bayard

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • An Atomic Romance by Bobbie Ann Mason Review by Reagan Upshaw

  • Into It
  • Codes, Precepts, Biases and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993 by Lawrence Joseph
    Review by Allan M. Jalon

    Chicago Tribune
  • A Wild Ride Up The Cupboards by Ann Bauer
  • High Plains Tango by Robert James Waller
  • Trophy House by Anne Bernays
  • The Testing of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Bezos
  • Whatever Makes You Happy by Lisa Grunwald
    Review by Jane Ciabattari

  • The Washington Story by Adam Langer Review by Samuel G. Freedman

  • Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis Review by Steven Zeitchik

    Boston Globe
  • An Atomic Romance by Bobbie Ann Mason Review by Gail Caldwell

  • Canaan's Tongue by John Wray Review by Roberta Silman

    LA Times
  • Wounded by Percival Everett Review by Jonathan Kirsch

  • The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel Review by Thane Rosenbaum

  • Incendiary by Chris Cleave Review by Richard Eder

  • Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin Review by Nick Owchar

  • Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

  • A Rabbit's Eyes by Kenjiro Haitani Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Thursday August 25, 2005
    New York Times
  • The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante Review by Janet Maslin

    Tuesday August 23, 2005
    New York Times
  • Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday August 21, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment Review by Christopher Benfy

  • Nora Jane by Ellen Gilchrist Review by Suzy Hansen

  • Legends by Robert Littell Review by Neil Gordon

  • Incendiary by Chris Cleave Review by Ian Sansom

  • Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender Review by Joy Press

  • Dog by Michelle Herman Review by Bruce Weber

    Fiction Chronicle:
  • Here is Where We Meet by John Berger
  • Spies by Marcel Beyer
  • Big Cats: Stories by Holiday Reinhorn
  • Brain Work: Stories by Michael Guista
  • Talking to the Enemy: Stories by Avner Mandelman
  • Novel by George Singleton
    Review by Priya Jain

    Washington Post Book World
  • Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis Review by Elizabeth Hand

  • In the Province of Saints by Thomas O'Malley Review by Ron Charles

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio Review by Chelsea Rathburn

  • The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel Review by Steve Kettmann

  • The Kings of Kings County by Whitney Terrell Review by Edward Hower

  • A Mouth Like Yours by Daniel Duane Review by Jesse Berrett

  • The Prophet of Zongo Street by Mohammed Naseehu Ali Review by Chris Abani

  • The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment Review by Jami Attenberg

  • Trance by Christopher Sorrentino Review by Robert Brinbaum

  • Crawl Space by Edie Meidav Review by Timothy Peters

    Chicago Tribune
  • A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher Review by Art Winslow

  • We're All In This Together by Owen King Review by Carole Goldberg

    Boston Globe
  • Maps For Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam Review by Laura Ciolkowski

  • Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender Review by Gail Caldwell

  • Nora Jane by Ellen Gilchrist Review by Jessica Treadway

    LA Times
  • The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison Review by Jane Ciabattari

    First Fiction:
  • A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
  • Big Cats by Holiday Reinhorn
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Wednesday August 17, 2005
    Boston Globe
  • The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison Review by Julie Wittes Schlack

    Monday August 15, 2005
    New York Times
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday August 14, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis Review by A.O. Scott

  • The Good Priest's Son by Reynolds Price Review by Claire Messud

  • The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories by Mohammed Naseehu Ali Review by Elizabeth Schmidt

    Fiction Chronicle:
  • Man Camp by Adrienne Brodeur
  • Sky Burial by Zinran
  • Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj
  • The Hill Road by Patrick O'Keefe
  • The River House by Margaret Leroy
  • Kingston by Starlight by Christopher John Farley
    Review by Ada Calhoun

  • No Direction Home by Marisa Silver Review by Elizabeth McKenzie

  • Crawl Space by Edie Meidav Review by Sam Munson

  • Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin Review by Dan Chiasson

    Washington Post Book World
  • Kingston by Starlight by Christopher John Farley Review by Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Dying Light and Other Stories by Donald Hays Review by Rodney Welch

  • The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell Review by Ron Charles

  • The Music of the Mill by Luis J. Rodriguez Review by Neely Tucker

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender Review by Buzz Poole

  • Incendiary by Chris Cleave Review by Tamara Straus

  • Nobody's Baby and Other Stories by Leo Litwak Review by Stephen J. Lyons

  • The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison Review by Heller McAlpin

  • Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis Review by Christine Thomas

    Boston Globe
  • North by Frederick Busch Review by Siddhartha Deb

  • Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis Review by Steve Almond

    LA Times
  • Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender Review by Diana Wagman

  • Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah Review by Richard Eder

    Monday August 1, 2005
    LA Times
  • The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories by Mohammed Naseehu Ali Review by Merle Rubin

    Sunday August 7, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories by Richard Stern Review by Eric Weinberger

  • The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison Review by Jean Thompson

  • Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link Review by Michael Knight

  • The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer
  • The Starter Marriage by Kate Harrison
    Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • Flying at Night: Poems by Ted Kooser Review by Brad Leithauser

  • The Testing of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Bezos Review by Kae Bolick

  • Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie Review by Christopher Atamain

  • Hide & Seek by Clare Sambrook Review by Terrence Rafferty

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Almond by Nedjima Review by Lorraine Adams

  • Naphtalene by Alia Mamdouh Review by Theola S. Labbe

  • The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel Review by Merle Rubin

  • Blue Beyond Blue by Lauren Slater Review by Deborah Sussman

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • When It Burned to the Ground by Yolanda Barnes Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky

  • The Testing of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Bezos Review by Debra Spark

  • Their Magician and Other Stories by Gloria Kurian Broder Review by Matt Konrad

  • God Jr. by Dennis Cooper Review by Casey McKinney

  • In Perfect Light by Benjamin Alire Saenz Review by Marcela Valdes

  • Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler Review by Theodore Roszak

    Boston Globe
  • Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin Review by Sandra Shea

  • The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe Review by Anna Mundlow

  • Something Blue by Emily Giffin
  • The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer
  • Nine Wives by Dan Elish
    Review by Tracy Quan

    LA Times
  • Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio Review by Regina Marler

  • The Other Shulman by Alan Zweibel Review by Marc Weingarten

  • Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage Review by Paula L. Woods

    First Fiction:
  • The Loss of Leon Meed by Josh Emmons Review by Mark Rozzo


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