Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
August 2007

Sunday August 26, 2007
New York Times Book Review
  • The King of Methlehem by Mark Lindquist Review by Nichlas Kulish

  • Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet Review by Francine Prose

  • Spook Country by William Gibson Review by Dave Itzkoff

  • The Bloodstone Papers by Glen Duncan Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton Review by Claire Dederer

  • Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff Review by Jonathan Ames

  • The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright Review by Jascha Hoffman

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Water Cure by Percival Everett Review by Jim Krusoe

  • Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Review by Wendy Smith

  • In Her Absence by Antonio Munoz Molina Review by Brigitte Weeks

  • Letter From Clear Point by Dennis McFarland Review by Caroline Preston

  • Heaven's Net is Wide by Lian Hearn Review by Elizabeth Ward

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Songs Without Words by Ann Packer Review by Heller McAlpin

    Chicago Tribune
  • Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet Review by Sarah F. Gold

  • Circadian by Joanna Klink
  • Riding Westrward by Carl Phillips
  • Littlefoot by Charles Wright
  • Earlier Poems by Franz Wright
    Review by Katie Peterson

    Boston Globe
  • Away by Amy Bloom Review by Elinor Lipman

    Monday August 20, 2007
    New York Times
  • Away by Amy Bloom Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday August 19, 2007
    New York Times Book Review
  • On the Road: Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac Review by Luc Sante

  • Poems From Guantanamo: Edited by Marc Falkoff Review by Dan Chiasson

  • Crossing the Sierra de Gredos by Peter Handke Review by Neil Gordon

    Chronicle:
  • Ravel by Jean Echenoz
  • The Complete Stories by David Malouf
  • The Assistant by Robert Walser
  • The Worst Intentions by Alessandro Piperno
  • Satisfaction by Gillian Greenwood
    Review by Alison McCulloch

  • Dangerous Admissions by Jane O'Connor Review by Chelsea Cain

  • Power Play by Joseph Finder Review by Julia Scheeres

  • Five Skies by Ron Carlson Review by Tom Barbash

    Washington Post Book World
  • Immigrant Blues by Amy Bloom Review by Ron Charles

  • The Cleft by Doris Lessing Review by Elizabeth Bear

  • The Assassin's Song by M.G. Vassanji Review by Rabindranath Maharaj

  • Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Review by Meg Wolitzer

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Bloodstone Papers by Glen Duncan Review by Reagan Upshaw

  • The Queens of K-Town by Angela Mi Young Hur Review by Anne Julia Wyman

    Boston Globe
  • My Mother's Lovers by Christopher Hope Review by Richard Eder

  • Soul Catcher by Michael White
  • The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright
  • The Mapmaker's Opera by Bea Gonzalez
    Review by Anna Mundow

    August 18, 2007
    Chicago Tribune
  • Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Review by Frank Wilson

    Friday August 17, 2007
  • The Intruders by Michael Marshall
  • Power Play by Joseph Finder Review by Janet Maslin

    Thursday August 16, 2007
    New York Times
  • The Bloodstone Papers by Glen Duncan Review by Dinitia Smith

    Sunday August 12, 2007
    New York Times Book Review
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling Review by Christopher Hitchens

  • The Headmaster Ritual by Taylor Antrim Review by Darin Strauss

  • Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert Review by Kathryn Harrison

  • Flower Children by Maxine Swann Review by Lydia Millet

  • Love Without: Stories by Jerry Stahl Review by Tom Shone

  • A Hatred For Tulips by Richard Lourie Review by Elena Lappin

    Washington Post Book World
  • A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent Review by Stephen Amidon

  • Anything for Jane by Cheryl Mendelson Review by Sarah L. Courteau

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Review by Orene Wanner

  • What You Call Winter by Nalini Jones Review by Meghan Ward

  • Lottery by Patricia Wood Review by Anna North

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Guardians by Ana Castillo Review by Donna Seaman

  • Consumption by Kevin Patterson Review by Laura Ciolkowski

  • The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer Review by Alan Cheuse

    Boston Globe
  • Letter from Point Clear by Dennis McFarland Review by Gail Caldwell

  • The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman Review by Madison Smartt Bell

    Tuesday August 7, 2007
    New York Times
  • Before by Irini Spanidou Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday August 5, 2007
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
  • Sunstroke and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
    Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer Review by Claire Messud

  • Tom Bedlam by George Hagen Review by Terrence Rafferty

  • The Bestiary by Nicholas Christopher Review by Ligaya Mishan

  • To My Dearest Friends by Patrica Volk Review by Ann Hodgman

    Chronicle:
  • Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy Schaffert
  • Who is Lou Sciortino by Ottavio Cappellani
  • The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Munoz
  • The Folded World by Amity Gaige
  • Thoreau's Laundry: Stories by Ann Harleman Review by Jeff Turrentine

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Scandal of the Season by Sophie Gee Review by Ron Charles

  • The Girl With the Golden Shoes by Colin Channer Review by Tina McElroy

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Vivaldi's Virgins by Barbara Quick Review by Malena Watrous

  • My Dreams Out in the Street by Kim Addonizio Review by Kim Hedges

  • Shining at the Bottom of the Sea by Stephen Marche Review by Debra Spark

  • Strawberry Fields by Marina Lewycka Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky

  • Crossing the Sierra de Gredos by Peter Handke Review by Christopher Boyd

  • The Complete Stories by David Malouf Review by David Hellman

    Boston Globe
  • The Empress of Weehawken by Irene Dische Review by Gail Caldwell

    Saturday August 4, 2007
    Chicago Tribune
  • Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Review by Jessica Treadway

  • The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright Review by Tim Rutten

  • The Cleft by Doris Lessing Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Up High in the Trees by Kiara Brinkman Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

  • Filibuster to Delay a Kiss by Courtney Queeney Review by Katie Peterson

    Boston Globe
  • Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Review by Chuck Leddy

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