Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
August 2009

Sunday August 30, 2009
New York Times
  • A Gate At the Stairs by Lorrie Moore Review by Jonathan Lethem

  • The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano Review by Wyatt Mason

  • Desert by J.M.G. Le Clezio Review by Elizabeth Hawes

  • A Village Life by Louise Gluck Review by William Logan

  • Get Real by Donald E. Westlake Review by Marilyn Stasio

  • The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Review by Jess Row

  • I'm So Happy For You by Lucinda Rosenfeld Review by Laurie Winer

  • Border Songs by Jim Lynch Review by Philipp Meyer

    Washington Post
  • A Gate At the Stairs by Lorrie Moore Review by Ron Charles

  • Vanished by Joseph Finder Review by Maureen Corrigan

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis Review by Joan Frank

    LA Times
  • The Children's Day by Michiel Heyns Review by Amy Wallen

  • A Village Life by Louise Gluck Review by Dana Goodyear

  • Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow Review by David L. Ulin

  • The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Review by Susan Slater Reynolds

  • Love and Summer by William Trevor Review by Nicholas Delbanco

  • Self's Murder by Bernhard SChlink Review by Tim Rutten

    Friday August 28, 2009
    New York Times
  • A Gate At the Stairs by Lorrie Moore Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday August 23, 2009
    New York Times Book Review
  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Review by Walter Kirn

  • The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin Review by Laurie Winer

  • Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens Reviewed by Helen Vendler

  • Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano Review by Neil Gordon

  • Erased by Jim Krusoe Review by John Haskell

  • Glover's Mistake by Nick Larid Review by Mark Sarvas

  • Strangers by Anita Brookner Review by Nancy Kline

  • Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon Review by Lucinda Rosenfeld

    Chronicle:
  • The Truth About Love by Josephine Hart
  • It's Beginning To Hurt by James Lasdun
  • Big Machine by Victor LaValle
  • Absent A Miracle by Christine Lehner
  • Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
    Review by Tom LeClair

  • South of Broad by Pat Conroy Review by Roy Hoffman

    Washington Post
  • Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon Review by Ron Charles

  • The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim Review by Sybil Steinberg

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Southern Cross by Skip Horack Review by Theo Schell-Lambert

  • Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan Review by Christine Thomas

    LA Times
  • Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon Review by Steve Almond

    Thursday August 20, 2009
    New York Times
  • Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday August 16, 2009
    New York Times Book Review
  • That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo Review by Roxana Robinson

  • This Is How by M.J. Hyland Review by Ericsa Wagner

  • To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright Review by David Gates

  • Far North by Marcel Theroux Review by Jeff Vandermeer

  • Four Freedoms by John Crowley Review by Max Byrd

  • Right of Thirst by Frank Huyler Review by Robert Hanks

  • The Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner Review by M.T. Anderson

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson Review by ROn Charles

  • Get Real by Donald E. Westlake Review by Michael Dirda

  • Shannon by Campbell McGrath Review by Brad Leithauser

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo Review by Geoff Nicholson

  • It Feels So Good When I Stop by Joe Pernice Review by Jacob Molyneux

    LA Times
  • This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper Review by Tod Goldberg

  • It's Beginning To Hurt: Stories by James Lasdun Review by Lizzie Skurnick

    Thursday August 13, 2009
    New York Times
  • This Is Where You I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper Review by Janet Maslin

    Monday August 10, 2009
    New York Times
  • That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday August 9, 2009
    New York Times Book Review
  • In the Kitchen by Monica Ali Review by William Grimes

  • Sunnyside by Glen David Gold Review by John Vernon

    Chronicle:
  • The Bridge of the Golden Horn by Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
  • Tongue by Kyung Ran Jo
  • Bone China by Roma Tearne
  • Been Here a Thousand Years by Mariolina Venezia
  • Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen
    Review by Alison McCulloch

    Washington Post
  • An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell Review by Ron Charles

  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Review by Michael Dirda

  • Labor Day by Joyce Maynard Review by Caroline Preston

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Labor Day by Joyce Maynard Review by Elizabeth Fishel

  • The Convsalescent by Jessica Anthony Review by Dewey Hammond

    Chicago Tribune
  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Review by Art Winslow

  • Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen Review by Conan Putnam

  • American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan Review by Dick Adler

  • The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Review by Adam Mansbach

    LA Times
    The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Review by Adam Mansbach

  • Undiscovered Girl by Allison Burnett Review by Veronique de Turenne

  • Labor Day by Joyce Maynard Review by Donna Rifkind

  • That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo Review by Heller McAlpin

  • American Adulterer by Jed Mercurio Review by Tim Rutten

    Tuesday August 4, 2009
    New York Times
  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Monday August 3, 2009
    New York Times
  • The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Review by Larry Rohter

    Sunday August 2, 2009
    New York Times Book Review
  • Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Review by Jonathan Mahler

  • Floodmarkers by Nic Brown Review by Joe Meno

  • The Signal by Ron Carlson Review by Jennifer Gilmore

  • Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just Review by Sven Birkerts

  • Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth Review by Robin Romm

    Poetry Chronicle:
  • The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin
  • Archicembalo by G.C. Waldrep
  • Tryst by Angie Estes
  • Selected Poems by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
    Review by Stephen Burt

    Washington Post
  • The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • Swimming by Nicola Keegan Review by Ron Charles

  • The Last Child by John Hart Review by Art Taylor

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Jericho's Fall by Stephen L. Carter Review by Martin Rubin

  • A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias Review by Meghan Ward

  • Beautiful As Yesterday by Fan Wu Review by Margot Kaminski

    Boston Globe
  • Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Review by Richard Eder

  • Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon Review by John Gregory Brown

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