Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
December 2001

Sunday December 30, 2001
New York Times
  • Wild Blue Yonder by Jean Thompson Review by Lisa Zeidner

  • Nakedness, Death and the Number Zero by Brooks Haxton Review by Emily Nussbaum

  • Searching For Intruders by Stephen Raleigh Byler Review by Dwight Garner

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Argall by William T. Vollmann Review by Brad Vice

  • The Webster Chronicle by Daniel Akst Review by Andrew Roe

  • 4 by Pelevin by Victor Pelevin Review by John Freeman

  • Translated Accounts by James Kelman Review by John Freeman

    Chicago Tribune
  • Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald Review by Aleksandar Hemon

    LA Times
  • The Royal Physician's Visit by Per Olov Enquist Review by Jonathan Levi

  • The Jardin Des Plantes by Claude Simon Review by Thomas McGonigle

  • Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Newlson Review by Carol Muske Dukes

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • The Webster Chronicles by Daniel Akst Review by Steve Weinberg

  • Poems Seven by Alan Dugan Review by John Freeman

    Sunday December 23, 2001
    New York Times
  • The Rehearsal by Sarah Willis Review by James Polk

  • The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout Review by Adam Shatz

    Washington Post Book World
  • Sunday's Silence by Gina B. Nahai Review by Sudip Bose

  • The Webster Chronicle by Daniel Akst Review by Judy Goldman

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston Review by David Kipen

  • Nativity Poems by Joseph Brodsky Review by Cynthia L. Haven

  • The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte Review by Andrew Roe

  • Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriett Scott Chessman Review by Amy Benfer

  • The Appointment by Herta Muller Review by Steven G. Kellman

  • The Oasis by Petru Popescu Review by Joseph R. Garber

  • October Suite by Maxine Clair Review by Amy Benfer

  • The Measure of the World by Denis Guedj Review by P. Vogelpohl

    Chicago Tribune
  • Gone to Earth by Pam Rehm Review by Maureen McLane

    LA Times
    First Fiction:
  • Innocent in the House by Andy McSmith
  • A False Sense of Well Being by Jeanne Braselton
  • Last Year's River by Allen Morris Jones
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • Artists in Trouble by Aram Saroyan Review by Jonathan Kirsch

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Three to See the King by Magnus Mills Review by Steven Rea

  • Skipping Christmas by John Grisham Review by Martha Woodall

    Wednesday December 19, 2001
    New York Times
  • Nativity Poems by Joseph Brodsky Review by Richard Eder

    Sunday December 16, 2001
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Committee by Sunallah Ibrahim Review by Robert Irwin

  • Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan Review by Robert Pinsky

  • The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer Review by Andrew Sullivan

  • Fender Benders by Bill Fitzhugh Review by Gavin McNett

  • Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems by Agha Shahid Ali Review by Matthew Flamm

  • Samuel Johnson is Indignant: Stories by Lydia Davis Review by Albert Mobilio

    Washington Post Book World
  • Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro Review by Lorraine Adams

  • Phone Calls From the Dead by Wendy Brenner
  • The Book of Lost Fathers by Robley Wilson
    Review by Judy Doenges

    San Francisco Chroncicle
  • Angry Young Spaceman by Jim Munroe Review by John Freeman

  • Azarel by Karoly Pap Review by Jonathan Kiefer

  • For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez Review by Amy Benfer

    Chicago Tribune
  • Audubon's Watch by John Gregory Brown Review by Jason Berry

    LA Times
  • Fantazius Mallare by Ben Hecht Review by D.J. Carlile

  • I, the Divine by Rabih Alameddine Review by Gina B. Nahai

  • For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez Review by Thomas Curwen

    Boston Globe
  • Good Harbor by Anita Diamant Review by Karen Campbell

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus Review by Suzanne Rhodenbaugh

    Sunday December 9, 2001
    New York Times Book Review
  • Collected Stories by Saul Bellow Review by Paul Gray

  • Fire in the Rock by Joe Martin Review by Roy Hoffman

  • Guilty of Dancing the Chachacha by G. Cabrera Infante Review by Charles Wilson

  • From the Dust Returned: A Family Remembrance by Ray Bradbury Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

    Books in Brief:
  • The Long Marriage: Poems by Maxine Kumin Review by Megan Harlan

  • The King of Limbo and Other Stories by Adrianne Harun Review by Suzanne Berne

  • The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress: Stories by Michelle Richmond Review by Maggie Galehouse

  • Erased Faces by Graciela Limon Review by Jana Giles

  • Eager to Please by Julie Parsons Review by Elizabeth Judd

  • The Hole by Guy Burt Review by King Kaufman

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Rock by Kanan Makiya Review by James Reston

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Esther Stories by Peter Orner Review by David Kipen

  • Samuel Johnson is Indignant by Lydia Davis Review by Andrew Roe

  • The Yokota Officers Club by Sarah Bird Review by Brad Vice

  • My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Review by Sarah Coleman

  • The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret Review by Alan Kaufman

  • Requiem by Curtis White Review by Andrew Vervin

    LA Times
    First Fiction:
  • City of Dreams by Beverly Swerling
  • The Wedding by Imraan Coovadia
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • The Complete Works of Isaac Babel Review by James Salter

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Coming Soon by John Barth Review by Laurie Kaplan

    Boston Globe
  • Argall by William T. Vollmann Review by John Freeman

  • Collected Stories by Saul Bellow Review by Scott W. Hellman

  • The Wedding by Imraan Coovadia Review by Amanda Heller

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Old Men at Midnight by Chaim Potok Review by Dale Singer

    Sunday December 2, 2001
    New York Times Book Review
  • Leaving Disneyland by Alexander Parsons Review by Daphne Beal

  • Mary George of Allnorthover by Lavinia Greenlaw Review by James Polk

  • Bear V. Shark by Chris Bachelder Review by Scott Sutherland

  • New and Collected Poems by Czeslaw Milosz Review by Harvey Shapiro

  • Billancourt Tales by Nina Berbova Review by Michael Upchurch

  • Black Series: Poems by Laurie Sheck Review by Adam Kirsch

  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • The Officers Ward by Marc Dugain Review by David Willis McCullough

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • There to See the King by Magnus Mills Review by David Kipen

  • The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer Review by Carey Harrison

  • Lucky Us by Jona Silber Review by Megan Harlan

  • Intimacy and Midnight All Day by Hanif Kureishi
  • Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi
    Review by Anneli Rufus

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Devil's Larder by Jim Larder Review by Donna Seaman

  • How the Hula Girl Sings by Joe Meno Review by Robert Eisenberg

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Falls by Ian Rankin Review by Dan DeLuca

  • Poems: 1968-1998 by Paul Muldoon
  • A Short History of Snakes by Alan Jenkins
    Review by Jay Parini

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