Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
December 2003

Sunday December 28, 2003
New York Times Book Review
  • The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner Review by Catherine Lockerbie

  • The Sleeping Father by Matthew Sharpe Review by Claire Dederer

  • The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Robinson Review by Emily Nusbaum

  • The Stories of Richard Bausch
  • A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories by Ron Carlson
    Review by Sven Birkerts

    Books in Brief:
  • Ecstatic in the Poison: New Poems by Andrew Hudgins Review by Matthew Flamm

  • The Alibi Cafe and Other Stories by Mary Troy Review by James Polk

  • The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith Review by David Barber

  • The LIfe and Adventures of Lyle Clemens by John Rechy Review by Jeff Turrentine

  • The Great Husband Hunt by Laurie Graham Review by Sarah Ferguson

  • Sister North by Jim Kokoris Review by Sally Eckoff

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson Review by Barbara Quick

  • I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybek Review by Kate Washington

  • There Are Jews in My House by Lara Vapnyar Review by Julie Foster

  • Haymarket by Martin Duberman Review by Robert Walch

  • The Black Heralds by Cesar Vallejo Review by Diane Scharper

    Chicago Tribune
  • A Faker's Dozen by Melvin Bukiet Review by Laura Demanski

  • The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan Review by Dan Cryer

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Foiglman by Aharon Megged Review by Frank Wilson

    Sunday December 21, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • There Are Jews in My House by Lara Vapnyar Review by Boris Fishman

  • The Collected Stories by Benedict Kiely Review by Richard Eder

  • Pompeii by Robert Harris Review by Daniel Mendelsohn

  • Sepharad by Antonio Munoz Molina Review by Michael Pye

  • Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems by Franz Wright Review by Stephen Burt

  • The Arbogast Case by Thomas Hettche Review by Charles Wilson

  • The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier Review by Wendy Smith

    Washington Post Book World

  • Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud Review by Daryl Lorenzo Wellington

  • The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehosha Review by Elsbeth Lindner

  • Fanny by Edmund White Review by Alice K. Turner

  • Cleopatra Dismounts by Carment Boullosa Review by Elizabeth Hand

  • Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub Review by Douglas E. Winter

  • Deafening by Frances Itani Review by Masrk Baechtel

  • Oracle Night by Paul Auster Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Sepharad by Antonio Munoz Molina Review by Theofore Roszak

  • Oracle Night by Paul Auster Review by John Freeman

  • The Arbogast Case by Thomas Hettche Review by Kevin Smokler

  • Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi Review by Simon Read

  • Secrets of the City by Anne Roiphe Review by Linda Burnett

  • Other Sorrows, Other Joys by Janet Warner Review by Martin Rubin

  • Cleopara Dismounts by Carmen Boullosa Review by Olivia Boler

  • Scattered Crumbs by Muhsin Al-Ramli Review by Michael Standaert

  • The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer Review by Malena Watrous

  • Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson Review by Christine Thomas

    Chicago Tribune
  • Old School by Tobias Wolff Review by Molly McQuade

  • True Cross by T.R. Pearson Review by Michael Uphurch

  • How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer Review by Laura Demanski

  • Train by Pete Dexter Review by David J. Ulin

  • She is Me by Cathleen Schine Review by Kera Bolonik

    Thursday December 18, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier Review by Janet Maslin

    Monday December 15, 2003
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • By Sorrow's River by Larry McMurtry Review by Harry Levins

    Sunday December 14, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Everything Will Be All Right by Tessa Hadley Review by Alice Truax

  • Double Vision by Pat Barker Review by Neil Gordon


  • Sky High by Helen Falconer Review by Elizabeth Judd

  • No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook... by Edgardo Vega Yunque Review by Julia Livshin

    Books in Brief:
  • The Bride of Catastrophe by Heidi Jon Schmidt Review by Sarah Ferguson

  • Politics by Adam Thirlwell Review by John Hartl

  • The Ha-Ha: Poems by David Kirby Review by Andy Brumer

  • War Torn by John Marks Review by Dan Kaufman

  • Blood Canticle by Anne Rice Review by Ben Sisario

  • Dangerous Company by Peter Bart Review by Jeff Turrentine

    Washington Post Book World
  • Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve Review by Elizabeth Ward

  • Double Stitch by John Rolfe Gardiner Review by Carrie Brown

  • Old School by Tobias Wolff Review by Sven Birkerts

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard Review by Karen Heller

  • Street Hungry by Bill Kent Review by Marietta Dunn

  • Desire and Delusion: Three Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler Review by Frank Wilson

    Thursday December 11, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Scartlet Letters by Louis Auchincloss Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday December 10, 2003
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Pompeii by Robert Harris Review by Nancy Pate

    Sunday December 7, 2003
    New York Time Book Review
  • The Murder Room by P.D. James Review by Patricia T. O'Connor

  • By Sorrow's River by Larry McMurtry Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg

  • Rumpole and the Primrose Path by John Mortimer Review by Adam Liptak

  • Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud Review by Andrew Santella

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Scarlet Letters by Louis Auchincloss
  • Haymarket by Martin Duberman
  • The Taking by J.D. Landis
  • This Is My Voice by Jonathan Penner
  • Lita by Jevey Tervalon
    Review by Peter Franck

  • My Life As a Fake by Peter Carey Review by Thomas Mallon

  • The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer Review by Wendy Gimbel

  • The Murder Room by P.D. James Review by Laura Lippman

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Call Me the Breeze by Patrick McCabe Review by Whitney Pastorek

  • The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua Review by Matt King

  • Jail by Jesus Zarate Review by Irenen Wanner

  • Turing by Christos H. Papadimitriou Review by Sally Abbott

  • Love and Country by Christina Adam Review by Diane Molberg

  • The Legend of Fire Horse Woman by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Review by Jeanene Harlick

  • Eight Million Gods and Demons by Hiroko Sherwin Review by Allison Block

    Newsday
  • A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips Review by Robyn Creswell

    Tuesday December 2, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Murder Room by P.D. James Review by Janet Maslin

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