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

Sunday February 25, 2001
New York Times Book Review
  • Gabriel's Story by Dacid Anthony Durham Review by Maria Russo

  • Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes Review by Sven Birkerts

  • Everyday People by Stewart O'Nan Review by Stacey D'Erasmo

  • Demonology by Rick Moody Review by Walter Kirk

  • Rides of the Midway by Lee Durkee Review by Matthew Flamm

  • Father of the Four Passages by Lois-Ann Yamanaka Review by Jeff Waggoner

  • Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding Review by Maggie Galehouse

  • A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore Review by Louisa Kamps

  • Bone House by Betsy Tobin Review by Annette Kobak

    Books in Brief:
  • Gabriela's Book of Fire by Venero Armanno Review by Sudip Bose

  • Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple: Poems by Frances Chung Review by Michael Hainey

  • Blackberry Wine by Joanne Haris Review by Betsy Groban

  • Coming to Birth by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye Review by Erik Burns

  • Bad Timing by Megan Harlan Review by Betsy Berne

    Washington Post Book World
  • How All This Started by Pete Fromm Review by Claire Dederer

  • Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes Review by Frances Stead Sellers

  • The Music At Long Verney by Sylvia Townsend Warner Review by Michele Slung

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Singing Boy by Dennis McFarland Review by David Wiegand

  • Eclipse by John Banville Review by Daniel Blue

  • Woodcuts of Women by Dagoberto Gilb Review by Ocasr C. Villalon

    LA Times
    Discoveries:
  • A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
  • Singing Boy by Dennis McFarland
  • Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Chicago Tribune
  • Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman Review by Steven G. Kellman

  • Perfect Recall by Ann Beattie Review by Gina Franello

  • Eclipse by John Banville Review by Floyd Skloot

  • Equivocal Death by Amy Gutman Review by Amanda Vaill

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • A Painted House by John Grisham Review by Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

  • The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi Review by Marc Schogol

  • Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin Review by Maggie Galehouse

    Sunday February 18, 2001
    New York Times Book Review
  • Island: The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod Review by John Sutherland

  • Winter Journey by Isabel Colegate Review by Patricia T. O'Conner

  • The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan Review by Nancy Willard

  • Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin Review by Sylvia Brownrigg

  • Provinces of Night by William Gay Review by Art Winslow

  • Lili by Abigail De Witt Review by Valerie Martin

  • Mapping the Edge by Sarah Dunant Review by Michael Upchurch

    Books in Brief:
  • Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga by Caio Fernando Abreu Review by Jana Giles

  • A Dream of Wolves by Michael C. White Review by Erik Burns

  • The River Below by Francois Cheng Review by Philip Gambone

  • The Palace of Tears by Alev Lytle Croutier Review by Laura Winters

  • The Old Limey by H.W. Crocker III Review by Dante Ramos

    Washington Post Book World
  • Eclipse by John Banville Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • Ella in Bloom by Shelby Hearon Review by Carolyn See

  • Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin Review by Bart Schneider

  • Sweet Hearts by Melanie Rae Thon Review by Chris Bohjalian

  • Cape Breton Road by D.R. MacDonald
  • Greeting From the Golden State by Leslie Brenner
    Review by Ranald Totten

  • Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
  • The Road to Fez by Ruth Knafo
  • When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
  • Kinship Theory by Hester Kaplan
  • The Discovery of Chocolate by James Runcie
    Review by James Polk

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan Review by Danielle Svetcov

  • The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner Review by Brendan Bernhard

  • Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark Review by Pam Rosenthal

  • When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant Review by Sarah Coleman

  • The Torturer's Apprentice by John Biguenet Review by Jacob Molyneux

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan Review by Susan Balee

    Chicago Tribune
  • Here's To You, Jesusa by Elena Poniatowska Review by Sandra Scofield

    LA Times
  • The Bonesetters' Daughter by Amy Tan Review by Valerie Miner

    Thursday February 15, 2001
    New York Times
  • Demonology by Rick Moody Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday February 14, 2001
    New York Times
  • The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson Review by Richard Bernstein

    Sunday February 11, 2001
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh Review by Pankaj Mishra

  • The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Cassada by James Salter Review by D.T. Max

  • The Funeral Party by Ludmila Ulitskaya Review by M.G. Lord

  • The Rising Sun by Douglas Galbraith Review by Geoff Nicholson

  • A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay Review by Liza Featherstone

    Books in Brief:
  • A Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrenstein Review by James Polk

  • The Drifting of Spirits by Gisele Pineau Review by Anderson Tepper

  • Girlfriend 44 by Mark Barrowcliffe Review by Sia Michel

  • Ella in Bloom by Shelby Hearon Review by Elizabeth Judd

  • The Old American by Ernest Hebert Review by William Ferguson

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan Review by Nicole Mones

  • Breathing Room by Patricia Elam Review by Kit Reed

  • The Body Artist by Don DeLillo Review by Nina King

  • A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan Review by Jewell Parker Rhodes

  • Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Everyday People by Stewart O'Nan Review by Michael Maiello

  • A Painted House by John Grisham Review by Dennis Loy Johnson

  • Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes Review by Erin McGraw

  • Mangoes and Quince by Carol Field Review by Irina Reyn

  • Eddie and Bella by Wayne Wilson Review by Kyla Wazana

  • Loving Graham Greene by Gloria Emerson Review by Martin Rubin

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh Review by Steve Goldstein

  • The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Review by Micahel Harrington

    LA Times
  • The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh Review by Marina Budhos

  • Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes Review by Jonathan Levi

    Chicago Tribune
  • In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor
  • Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew
    Review by John Gregory Brown

  • The Torturer's Apprentice by John Biguenet Review by Jason Berry

    Thursday February 8, 2001
    New York Times
  • A Painted House by John Grisham Review by Janet Maslin

    Monday Febraury 5, 2001
    New York Times
  • Dirty Havan Triogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez Review by Richard Bernstein

    Sunday February 4, 2001
    New York Times
  • Sister India by Peggy Payne Review by Deborah Mason

  • The Body Artist by Don DeLillo Review by Adam Begley

  • Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst Review by Charles Wilson

  • Candyland by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain Review by Bruce DeSilva

  • The Beforelife: Poems by Franz Wright Review by Elizabeth Macklin

  • Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian Review by Richard Eder

  • The Torturer's Apprentice by John Biguenet Review by Katherine Wolff

    Books in Brief:
  • The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett Review by Brooke Allen

  • The Price You Pay: Stories by Ellen Winter Review by William Ferguson

  • A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh Review by Lynn Karpen

  • A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan Review by Ruth Coughlin

  • Shadowing Hannah by Sara Berkeley Review by Peter Khoury

    Washington Post Book World
  • Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan Review by Anderson Tepper

  • Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew Review by Peter Perl

  • The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez
  • Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrestein
  • A Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
  • The Journey Home by Olaf Olfasson
  • Music For the Third Ear by Susan Schwartz Senstad
    Review by Laura Beers

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding Review by Sarah Coleman

  • Father of Four Passages by Lois-Ann Yamanaka Review by Joelle Fraser

  • Call If You Need Me by Raymond Carver Review by Ken Foster

  • In Babylon by Marcel Moring Review by David Reid

  • Body and Soul by Sharon Doubiago Review by Jack Foley

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian Review by Laurie Kaplan

  • The Body Artist by Don DeLillo Review by Carlin Romano

  • A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly Review by Gwen Florio

  • True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Review by Peter Landry

    LA Times
  • The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke Review by Thomas M. Disch

  • The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Review by Shashi Tharoor

  • Master of the Crossroads by Madison Smartt Bell Review by Malick Ghachem

    First Fiction
  • Riders the Midway by Lee Durkee
  • Bone House by Betsy Tobin
  • Greeting From the Golden State by Leslie Brenner
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Chicago Tribune
  • Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner Review by Robin Hemley

  • The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt Review by Robert E. Hosmer

  • A Painted House by John Grisham
  • Wish You Well by David Baldacci
    Review by Chris Petrakos

  • The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke Review by Alan Cheuse

  • True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • A Painted House by John Grisham Review by Julie Failla Earhart

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