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

Friday February 28, 2003
New York Times
  • The King in the Tree by Steven Millhauser Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Thursday February 27, 2003
    New York Times
  • Soul Circus by George P. Pelecanos Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday February 23, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Heaven's Edge by Romesh Gunesekera Review by Akash Kapur

  • Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle Review by Dwight Garner

  • Property by Valerie Martin Review by Kathryn Harrison

  • Little Infamies by Panos Karnezis Review by Michael Upchurch

  • When the Messenger is Hot by Elizabeth Crane Review by Jennifer Reese

  • Eden by Olympia Vernon Review by Ann Powers

  • In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone Review by Melanie Rehak

    Books in Brief:
  • Green Grass Grace by Shawn McBride Review by Benjamin Swett

  • More Like Wrestling by Danyel Smith Review by Tim Appelo

  • Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B.H. Fairchild Review by Michael Hainey

  • Country of Cold by Kevin Patterson Review by Matthew Flamm

  • Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan Review by Kerry Fried

  • The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera Review by Alix Wilber

    Washington Post Book World
  • My Last Movie Star by Martha Sherrill Review by Christine Spines

  • Great Neck by Jany Cantor Review by Dennis Drabelle

  • The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich Review by Zofia Smardz

  • Abandon by Pico Iyer Review by Robert Irwin

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus Review by David Kipen

  • More Like Wrestling by Danyel Smith Review by Laura Fraser

  • Repetition by Alain Robbe-Grillet Review by Heller McAlpin

  • Miss Corpus by Clay McLeod Chapman Review by Aparna Sreenivasan

  • Everybody's Somebody's Fool by Ed Gorman Review by Tom Nolan

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh Review by Carole Goldberg

  • The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus Review by John Freeman

    LA Times
  • Drop City by T.C. Boyle Review by Michael Harris

  • The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers Review by Lee Siegel

  • Abandon by Pico Ayer Review by Jeff Turrentine

    First Fiction:
  • A Winter Marriage by Kerry Hardie
  • The Snowman's Children by Glen Hirshberg
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Newsday
  • The Hills At Home by Nancy Clark Review by Polly Shulman

    Sunday February 16, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Jennifer Government by Max Barry Review by Rob Walker

  • Any Human Heart by William Boyd Review by Richard Eder

  • Clara by Janice Galloway Review by Stacy Schiff

  • A Memory of War by Frederick Busch Review by Bruce Bawer

  • I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti Review by Lawrence Venuti

  • The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard Review by Karen Karbo

  • Love and Other Games of Chance by Lee Siegel Review by Eric Weinberger

    Washington Post Book World
  • Revenvge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan Review by Louis Bayard

  • When the Messenger is Hot by Elizabeth Crane Review by Heather Havrilsky

  • Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh Review by Margo Hammond

  • Isn't It Romantic by Ron Hansen Review by Lori Leibovich

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Drop City by T.C. Boyle Review by Andrew Roe

  • The Long Silence of Mario Salvati Review by Miriam Wolf

  • The Hazards of Good Breeding by Jessica Shattuck Review by David Wiegand

  • Hindsight by Barbara Rogan Review by Kathy Briccetti

  • Was It Beautiful by Alison McGhee Review by Kim Hedges

  • Property by Valerie Martin Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Any Human Heart by William Boyd Review by Anthony Giardina

  • Gilligan's Wake by Tom Carson Review by G. Beato

  • The Solitude of Compassion by Jean Giono Review by Steve Heilig

    Friday Febraury 14, 2003
    New York Times
  • Any Human Heart by William Boyd Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Tuesday February 11, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday February 9, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Hazards of Good Breeding by Jessica Shattuck Review by Jennifer Egan

  • The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich Review by Brooke Allen

  • Abandon by Pico Iyer Review by Pankaj Mishra

  • Featherstone by Kirsty Gunn Review by Peter Cameron
  • Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf Review by Daniel Swift

    Books in Brief:
  • The Amount to Carry by Carter Sholz Review by Therese Littleton

  • Mount Clutter by Sarah Lindsay Review by Melanie Rehak

  • The Skating Pond by Deborah Joy Corey Review by John Hartl

  • How the Green Blade Rises by Elizabeth Spires Review by Darcy Cosper

  • The Bad Witness by Laura Van Wormer Review by Carolyn T. Hughes

  • Goblin Fruit by David Marshall Chan Review by Mary Park

    Washington Post Book World
  • Mr. Lincoln's Wars by Adam Braver Review by Chris Bohjalian

  • The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Review by Alice K. Turner

  • The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers Review by Jabari Asim

  • The King in the Tree: Three Novellas by Steven Millhauser Review by Michael Dirda

  • Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story by Emma Tennant
  • Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Frontera Street by Tanya Maria Barrientos
  • A Singular Hostage by Thalassa Ali
  • Terrible Angel by Dermot McEvoy
    Review by Jane Ciabattari

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Ticket Out by Helen Knode Review by David Kipen

  • Featherstone by Kirsty Gunn Review by Alan Black

  • Wintering by Kate Moses Review by Joch Emmons

  • Set This House in Order by matt Ruff Review by Barbara Quick

  • Our Father Who Art in a Tree by Judy Pascoe Review by Radhika Sharma

  • 101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason Review by John McMurtrie

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich Review by Gina B. Nahai

  • Last Stop Vienna by Andrew Nagorski Review by Carey Harrison

    Friday February7, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Review by Janet Maslin

    Thursday February 6, 2003
    Newsday
  • The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus Review by Dan Cryer

    Tuesday February 4, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday February 2, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker Review by Walter Kirn

  • Great Neck by Jay Cantor Review by Adam Begley

  • Making Things Better by Anita Brookner Review by Brian Morton

  • The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen Review by Michael Pye

  • The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus Review by Barry Unsworth

  • Welcome to Heavenly Heights by Risa Miller Review by Neil Gordon

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon Review by Elizabeth Hand

  • The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus Review by Jon Fasman

  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Review by Paul Di Filippo

  • Love and Other Games of Chance by Lee Siegel Review by Steven Moore

  • Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall Review by Laura Lippman

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich Review by Anneli Rufus

  • Great Neck by Jay Cantor Review by Matt King

  • Waiting For an Angel by Helon Habila Review by Dave Gilson

  • The Last Good Chance by Tom Barbash Review by Kevin Smokler

  • Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh Review by Sara Ivry

    Chicago Tribune
  • His Mother's Son by Cai Emmons Review by Laura Ciolkowski

  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Review by Dick Adler

  • Officer Friendly and Other Stories by Lewis Robinson Review by Dan Cryer

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt Review by Frank Wilson

  • Ice Cream by Helen Dunmore Review by Susan Balee

    LA Times
  • I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brain Hall Review by Douglas Brinkley

  • The Judges by Elie Wiesel Review by Geoffrey Strachan

  • Samaritan by Richard Price Review by Michael Harris

  • Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America by Kathy Acker Review by Ben Ehrenreich

  • The Hazards of Good Breeding by Jessica Shattuck Review by Polly Shulman

  • As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann Review by Susan Jacoby

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