Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction

February 2004

Sunday February 29, 2004 New York Times Book Review Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellmann Review by Claire Dederer The Body by Hanif Kureishi Review by Benjain Kunkel The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra Review by Lenora Todaro Trouble in Mind: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido Review by Maureen N. McLane Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi Review by Valerie Sayers Washington Post Book World Someone To Run With by David Grossman Review by Justin Cronin Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi Review by Daniel Stashower Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z by Debra Weinstein Review by Linda Pastan San Francisco Chronicle Graceland by Chris Abani Review by Chuck Leddy Havana World Series by Jose Latour Review by Kevin Smokler The Epicures's Lament by Kate Christensen Review by Anhoni Patei Buying a Fishing Rod For My Grandfather by Gao Zingjian Review by Alan Cheuse The Snow Fox by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Review by Kimberly Burns The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe Review by Mark Luce Chicago Tribune But Come Ye Back by Beth Lordan Review by Conan Putnam Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff Review by Art Winslow Graceland by Chris Abani Review by Dan Cryer The Snow Fox by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Review by Janice P. Nimura Philadelphia Inquirer Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi Review by Michelle Reale Thursday February 26, 2004 Philadelphia Inquirer The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer Review by Connie Ogle Wednesday February 25, 2004 Philadelphia Inquirer City Boy by Jean Thompson Review by Dail Willis Tuesday February 24, 2004 New York Times Loving Che by Ana Menendez Review by Michiko Kakutani Monday February 23, 2004 Philadelphia Inquirer Wake by Beth Goldner Review by Susan Balee Sunday February 22, 2004 New York Times Book Review A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin Review by Charles Taylor The Strange Hours Travellers Keep by August Kleinzahler Review by Maureen McLane Gotham Tragic by Kurt Wenzel Love Monkey by Kyle Smith Review by Stephen Metcalf Graceland by Chris Abani Review by Sophie Harrison The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe Review by John Vernon Books in Brief: Vanishing Point by David Markson Review by Emily Nussbaum The Epicure's Lament by Kate Christensen Review by Curtis Sittenfeld Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi Review by Douglas Wolk Paranoia by Joseph Finder Review by Scott Sutherland Something Rising by Haven Kimmel Review by Mark Kamine Buying a Fishing Rod For My Grandfather: Stories by Gao Xingjian Review by Mick Sussman Washington Post Book World Shanghai Station by Bartle Bull Review by Jonathan Yardley Night of the Radishes by Sandra Benitez Review by Jane Ciabattari The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe Review by Dennis Drabelle Call Me the Breeze by Patrick McCabe Review by Trevor Butterworth The Birth of Venus by Sarah Durant Review by David Liss The Cello Player b Michael Kruger Review by Eugenia Zukerman The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland Review by Donna Rifking San Francisco Chronicle All That Is Gone by Pramoedya Ananta Review by Alan Cheuse The Body by Hanif Kureishi Review by Jennie Yabroff Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott Review by David Hill One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead by Clare Dudman Review by Amy Westervelt Gotham Tragic by Kurt Wenzel Review by Darren Everson Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews Review by Ethan Gilsdorf Chicago Tribune Project X by Jim Shepard Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories by Jim Shepard Review by John Freeman Philadelphia Inquirer The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith Review by George Held Tuesday February 17, 2004 New York Times The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra Review by Michiko Kakutani Monday February 16, 2004 New York Times The Last Goodbye by Reed Arvin Review by Janet Maslin Sunday February 15, 2004 New York Times Book Review The Havanna Room by Colin Harrison Review by Jonathan Mahler Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness Review by Brad Leithauser An Almost Perfect Moment by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Patricia T. O'Connor The Singing by C.K. Williams Review by William Deresiewicz Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel Review by Brigitte Frase Crofton's Fire by Keith Coplin Review by Art Winslow Washington Post Book World I Sailed With Magellan by Stuart Dybek Review by Andrew O'Hehir Loving Che by Ana Menendez Review by Ann Louise Bardach The Knight by Gene Wolfe Review by Michael Dirda San Francisco Chronicle The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler Review by John Freeman The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler Review by Tom Barbash My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel Review by Julia Livshin Every Night is Ladies Night by Michael Jamie-Becerra Review by Andrew Roe An Almost Perfect Moment by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Heller McAlpin Prisoners of War by Steve Yarbrough Review by Matt King The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra Review by Simon Read City Boy by Jean Thompson Review by Jaime O'Neill Love and Hydrogen by Jim Shepard Project X by Jim Shepard Review by Max Winter Fires in the Dark by Louise Doughty Review by Richard Zimler Chicago Tribune Referred Pain and Other Stories by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Review by Michael Upchurch Philadelphia Inquirer What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio Review by Jon Mooallem Newsday The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra Review by Robyn Creswell Friday February 13, 2004 New York Times Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellmann Review by Michiko Kakutani Thursday February 12, 2004 Love Monkey by Kyle Smith Gotham Tragic by Kurt Wenzel Review by Janet Maslin Wednesday February 11, 2004 New York Times The Winemaker's Daughter by Timothy Egan Review by Sven Birkerts Tuesday February 10, 2004 New York Times The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro and Other Stories by Paul Theroux Review by Michiko Kakutani Philadelphia Inquirer Empress Orchid by Anchee Min Review by Ben Neihart Monday February 9, 2004 New York Times A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin Review by Janet Maslin Philadelphia Inquirer Holy Fools by Joanna Harris Review by Susan Hall-Balduf Sunday February 8, 2004 New York Times Book Review Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z by Debra Weinstein Review by Lisa Zeidner The Snow Fox by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Review by Lesley Downer The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer Review by Gary Krist Ghostfires by Keith Dixon Review by Daniel Woodrell Loving Che by Ana Menendez Review by Ruth Lopez Someone to Run With by David Grossman Review by Claire Messud Books in Brief: The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland Review by Michael Agger Empress Orchid by Anchee Min Review by John Hartl Happy Days by Laurent Graff Review by Tim Wilson Graft by Brian Henry Review by Carmela Ciuraru Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali Review by Joanna Smith Prisoners of War by Steve Yarbrough Review by Laura C. Moser Washington Post Book World An Almost Perfect Moment by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Frances Taliaferro The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner Review by Roxana Robinson The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro and other Stories by Paul Theroux Review by Stephen Abell San Francisco Chronicle Holy Fools by Joanne Harris Review by Regan McMahon On a Night Like This by Ellen Sussman Review by Summer Block Voyage to the End of the Room by Tibor Fischer Review by Brad Vice The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing Review by Martin Rubin Review by Martin Rubin Above the Thunder by Renee Manfredi Review Red Meat Cures Cancer by Starbuck O'Dwyer Review by Simon Read One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto Review by Sandip Roy Kilbrack by Jamie O'Neill Review by Robret Walch Anything You Say Can and Will Be used Against You by Laurie Lynn Drummond Review by Jennie Yabroff Chicago Tribune Sister North by Jim Kokoris Review by Jason Berry Newsday Holy Fools by Joanne Harris Review by Bethany Schneider Sunday February 1, 2004 New York Times Book Review Mr. Paradise by Elmore Leonard Review by Ann Beattie The Fountain At the Center of the World by Robert Newman Review by Dwight Garner The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua Review by Richard Eder Poem and Translations by Ezra Pound Review by David Gates Washington Post Book World The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing Review by Susie Linfield Mr. Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers Review by Alice K. Turner The Fox's Walk by Annabel Davis-Goff Review by Aoibheann Sweeney Women With Big Eyes by Angeles Mastretta Review by Chris Bohjalian San Francisco Chronicle Empress Orchid by Anchee Min Review by Irene Wanner The Barracks by John McGahern Review by Jon Mooallem Distant Palaces by Abilio Estevez Review by Melissa Price Chicago Tribune City Boy by Jean Thompson Review by Donna Seaman Walking Into the Night by Olaf Olafsson Review by Beth Kephart Voyage to the End of the Room by Tibor Fischer Review by David L. Ulin Philadelphia Inquirer The Floating Book by Michelle Lovric Review by Frank Wilson The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen Review by David Hiltbrand January 2004 List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site