Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
February 2005

Sunday February 27, 2005
New York Times Book Review
  • God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories by Tom Bissell Review by Pankaj Mishra

    Chronicle: Fiction:
  • The White Rose by Jean Hanff Lorelitz
  • The Courage Consort by Michel Faber
  • Frankland by James Whorton Jr.
  • Sight Hound by Pam Houston
    Review by Elizabeth Judd

  • Josie and Jack by Kelly Braffett Review by Sarah Vowell

  • Harold's End by JT LeRoy Review by Albert Mobilio

  • The Underminer by Mike Albo with Virginia Heffernan Review by Lisa Zeidner

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman Review by David Liss

  • Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz Review by Lydia Millet

  • Inner Voices: Selected Poems 1963-2003 by Richard Howard Review by Stephen Burt

    Fiction:
  • Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
  • My Life As Emperor by Su Tong
  • Please Don't Come Back From the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos
  • Josie and Jack by Kelly Braffet
  • Give Me (Songs for Lovers) by Irina Denezhkina
    Review by Andrew Ervin

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Tales by H.P. Lovecraft Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Devil's Wind by Richard Rayner Review by Tom Nolan

  • The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme by Andrei Makine Review by Chandrahas Choudhury

  • Stop That Girl by Elizabeth McKenzie Review by Claire Dederer

  • A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell Review by Malena Watrous

  • Angry Black White Boy, or the Miscegenation of Macon Detornay by Adam Mansbach Review by Buzz Poole

  • The Red Gaze by Barbara Guest Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky

    Chicago Tribune
  • Tales by H.P. Lovecraft Review by Dick Adler

  • Beautiful Inez by Bart Schneider Review by Laura Demanski

    Boston Globe
  • The Stone That the Builder Refused by Madison Smartt Bell Review by John Freeman

  • A Changed Man by Francine Prose Review by Mameve Medwed

    Short Takes:
  • God Lives in St. Petersburg by Tom Bissell
  • Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
    Review by Amanda Heller

    Thursday February 24, 2005
    New York Times
  • Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday February 23, 2005
    Boston Globe
  • The year is '42 by Nell Bielski Review by Kevin O'Kelly

    Tuesday February 22, 2005
    Boston Globe
  • God's Gym by John Edgar Wideman Review by Julie Wittes Schlack

    Christian Science Monitor
  • Tilting At Windmills by Julian Branston Review by Ron Charles

    Sunday February 20, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Nice Big American Baby: Stories by Judy Budnitz Review by Tom Perrotta

    Chronicle: Short Stories:
  • You Are Not the One by Vestal McIntyre
  • Calamity by Daphne Kalotay
  • Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes by Merrill Feitell
  • This is a Voice From Your Past by Merrill Joan Gerber
  • Damned If I Do by Percival Everett
  • Quick by T.M. McNally
  • The Girl Who Married a Lion by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Telling Tales: Edited by Nadine Gordimer
    Review by Maggie Galehouse

  • The Displaced Capital by Anne Winters Review by Emily Nussbaum

  • Pearl by Mary Gordon Review by John Leonard

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Lost Mother by Mary McGarry Morris Review by Richard Grant

  • Winslow in Love by Kevin Canty Review by Kerry Fried

  • Everyone's Pretty by Lydia Millet Review by Sarah Weinman

  • Dr. King's Refrigerator and other Bedtime Stories by Charles Johnson Review by Steven Moore

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz Review by Sarah Coleman

  • The Ha-Ha by Dave King Review by Malena watrous

  • Collected Stories by Carol Shields Review by Christine Thomas

  • Give Me by Irina Denezhkina Review by Jami Attenberg

  • Johnny Too Bad by John Dufresne Review by Francesca Wodtke

  • Jass by David Fulmer Review by David Abrams

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Cemetery of Chua Village and Other Stories by Doan Le Review by Michael Upchurch

    Boston Globe
  • Collected Stories by Carol Sheilds Review by David Thoreen

  • The Kreutzer Sonata by Margriet de Moor
  • Brace by Linn Ullmann
  • How To Fall by Edith Peralman
    Review by Barbara Fisher

  • The Temple of Music by Jonathan Lowy
  • Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
  • Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
    Review by Ann Mundlow

  • The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd Review by Andrew Biswell

    Wednesday February 15, 2005
    Christian Science Monitor
  • The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce Review by Ron Charles

    Sunday February 13, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Please Don't Come Back From the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos Review by Elissa Schappell

  • Empire Rising by Thomas Kelly Review by Joe Klein

  • The Society of Others by William Nicholson Review by Tobin Harshaw

  • The Kreutzer Sonata by Margriet de Moor Review by Kathryn Harrison

  • Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh Review by Charles Taylor

    Washington Post Book World
  • Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap Review by Carole Burns

  • Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson Review by Bill Sheehan

  • The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty Review by John McNally

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap Review by Carolyn Juris

  • Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Empire Rising by Thomas Kelly Review by Peter Campoin

  • God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories by Tom Bissell Review by Dan Zigmond

  • The Professor's Daughter by Emily Raboteau Review by Francesca Wodtke

  • Babyji by Abha Dawesar Review by Melissa Price

  • Puff by Bob Flaherty Review by Sara Peyton

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Lost Mother by Mary McGarry Morris Review by Beth Kephart

  • Milk by Darcey Steinke Review by Maud Newton

  • Fascination by William Boyd
  • Any Human Heart by William Boyd
    Review by Art Winslow

  • Pearl by Mary Gordon Review by Jane Ciabattari

    Boston Globe
  • The Ice Chorus by Sarah Stonich
  • The Tea House on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens
  • Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel
    Review by Diane White

  • Please Don't Come back From the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos Review by Caroline Leavitt

  • The Vanished Hands by Robert Wilson Review by Clea Simon

    Sunday February 6, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Review by Laura Miller

  • Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan Review by Terrence Rafferty

  • Collected Stories by Carol Shields Review by Ann Hulbert

  • The Sea of Tears by Nani Power Review by Susannah Meadows

  • Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Duncan Review by Ben Ehrenreich

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Unknown Soldier by Gerald Seymour
    Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
    Review by Jeff Turrentine

  • Busted Flush by Brad Smith
    Review by Donald Westlake

  • The Ha-Ha by Dave King
    Review by Dan Chaon

  • Dog Days by Pam Houston
  • Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
  • The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr
  • Carry Me Home by Sandra Kring
  • Home Away From Home by Lorna J. Cook
    Review by Susan Adams

    Tuesday February 1, 2005
    Boston Globe
  • The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell Review by Michael Kenney

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