Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction

January 2001

Tuesday January 30, 2001 LA Times Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegartner Review by Michael Harris Monday January 29, 2001 New York Times Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding Review by Janet Maslin Sunday January 28, 2001 New York Times Book Review Transfigurations: Collected Poems by Jay Wright Review by John Hollander The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt Review by Richard Eder The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Review by Michael Gorra When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant Review by Suzanne Ruta Heroin and Other Poems by Charlie Smith Review by David Kirby Mall by Eric Bogosian Review by Will Blythe Books in Brief: If 6 Were 9 by Jake Lamar Review by Gavin McNett Frida by Barbara Mujica Review by Emily White Setting Fires by Kate Wenner Review by Maria Russo Resident Aliens by Joe Ashby Porter Review by Dana Kennedy Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huoung Review by Philip Gambone Washington Post Book World Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian Review by Marie Arana The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Review by George Garrett The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt Review by Nina King Mimi's Ghost by Tim Parks Review by Katherine A. Powers San Francisco Chronicle The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt Review by Alan Cheuse Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham Review by Brad Vice @expectations by Kit Reed Review by Reamy Jansen Philadelphia Inquirer The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt Review by Justin D. Coffin Love by Peter Nadas Review by Andrew Ervin Chicago Tribune A New World by Amit Chaudri The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Review by Valerie Miner The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner Review by Carey Harrison Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin Review by Ann Patchett An American Outrage by G.K. Wuori Review by Noah Isackson Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes Review by Margaret L. Knox LA Times Discoveries: The Music at Long Verney by Sylvia Townsend Warner Review by Susan Salter Reynolds The True History of the Kelly Gang Review by Jonathan Levi Mimi's Ghost by Tim Parks Review by Lucretia Stewart St. Louis Post Dispatch Demonology by Rick Moody Review by Charles Shipman The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt Review by Peter Wolfe Sunday January 21, 2001 New York Times Call If You Need Me by Raymond Carver Review by Claire Dederer Inspired Sleep by Robert Cohen Review by Karen Karbo Woodcuts of Women by Dagoberto Gilb Review by Jean Thompson The Music at Long Verney: Twenty Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner Review by Miranda Seymour The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes Review by Tobin Harshaw Books in Brief: Sometimes I Dream in Italian by Rita Ciresi Review by Deborah Sussman Susser The Sailor's Wife by Helen Benedict Review by Peter Bricklebank Bloodroot by Aaron Ray Even Review by Carol Peace Robins Drowning in Hot Water by Patrick T. Murphy Review by John D. Thomas Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner Review by Peter Khoury Consequences of the Heart by Peter Cunningham Review by James Zug Washington Post Book World Killing Time by Caleb Carr Review by Gregory Feeley On A Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke Review by Paul West The Forger by Paul Watkins Review by Leonard Michaels The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq Review by Steven Moore San Francisco Chronicle Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian Review by Mark Luce Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian Review by Edward A. Gargan Demonology by Rick Moody Review by Jeff Galipeaux Cassada by James Salter Review by David Streitfeld The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi by Arthur Japin Review by Heidi Benson Philadelphia Inquirer Cassada by James Salter Review by Donald Newlove The Sacred Pool by L. Warren Douglas Review by Susan Balee Fake House by Linh Dinh Review by Linda K. Harris The Beast That God Forgot To Invent by Jim Harrison Review by Gwen Florio Woodcuts of Women by Dagoberto Gilb Review by Michael Harrington Unlock by Bei Dao Review by Andrew Ervin A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh Review by Susan Miron LA Times First Fiction Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian P.E.A.C.E. by Guy Holmes The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi Review by Mark Rozzo Chicago Tribune Juggling the Stars by Tim Parks Mimi's Ghost by Tim Parks Review by Michael Upchurch Friday January 19, 2001 New York Times The Body Artist by Don DeLillo Review by Michiko Kakutani Thursday January 18, 2001 New York Times A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan Bad Boy by Olivia Goldsmith Review by Janet Maslin Wednesday January 17, 2001 New York Times The Funeral Party by Ludmila Ulitskaya Review by Richard Bernstein Tuesday January 16, 2001 New York Times Call If You Need Me by Raymond Carver Review by Michiko Kakutani Monday January 15, 2001 New York Times Passing by Nella Larsen Review by Richard Bernstein Sunday January 14, 2001 New York Times Island by Jane Rogers Review by Bliss Broyard Perfect Recall by Ann Beattie Review by Jennifer Schuessler Code to Zero by Ken Follett Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson Review by John W. Dean In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor Review by Michael Upchurch Mimi's Ghost by Tim Parks Review by Colin Harrison The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi Review by Leo Carey Books in Brief: The Breadmaker's Carnival by Andrew Lindsay Review by Joan Mooney The Hatbox Baby by Carrie Brown Review by Carmela Cuiraru So Far Back by Pam Durban Review by Claire Dederer Deck the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark Review by Matthew Flamm Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams Washington Post Book World The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes Review by Michael Dirda The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Review by Lee Siegel What Remains by Nicholas Delbanco Review by Neil Gordon Provinces of Night by William Gay Review by Madison Smartt Bell Cassada by James Salter Review by Paul West Our Man in Vienna by Richard Conroy Review by Diane Scharper San Francisco Chronicle True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Review by Ken Foster A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan Review by Adrienne Crew A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh Review by Marion Abbott Sweet Hearts by Melanie Rae Thon Review by John Freeman Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson Review by Robert Ward Winter Journey by Isabel Colegate Review by Carey Harrison Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry Review by Freeman House Land of Smiles by T.C. Huo Review by Richard Wallace Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime by John Dunning Review by Roger K. Miller Philadelphia Inquirer The Constant Gardener By John le Carre Review by David Walton LA Times Love by Peter Nadas Review by Jonathan Levi The Constant Gardener by John le Carre Review by Eugen Weber Chicago Tribune The Constant Gardener by John le Carre Review by Chris Petrakos St. Louis Post Dispatch Cape Breton Road by D.R. MacDonald Review by Suzanne Rhodenbaugh Sunday January 7, 2001 New York Times Book Review True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Review by Anthony Quinn The Constant Gardener by John le Carre Review by Rand Richrads Cooper The Inventory by Gila Lustiger Review by Edmund White Whose Song and Other Stories by Thomas Glave review by David Shields Here in the World by Victoria Lancelotta Review by Albert Mobilio The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories by Mark Kurlansky Review by Bob Shacochis The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby Review by Janice P. Nimura The Abomination by Paul Golding Review by Louis Bayard Books in Brief: The Clouds in Memphis by C.J. Hribal Review by Kimberley B. Marlowe The Temple of Optimism by James Fleming Review by Claire Dederer Open All Night: New Poems by Charles Bukowski Review by Kera Bolonik The Stone Woman by Tariq Ali Review by Peter Khoury Left-Handed Dreams by Francesca Duranti Review by Christopher Bray Washington Post Book World Rhode Island Blues by Fay Weldon Review by Reeve Lindbergh The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi by Arthur Japin Review by Anne Landsman Love by Peter Nadas The Return of Felix Nogara by Pablo Medina Land of Smiles by T.C. Huo Prianesi's Dream by Gerhard Kopf Desirada by Maryse Conde Review by John Freeman Philadelphia Inquirer Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist Review by Martha Woodall Honorable Company by Allan Mallinson Review by Susan Balee San Francisco Chronicle Perfect Recall by Ann Beattie Review by Conan Putnam Head by William Tester Review by David Wiegand The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Review by Elizabeth Kadetsky In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor Review by Floyd Skloot Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer Review by Alan M. Jalon Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means Review by Reamy Jansen I Married an Earthling by Alvin Orloff Review by Cathryn Alpert Cool For You by Eileen Myles Review by Dodie Bellamy Chicago Tribune Ella in Bloom by Shelby Hearon Review by Sandra Scofield The Body Artist by Don DeLillo Review by Steven G. Kellman St. Louis Post Dispatch Perfect Recall by Ann Beattie Review by Nancy Shapiro Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew Review by Suzanne Rhodenbaugh Friday January 5, 2001 New York Times Cassada by James Salter Review by Richard Bernstein Washington Post Out of the Night That Covers Me by Pat Cunningham Devoto Review by Carolyn See Thursday January 4, 2001 New York Times True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Review by Janet Maslin Tuesday January 2, 2001 New York Times Perfect Recall by Ann Beattie Review by Michiko Kakutani Monday January 1, 2001 Provinces of Night by William Gay Review by Richard Bernstein December 2000 List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site