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

Thursday January 30, 2002
New York Times
  • Great Neck by Jay Cantor Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday January 29, 2003
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Area Code 212 by Frederick Seidel Review by George Held

    Tuesday January 28, 2003
    New York Times
  • Dorian by Will Self Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday January 26, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall Review by Bruce Barcott

  • Gilligan's Wake by Tom Carson Review by David Kelly

  • The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers Review by Daniel Mendelsohn

  • The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya Review by Richard Eder

  • The Interpreter by Suki Kim Review by Katherine Dieckmann

  • Amerika by Franz Kafka Review by Iain Bamforth

    Books in Brief:
  • Grass Roof, Tin Roof by Dao Strom Review by Andrew Ervin

  • Contradictions: Poems by Alfred Corn Review by David Barber

  • The Seduction of Silence by Bem Le Hunte Review by Anderson Tepper

  • Area Code 212 by Frederick Seidel Review by Megan Harlan

  • A Garden of Demons by Edward Hower Review by Charles Wilson

  • Acting Out by Benilde Little Review by Etelka Lehoczky

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen Review by Zofia Smardz

  • Gilligan's Wake by Tom Carson Review by Gene Seymour

  • The Fall by Simon Mawer Review by Richard Byrne

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers Review by Brad Vice

  • Abandon by Pico Iyer Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Ice Cream by Helen Dunmore Review by Megan Harlan

  • Pushed to Shore by Kate Gadbow Review by Joanna Smith Rakoff

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Last Girls by Lee Smith
  • Ignorance by Milan Kundera Review by John Freeman

  • The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera Review by Melvin Bukiet

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Beyond the Grave by Pierre Magnan Review by Christine Thomas

  • Siftin Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski Review by Joel Weishaus

    LA Times
  • I'll Take you There by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Stanley Crouch

  • Wintering by Kate Moses Review by Regina Marler

  • The Inquisitors' Manual by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Thomas McGonigle

    First Fiction:
  • The Interpreter by Suki Kim
  • Final Witness by Simon Tolkien
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Newsday
  • Abandon by Pico Ayer Review by Polly Shulman

    Thursday January 23, 2003
    Newsday
  • The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers Review by Dan Cryer

    Tuesday January 21, 2003
    New York Times
  • A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday January 19, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Forever by Pete Hamill Review by Andrew O'Hehir

  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Review by Lisa Zeidner

  • A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt Review by Daphne Merkin

  • Dancer by Colum McCann Review by Peter Kurth

  • Final Witness by Simon Tolkien Review by Geoff Nicholson

  • Mr. Romance by Miles Gibson' Review by David Finkle

    Washington Post Book World
  • Samaritan by Richard Price Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • Last Stop Vienna by Andrew Nagorski Review by Paul Watkins

  • Forever by Pete Hamill Review by Frances Taliaferro

  • That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx Review by Katherine A. Powers

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Isn't It Romantic by Ron Hansen Review by Heller McAlpin

  • Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay Review by J. Alex Tarquino

  • The Devil and Daniel Silverman by Theodore Roszak Review by Rachel Elson

  • The Monsters of St. Helena by Brooks Hansen Review by Kenneth Brewer

  • The Interpreter by Suki Kim Review by Bharti Kirchner

  • The Satanic Nurses by J.B. Miller Review by Matt King

  • Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwash Review by Jonathan Curiel

  • The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman Review by Patricia Miller

    Chicago Tribune
  • When the Messenger is Hot by Elizabeth Crane Review by Carol Anshaw

  • Islands of Silence by Martin Booth Review by Dan Cryer

  • The Boy in the Box by Lee J. Nelson Review by Steve Greenlee

  • I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel

  • Isn't It Romantic by Ron Hansen Review by Michael Harrington

  • Behindlings by Nicola Barker Review by Christine Thomas

  • The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers Review by Michael Martin Mills

    LA Times
  • Along Came a Child by Jo-Ann Mapson Review by Michael Harris

    Newsday
  • Great Neck by Jay Cantor Review by Stuart Klawans

  • The Interpreter by Suki Kim Review by Polly Shulman

    Thursday January 16, 2003
    New York Times
  • I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall
  • Mr. Lincoln's Wars by Adam Braver
    Review by Janet Maslin

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Dorian by Will Self Review by Dan DeLuca

    Wednesday January 15, 2003
    New York Times
  • The Inquisitor's Manual by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Richard Eder

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Samaritan by Richard Price Review by Michael Harrington

    Sunday January 12, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Lucy by Ellen Feldman Review by David Willis McCullough

  • The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay Review by Suketu Mehta

  • Isn't It Romantic by Ron Hansen Review by Michael Downing

    Books in Brief:
  • Taking Cures: New Poems by Richard Howard Review by David Orr

  • The Here and Now by Gregg Easterbrook Review by William Ferguson

  • At the Palace of Love by Karl Kirchwey Review by Kate Bolic

  • The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman Review by Micahel Porter

  • 69 Things to Do with A Dead Princess by Stewart Home Review by Matthew Flamm
    Washington Post Book World
  • Making Things Better by Anita Brookner Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • The Ecstatic by Victor D. LaValle Review by Alex P. Kellogg

  • As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann Review by Bruce Cook

  • Friday Nights at Honeybee's by Andrea Smith Review by Bart Schneider

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Dancer by Colum McCann Review by Sarah Coleman

  • Grass Roof, Tin Roof by Dao Strom Review by Stephen J. Lyons

  • The Inquisitor's Manual by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Dodie Bellamy

  • I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall Review by Ann Cummins

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Time Of Our Singing by Richard Powers Review by Steven G. Kellman

  • The Disapparation of James by Anne Ursu Review by Laurie Muchnik

  • Abandon by Pico Iyer Review by Michael Upchurch

  • A Pawn for a Queen by Fiona Buckley Review by Marietta Dunn

  • Black Swan by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Review by George Held

  • The Adventures of Flash Jackson by William Kowalski Review by Elisa Ludwig

  • Dancer by Colum McCann Review by Rusty Pray

    LA Times
  • Great Neck by Jay Cantor Review by Leslie Brody

  • Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda
  • Redness by Zakes Mda
    Review by Maureen Isaacson

  • Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung Review by Sheridan Prasso

  • The Caprices by Sabina Murray Review by Gloria Emerson

    First Fiction:
  • Grass Roof, Tin Roof by Dao Strom
  • Officer Friendly and Other Stories by Lewis Robinson Review by Mark Rozzo

    Newsday
  • The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya Review by Elaine Blair

  • Welcome to Heavenly Heights by Risa Miller Review by Sarah Coleman

    Sunday January 5, 2003
    New York Times Book Review
  • Dorian by Will Self Review by Sophie Harrison

  • The Fall by Simon Mawer Review by Gary Krist

  • Samaritan by Richard Price Review by Mark Costello

    Washington Post Book World
  • Boonville by Robert Mailer Anderson Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • Eleven Karens by Peter Lefcourt Review by Lisa Zeidner

  • The Inquisitor's Manual by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Steven Moore

  • The Seduction of Silence by Bem Le Hunte Review by Susan Coll

  • Islands of Silence by Martin Booth Review by Andrew Nagorski

  • I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall Review by Gregory McNamee

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Parts Unknown by Kevin Brennan Review by Ron Franscell

  • Behindlings by Nicola Barker Review by Christine Thomas

  • Making Things Better by Anita Brookner Review by Martin Rubin

  • Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B.H. Fairchild Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky

  • Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Pomes by Charles Bukowski Review by Alan Kaufman

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann Review by Susan Balee

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