Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
July 2001

Sunday July 29, 2001
New York Times Book Review
  • The Rackets by Thomas Kelly Review by Colin Harrison

  • Antarctica by Claire Keegan Review by Caitlin Macy

  • Cool for You by Eileen Myles
  • The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoy
    Review by Ann Powers

  • Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman Review by Claire Dederer

  • Flight of the Swans by Rosario Ferre Review by Diana Postlethwaite

    Books in Brief:
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman Review by Kera Bolonik

  • Jeremy Thrane by Kate Christensen Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

  • Strangers in Town by Ross McDonald Review by Scott Veale

  • Pipe Dream by Solomon Jones Review by Barbara Sutton

  • '57 Chicago by Steve Monore Review by Tom Beer

  • The Other Mozart by Sharon Chmielarz Review by Megan Harlan

    Washington Post Book World
  • What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell Review by Louise Titchener

  • In the Company of Angels by N.M. Kelby Review by Lev Raphael

  • Fairness by Ferdinand Mount Review by Michael Dirda

  • Clerical Errors by Alan Isler Review by Donna Rifkind

  • The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert Review by Adam Kirsch

  • Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman Review by Laurie Stone

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy Review by Sarah Coleman

  • Halide's Gift by Frances Kazan Review by Marion Abbott

  • Lit Life by Kurt Wenzel Review by Kevin Smokler

  • Summerland by Malcolm Knox Review by Mark Luce

  • Life After Death by Carol Muske-Dukes Review by John Perry

    Boston Globe
  • The Procedure by Harry Mulisch
  • Second Thyme Around by Katie Fforde
    Review by Barbara Fisher

  • Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
  • Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
    Review by Gail Caldwell

    LA Times
  • John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead Review by D.J. Carlile

    First Fiction:
  • Juniper Tree Burning by Goldberry Long
  • Juno & Juliet by Julian Gough
  • Lit Life by Kurt Wenzel
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Chicago Tribune
  • Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Review by Sandra Scofield

  • The Sweetheart Is In by S.L. Wisenberg Review by Valerie Miner

  • How To Be Good by Nick Hornby Review by Robert Allen Papinchak

  • The Yokota Officers Club by Sarah Bird Review by Jeanne Ray

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage Review by Phaedra Trethan
  • Pipe Dream by Solomon Jones Review by Frank Wilson
  • Babe in Paradise by Marisa Silver Review by Justin Cronin

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • The Broken Places by Susan Perabo Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss
  • Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
  • Glue by Irvine Welsh
  • How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
    Review by John Freeman

    Sunday July 22, 2001
    New York Times
  • The Center of Things by Jenny McPhee Review by Dennis Overbye

  • The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell Review by Michael Anderson

  • Honeymooners by Chuck Kinder Review by Jay McInerney

  • The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Review by Brad Leithauser

  • On the Water by H.M. van den Brink Review by Chris Solomon

  • Jewelry Talks: A Novel Thesis by Richard Klein Review by William Norwich

  • The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam Review by Jacqueline Carey

  • The Looking Glass by Michele Roberts Review by Catherine Lockerbie

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Looking Glass by Michele Roberts Review by Emily Barton

  • Lili by Annie Wang Review by Lisa See

  • Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar Review by Helen C. Wan

  • Halide's Gift by Frances Kazan Review by Gelareh Asayesh

  • To Swim Across the World by Frances Park and Ginger Park Review by Deborah Sussman Susser

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Rose City by David Ebershoff Review by Wilton Barnhardt

  • True Enough by Stephen McCauley Review by Dan Santow

  • The Sweep of the Second Hand by Dean Monti Review by Barry Silesky

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • How To Be Good by Nick Hornby Review by David Kipen

  • Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman Review by Monica Wood

  • Edgewater Angels by Sandro Meallet Review by James Brown

  • Juno & Juliet by Julian Gough Review by Jeff Galipeaux

  • My Story As Told By Water by David James Duncan Review by John Osborn

  • Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo Review by Richard Wallace

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • All We Know of Heaven by Remy Rougeau Review by Michael D. Schaffer

    LA Times
  • Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Review by Jeff Turrentine

  • The Sailor's Wife by Helen Benedict Review by Peter Green

  • The Looking Glass by Michele Roberts Review by Kai Maristed

  • How To Be Good by Nick Hornby Review by Jonathan Levi

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Lit Life by Kurt Wenzel Review by Josh Stevens

  • Secrets of Tsil Cafe by Thomas Fox Averill Review by Judith Evans

    Sunday July 15, 2001
    New York Times
  • The Bostons by Carolyn Cooke Review by Sylvia Brownrigg

  • Talking in the Dark: Stories by Laura Glen Louis
  • Yellow by Don Lee
    Review by Will Blythe

  • The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman Review by Maggie Galehouse

  • Rot by Janet Kauffman Review by Richard Lourie

  • Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels Review by Liam Callanan

  • Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Review by Robert Plunket

    Books in Brief:
  • All the Finest Girls by Alexandra Styron Review by Mark Lindquist

  • Doghouse Roses by Steve Earle Review by Sia Michel

  • Spinach Days: Poems by Robert Phillips Review by Megan Harlan

  • Dream House: Stories by Barbara Bean Review by Judith Bolton-Fasman

  • Clay's Quilt by Silas House Review by Erik Lundegaard

  • Gunman's Rhapsody by Robert Parker Review by Allen Barra

    Washington Post Book World
  • Next of Kin by Joanna Trollope Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • How To Be Good by Nick Hornby Review by Jennifer Howard

  • Blake's Therapy by Ariel Dorfman Review by Joanna Omang

  • The Center of Things by Jenny McPhee Review by Sam Lipsyte

  • The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb Review by Judith Warner

  • All We Know of Heaven by Remy Rougeau Review by Robert Clark

  • The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray Review by Zofia Smardz

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Antarctica by Claire Keegan Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio

  • The Center of Things by Jenny McPhee Review by Jonathan Kiefer

  • The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman Review by Heller McAlpin

  • Up In the Air by Walter Kirn Review by Kevin Smokler

  • Mind the Doors by Zinovy Zinik Review by Irina Reyn

  • Juniper Tree Burning by Goldberry Long Review by Megan Harlan

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Catsitters by James Wolcott Review by Carlin Romano

    Boston Globe
  • The Journey Home by Olaf Olafsson Review by Dick Lehr

  • The Fourth Hand by John Irving Review by Gail Caldwell

    Sunday July 8, 2001
    New York Times
  • The Artist's Wife by Max Phillips Review by Sarah Boxer

  • Up In the Air by Walter Kirn Review by Christopher Buckley

  • The Fourth Hand by John Irving Review by Richard Eder

  • Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue Review by Laura Jamison

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski Review by Todd Kliman

  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Review by Joseph McLellan

  • Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler Review by Judith Warner

  • Schooling by Heather McGowan
  • All Loves Excelling by Josiah Bunting III
    Review by Linda Barrett Osborne

  • Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara Review by Noel Perrin

  • All the Finest Girls by Alexandra Styron
  • Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
  • The Width of the Sea by Michelle Chalfoun
  • By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Silent Extras by Arnon Grunberg
    Review by Heller McAlpin

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah Review by Brad Vice

  • The Fourth Hand by John Irving Review by Dennis Loy Johnson

  • Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue Review by Danielle Svetcov

  • Secrets of the Tsil Cafe by Thomas Fox Averill Review by Jacob Molyneux

  • Housebroken by Yael Hedaya Review by Andrew Ervin

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Thinks by David Lodge Review by Dan DeLuca

    Chicago Tribune
  • Yellow by Don Lee
  • Lili by Annie Wang
    Review by Jan Alexander

  • Secret Love by Bart Schneider Review by John Gregory Brown

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Leaving the Neighborhood by Lucy Ferriss Review by Richard Burgin

    LA Times
  • Antarctica by Claire Keegan Review by Jerry Griswold

  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Review by Jonathan Levi

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