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

Sunday July 31, 2005
New York Times Book Review
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Review by Liesl Schillinger

    Chronicle:
  • The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
  • An Outline of the Republic by Siddhartha Deb
  • Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
  • Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnath
  • Young Turk by Moris Farhi
    Review by Anderson Tepper

  • The Method Actors by Carl Shuker Review by Neil Gordon

  • Adored by Tily Bagshawe Review by Elissa Schappell

    Washington Post Book World
  • A Little Love Story by Roland Merullo Review by Donna Rifkind

  • Incendiary by Chris Cleave Review by Brigitte Weeks

  • Crawl Space by Edie Meidav Review by Thomas Kenneally

  • Q & A by Vikas Swarup Review by Ron Charles

  • Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia Review by Stephen Burt

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell Review by Amy Westervelt

  • Dying Light an Other Stories by Donald Hays Review by Stephen J. Lyons

  • Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj Review by Kim Hedges

    Chicago Tribune
  • Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
  • The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
    Review by Laura Demanski

  • Responsible Men by Edward Schwarzschild Review by Carey Harrison

  • Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie Review by Susan Hall-Balduf

    Boston Globe
  • Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson Review by John Freeman

  • Envy by Kathryn Harrison Review by Sandra Shea

  • The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh Review by Thrity Umrigar

    LA Times
  • Woman by Richard Matheson Review by Jonathan Kirsch

  • Trance by Christopher Sorrentino Review by Carmela Ciuraru

  • The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan Review by Susan Slater Reynolds

    Wednesday July 27, 2005
    New York Times
  • The Task Of This Translator by Todd Hasak-Lowy Review by Richard Eder

    Sunday July 24, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Review by Walter Kirn

  • A Way From Home by Nancy Clark Review by Liesl Schillinger

  • Star Dust by Frank Bidart Review by Langdon Hammer

  • The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan Review by Chelsea Cain

  • The Loss of Leon Meed by Josh Emmons Review by Maud Newton

  • We're All in This Together by Owen King Review by Jon Zobenica

  • Trance by Christopher Sorrentino Review by Tom Shone

    Washington Post Book World
  • Deadly Slipper by Michelle Wan Review by maureen Corrigan

  • Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin Review by Allen Barra

  • Trance by Christopher Sorrentino Review by Tom Paine

  • Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet Review by Sheri Holman

  • Spies by Marcel Beyer Review by Ron Charles

  • Chain of Comand by Caspar Weinberger Review by Andrew O'Hehir

  • Let The Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland Review by Jabari Asim

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Review by David Hellman

  • The History of Vegas by Jodi Angel Review by Brad Vice

  • Submission by Marthe Blau Review by Jamie Berger

  • Envy by Kathryn Harrison Review by Jennie Yabroff

  • Carnivore Diet by Julia Slavin Review by Megan Harlan

    Chicago Tribune
  • No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Trance by Christopher Sorrentino Review by David L. Ulin

    Boston Globe
  • The Coast of Akron by Adrienne Miller Review by Daniel Akst

  • Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys Review by Jodi Daynard

  • No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Review by Gail Caldwell

    LA Times
  • Savage Garden by Denise Hamilton Review by Michael Harris

  • No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Review by Eric Miles Williamson

  • Man Camp by Adriene Brodeur Review by Irene Wanner

  • Solitude and Other Stories by Arturo Vivante Review by Merrill Joan Gerber

  • Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie Review by Irene Wanner

    Monday July 18, 2005
    New York Times
  • No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday July 17, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Until I Find You by John Irving Review by Paul Gray

  • Last Call for Blackford Oakes by William F. Buckley Review by Charlie Rubin

    Poetry Chronicle:
  • While We've Still Got Feet by David Budbill
  • Tantalus in Love by Alan Shapiro
  • The Last Time I saw Amelia Earhart by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
  • Lettered Creatures by Brad Leithauser
  • Pyx by Corinne Lee
  • Ledger by Susan Wheeler
  • Crush by Richard Siken
  • This Connection of Everyone With Lungs by Juliana Spahr
  • The Eclipse by David Woo
    Review by Joel Brouwer and Joshua Clover

  • Envy by Kathryn Harrison Review by Emily Nussbaum

  • The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi Review by Lesley Downer

  • A Long Stay in a Distant Land by Chieh Chieng Review by Claire Dederer

  • The Last Flight of the Flamingo by Mia Couto Review by Rob Nixon

    Washington Post Book World
  • Carnivore Diet by Julia Slavin Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Review by Jeffrey Lent

  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Review by Ron Charles

  • Envy by Kathryn Harrison Review by Charles Taylor

  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Review by Ethan Canin

  • The Interruption of Everything by Terry MacMillan Review by Jabari Asim

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Brain Work by Michael Guista Review by Joel Whitney

  • Sky Burial by Xinran Xue Review by Robert Walch

  • Deadly Slipper by Michelle Wan Review by Clea Simon

  • Star Dust by Frank Bidart
  • Everything is Burning by Gerald Stern Review by Megan Harlan

  • The Every Boy by Dana Adam Shapiro Review by Eric Reyes

  • Hide and Seek by Clare Sambrook Review by Tess Taylor

  • The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks Review by David Lazarus

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Practice of Deceit by Elizabeth benedict Review by Janice P. Nimura

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Review by Cliff Froehlich

    LA Times
  • 98 Reasons for Being by Clare Dudman Review by Richard Eder

  • It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick Review by Benjamin Kunkel

    Thursday July 14, 2005
    New York Times
  • Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Tuesday July 12, 2005
    New York Times
  • Until I Find You by John Irving Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Christian Science Monitor
  • No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Review by Yvonne Zipp

    Sunday July 10, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Golden West by Daniel Fuchs Review by Sam Tanenhaus

  • The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Review by Henry Alford

  • Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala Review by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa

  • Music of the Mill by Luis J. Rodriguez
  • The People of Paper by Salvador Plasencia
    Review by Nathaniel Rich

  • Canaan's Tongue by John Wray Review by Sam Lipsyte

  • Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin Review by Sven Birkerts

    Washington Post Book World
  • What Casanova Told Me by Susan Swan Review by Geraldine Brooks

  • Until I Find You by John Irving Review by Marianne Wiggins

  • 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell Review by nancy Rawles

  • It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick Review by Adam Mazmanian

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Responsible Men by Edawrd Schwarzschild Review by June Sawyers

  • Big Cats by Holiday Reinhorn Review by Carlo Wolff

  • Until I Find You by John Irving Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Freddy and Fredericka by mark Helprin Review by Selina O'Grady

    Chicago Tribune
  • Until I Find You by John Irving Review by Carol Anshaw

  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Review by Jessica Treadway

  • Envy by Kathryn Harrison Review by Art Winslow

    Boston Globe
  • 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell Review by Jessica Treadway

  • Homesick Creek by Diane Hammond
  • Envy by Kathryn Harrison
  • Rococo by Adriana Trigiani
    Review by Diane White

    Sunday July 3, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea Review by Stacey D'Erasmo

  • Deliver Me From Nowhere by Tennessee Jones
  • Meeting Across the River: Edited by Jessica Kay and Richard J. Brewer Review by A.O. Scott

  • A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer by Christine Schutt Review by David Kirby

    Fiction Chronicle:
  • Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
  • The Bowl is Already Broken by Mary Kay Zuraleff
  • The Writing on the Wall by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
  • North by Frederick Busch
  • My name is Legion by A.N. Wilson
  • Chain of Command by Caspar Weinberger and Peter Schweizer
    Review by Gregory Cowles

  • Breath and Bones by Susann Cokal
  • The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey
    Review by Dawn Drzal

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco Review by Umberto Eco

  • The Good Priest's Son by Reynolds Price Review by Gail Godwin

  • The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi Review by Heather Hewett

  • A Way From Home by Nancy Clark Review by Ron Charles

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Belly by Lisa Selin Davis Review by Roland Goity

  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Review by sara Peyton

  • The Bitch Posse by Martha O'Connor Review by Joseph Di Prisco

  • The Crazyladies of Pearl Street by Trevanian Review by Larry Tritten

    Chicago Tribune
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Review by Laura Ciolkowski

  • A Perfect Stranger by Roxana Robinson Review by Jessica Treadway

  • In the Dark of the Moon by Suzanne Hudson Review by Lynna Williams

  • The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories by Bily Lombardo Review by David Schmittgens

  • We're in Trouble by Christopher Coake
  • The Task of This Translator by Todd Hasak-Lowy
  • Abundant Light by valerie Miner
    Review by Elizabeth Hoover

    Boston Globe
  • My Name is Legion by A.N. Wilson Review by Howard Frank Mosher

  • Small Island by Andrea Levy Review by Mameve Medwed


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