Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
July 2011

Sunday July 31, 2011
New York Times Book Review
  • This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman Review by Maria Russo

  • The Kid by Sapphire Review by Danielle Evans

  • Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch Review by Benjamin Hale

  • True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies Review by Rebecca Barry

  • The Astral by Kate Christensen Review by Daniel Handler

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Northwest Corner by John Burnham Schwartz Review by Adam Langer

  • Stories For Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky

  • The Storm At the Door by Stefan Merrill Block Review by Carmela Ciuraru

  • Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan Review by Alan Cheuse

    Washington Post
  • Busy Monsters by William Giraldi Review by Ron Charles

    Boston Globe
  • This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park Review by Jan Stuart

  • Stories For Nighttime and Some For Day by ben loory Review by Michael Patrick Brady

  • The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler Review by Chuck Leddy

    LA Times
  • My American Unhappiness by Dean Bakopoulos Review by Margaret Wappler

  • The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Review by Jane Ciabattari

  • Flashback by Dan Simmons Review by Nick Uwchar

  • House of Holes by Nicholson Baker Review by David L. Ulin

  • Stolen Pleasures: Selected Stories by Gian Berriault Review by David L. Ulin

    Sunday July 17, 2011
    New York Times Book Review
  • Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago Review by Gaiutra Bahadur

  • Turn of Mind by Alice La Plante Review by Zoe Slutzky

  • The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan Review by Justin Cronin

    Poetry:
  • Flies by Michael Dickman
  • Bringing the Shovel Down by Ross Gay
  • Torn by C. Dale Young
  • Becoming Weather by Chris Martin
    Review by Jeff Gordinier

  • A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble Review by Nancy King

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta Review by Andrew Palmer

    Washington Post
  • Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta Review by Ron Charles

    LA Times
  • Millennium People by J.G. Ballard Review by David L. Ulin

  • Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Review by Etelka Lehoczky

  • Untold Story by Monica Ali Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

  • Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta Review by David L. Ulin

    Thursday July 14, 2011
    New York Times
  • A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin Review by Dana Jennings

    Tuesday July 12, 2011
    New York Times
  • Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta Review by Michiko kakutani

    Sunday July 10, 2011
    New York Times Book Review
  • Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta Review by Kate Christensen

  • Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya Review by Sheila Glaser

  • The Wreckage by Michael Robotham Review by Joe Nocera

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Oregon Experiment by Keith Scribner Review by Brian Doyle

  • The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott Review by Bart Schneider

  • Whatver Gets You Through the Night by Andrei Codrescu Review by Janny Hendrix

  • French Lessons by Ellen Sussman Review by Regan McMahon

    Washington Post
  • The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan Review by Ron Charles

    LA Times
  • The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler Review by Mindy Farabee

  • A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin Review by Jeff VanderMeer

  • A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black Review by Carolyn Kellpgg

    Thursday July 7, 2011
    New York Times
  • Dominance by Will Lavender Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday July 3, 2011
    New York Times Book Review
  • Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee Review by Akash Kapur

  • Bright's Passage by Josh Ritter Review by Stephen King

  • Long Drive Home by Will Allison Review by Lucinda Rosenfeld

  • The Raising by Laura Kasischke
  • Space, In Chains by Laura Kasischke
    Review by Stephen Burt

    Chronicle:
  • The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
  • Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras
  • Oil on Water by Helon Habila
  • The Sentimentalists by Jahanna Skibsrud
    Review by Hirsh Sawhney

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Ladies and Gentlemen by Adam Ross Review by Skip Horack

  • The Curfew by Jesse Ball Review by Polly Rosenwaike

  • When I Was a Poet by David Meltzer Review by Bart Schneider

  • Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Review by Glenn C. Altschuler

  • Millennium People by J.G. Ballard Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Secret History of Costuguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez Review by Roberto Ignacio Diaz

    Washington Post
  • Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell Review by Ron Charles

    LA Times
  • Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones Review by Susan Straight

  • Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell Review by David L. Ulin

  • The Land At the End of the World by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Kai Maristed

  • Bright's Passage by Josh Ritter Review by Carolyn Kellogg

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