Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
June 2000

Sunday June 25, 2000
New York Times Book Review
  • Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson Review by Stephanie Zacharek

  • The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks Review by A.O. Scott

  • No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod Review by Thomas Mallon

  • Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson Review by Emily Barton

  • The Fortunes of Wangrin by Amadou Hampate Ba Review by Caryl Phillips

  • Angus: A Memoir by Charles Siebert Review by Diane Peck

  • Destiny by Tim Parks Review by Geoff Nicholson

    Books in Brief:
  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal Review by Jennifer Reese

  • The Republic of Wine by Mo Yan Review by Philip Gambone

  • Keeneland by Alyson Hagy Review by Sally Eckoff

  • Demons & Divas by Ursule Molinaro Review by William Ferguson

  • Night of Amber by Sylvie Germain Review by Michael Porter

  • The Colored Garden by O.H. Bennett Review by Jeff Waggoner

    Washington Post Book World
  • Dog Company Six by Edwin Howard Simmons Review by Russell Warren Howe

  • The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Review by Jabari Asim

  • Vertigo by W.G. Sebald Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin Review by Oscar C. Villalon

  • The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks Review by Ken Foster

  • Half a Heart by Rosellen Brown Review by Floyd Skloot

  • Wild Life by Molly Gloss Review by L.M. Cerruti

  • The Best of Jackson Payne
    by Jack Fuller Review by Eric Miles Williamson

  • Keeneland by Alyson Hagy Review by Dennis Harvey

  • For California's Gold by JoAnn Levy Review by Barbara Tannenbaum

  • Two Loves by Sian James Review by Floyd Skloot

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min Review by Josephine Foo

  • The Married Man by Edmund White Review by Kelly McQuain

  • The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks Review by Merilyn Jackson

    LA Times
  • The Best of Jackson Payne by Jack Fuller Review by Jonathan Levi

  • The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter Review by Thomas Curwen

  • The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery by Paul West Review by Ron Rosenbaum

    Discoveries:
  • The Married Man by Edmund White
  • The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison Review by Helen Verongos

  • The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks Review by Ron Franscell

    Friday June 23, 2000
    New York Times
  • Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Wednesday June 21, 2000
    New York Times
  • True Story by Bill Maher Review by Richard Bernstein

    Sunday June 18, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Review by Dwight Garner

  • The Year of Jubilio by Howard Bahr Review by Robert Morgan

  • Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers Review by Daniel Zalewski

  • Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me by Karen Karbo Review by Ann Hodgman

  • The Gravity of Sunlight by Rosa Shand Review by Margot Livesey

  • Windchill Summer by Norris Church Mailer Review by Jennifer Schuessler

    Books in Brief:
  • True Story by Bill Maher Review by Ray Sawhill

  • Remembrance Day by Henry Porter Review by Jennifer Reese

  • Lost Geography by Charlotte Bacon Review by Gloria Rohman

  • Enola Gay by Mark Levine Review by Deborah Weisgall

  • Lucy Crocker 2.0 by Caroline Preston Review by J.D. Biersdorfer

    Washington Post Book World
  • Fay by Larry Brown Review by George P. Pelecanos

    San Francsico Chronicle
  • The Married Man by Edmund White Review by David Wiegand

  • Stairs to the Roof by Tennessee Williams Review by Steven Winn

  • Affinity by Sarah Waters Review by Joanna Smith Rakoff

  • Anatomies by Anndee Hochman Review by Marit Haahr

  • Valencia by Michelle Tea Review by Kim Severson

    LA Times
  • The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Review by Jonathan Levi

  • Be the One by April Smith Review by Eugen Weber

    First Fiction:
  • Jim The Boy by Tony Earley
  • The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
  • Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Discoveries
  • Fludd by Hilary Mantel
  • Elegy for Kosovo by Ismail Kadare
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian Review by Colleen Kelly Warren

  • In The Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez Review by Judith Evans

    Sunday June 11, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • Jim the Boy by Tony Earley Review by Walter Kirn

  • The Obituary Writer by Porter Shreve Review by Louis Bayard

  • Anatomies: A Novella and Stories by Anndee Hochman Review by Aoibheann Sweeney

  • Half a Heart by Rosellen Brown Review by Laura Shapiro

  • Vertigo by W.G. Sebald Review by W.S. Di Piero

  • The Fly-Truffler by Gustaf Sobin Review by Jennifer Reese

  • Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin Review by Scott Bradfield

  • Dressing Up For Carnival by Carol Shields Review by David Willis McCullough

  • Sam the Cat And Other Stories by Matthew Klam Review by D.T. Max

    Books in Brief:
  • In My Other Life by Joan Silber Review by Carmela Ciuraru

  • The Boomer by Marty ASher Review by Erik Burns

  • Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs Review by Megan Harlan

  • The Battle by Patrick Rambaud Review by Jeff Waggoner

  • World of Pies by Karen Stolz Review by Emily Hall

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Married Man by Edmund White Review by Michael Dirda

  • Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson Review by Linda Barrett

  • In the Name of Salome by julia Alvarez Review by Joanne Omang

    Fiction:
  • The Spirit Cabinet by Paul Quarrington
  • Deep in the Heart by Sharon Oard Warner
  • Renato's Luck by Jeff Shapiro
  • The Blood Latitudes by William Harrison
    Review by Kit Reed

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Portrait of an Artist, As An Old Man by Joseph Heller Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet

  • Hunts in Dreams by Tom Drury Review by Justin Cronin

  • Sam The Cast by Matthew Klam Review by Karen Heller

  • The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Review by Peter Rock

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Plowing in the Dark by Richard Powers Review by Kevin Berger

  • Home Truths by David Lodge Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio

  • Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson Review by Ken Foster

  • Fabulous Hell by Craig Curtis
  • The Third Eye by David Knowles
  • Shopping by Gavin Kramer
  • Breznitz by Haim Lapid
  • When Kambia Elaine Flew in From Neptune by Lori Aurelia Williams
    Review by John Perry

    LA Times
  • Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin Review by Jonathan Levi

    Discoveries:
  • The Angel on the Roof: Stories by Russell Banks
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  • Carp Fishing on Valium by Graham Parker
  • Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Friday June 9, 2000
    Washington Post
  • Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss Review by Carolyn See

    Thursday June 8, 2000
    New York Times
  • Jim the Boy by Tony Earley Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday June 7, 2000
    New York Times
  • Stonedial by George Konrad Review by Richard Bernstein

    Sunday June 4, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • Fiona Range by Mary McGarry Morris Review by Maggie Paley

  • Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert Review by Sena Jeter Naslund

  • New Addresses: Poems by Kenneth Koch Review by Ken Tucker

  • Day of the Bees by Thomas Sanchez Review by Anita Gates

  • Swimming Sweet Arrow by Maureen Gibbon Review by Maile Meloy

  • Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss Review by Andrew Santella

  • Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian Review by Louis Bayard

  • The Fundamentals of Play by Caitlin Macy Review by Penelope Green

    Washington Post Book World
  • Deus Lo Volt by Evan S. Connell Review by Thomas Madden

  • Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers Review by Steven Moore

  • O.K. by Paul west Review by Nicholas Flokos

  • Grievance by K.C. Constantine Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Fiona Range by Mary McGarry Morris Review by Courtney Weaver

  • The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon Review by Daniel Orozco

  • The Republic of Wine by Mo Yan Review by Wu Ningkun

  • Lightning on the Sun by Robert Bingham Review by Andrew Roe

  • War Boy by Keif Hillsbery Review by David Wiegand

  • Dating Big Bird by Laura Zigman Review by Jennie Yabroff

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith Review by Lionel Shriver

  • Anatomies by Anndee Hochman Review by Sandra Scofield

  • Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult Review by Jill P. Capuzzo

    LA Times
    First Fiction:
  • What We Don't Know About Children by Simona Vinci
  • Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
  • The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • Faggots by Larry Kramer Review by Reynolds Price


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