Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
JUNE

Sunday June 27, 1999
New York Times Book Review
  • Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories by Rick DeMarinis Review by Marc Smirnoff

  • Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes Review by Roy Hoffman

  • Who's Irish by Gish Jen Review by Jean Thompson

  • Don't Think Twice by Wayne Johnson Review by Daniel Woodrell

  • Back to the Moon by Homer H. Hickam Jr. Review by Anita Gates

  • The Pollen Room by Zoe Jenny Review by Jenny McPhee

    Books in Brief:
  • A Vaudville of Devils by Robert Girardi Review by Katherine Wolff

  • Holy Smoke by Anna Campion and Jane Campion Review by Gardner McFall

  • Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty Review by Liam Callanan

  • A Taxi to the Flame by Vickie Karp Review by Melanie Rehak

  • The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste by Patricia Eakins Review by Elizabeth Judd

    Washington Post Book World
  • True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway Review by Dawn Trouard

  • City of Light by Lauren Belfer Review by Cristina Del Sesto

  • Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown Review by Georgia Jones-Davis

  • Love in a Dead Language: A Romance by Lee Siegel Review by Paul Di Filippo

  • Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
  • The Paris Pilgrims by Clancy Carlile
    Review by James Sallis

  • Italian Fever by Valerie Martin Review by Lauren Henderson

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Boy in the Water by Stephen Dobyns Review by Susan Balee

  • The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank Review by Karen Heller

  • Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith Review by Marc Schogol

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Boy in the Water by Stephen Dobyns Review by Sunil Iyengar

  • Another World by Pat Barker Review by Joyce McGinnis

  • Through the Windshield by Michael DeCapite Review by Barbara Schultz

  • I Left My Back Door Open by April Sinclair Review by Autumn Stephens

  • Makai by Kathleen Tyau Review by David Cline

  • The Way People Run by Christopher Tilghman Review by David Wiegand

  • The Art of the Lathe by B.H. Fairchild Review by Allan M. Jalon

  • Overtime: Selected Poems by Philip Whalen Review by Tom Clark

    LA Times
  • Timbuktu by Paul Auster Review by Jonathan Levi

    St.Louis Post Dispatch
  • True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway Review by Peter Wolfe

    Friday June 25, 1999
    New York Times
  • Timbuktu by Paul Auster Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Thursday June 24, 1999
    New York Times
  • Andes Rising by James Munves Review by Richard Eder

    Tuesday June 22, 1999
    New York Times
  • True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday June 20, 1999
    New York Times Book Review
  • Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison Review by Louis Menand
  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Walace Review by Adam Goodheart

  • Tough, Tough, Toys for Tough Tough Boys by Will Self Review by Jonathan Lethem

  • Timbuktu by Paul Auster Review by Jim Shepard

  • The Dragon hunt: Five Stories by Tran Vu Review by Francine Prose

  • The Ladies' Man by Elinor Lipman Review by Anita Gates

    Books in Brief:
  • A Celibate Season by Carol Shields and Blanche Howard Review by Michael Porter

  • Circling the Drain: Stories by Amanda Davis Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

  • Heartbreaker by Robert Ferrigno Review by Scott Veale

  • The Messenger by Mayra Montero Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman Review by Dante Ramos

  • Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie Review by Nina Sonenberg

    Washington Post Book World
  • Music for Torching by A.M. Homes Review by Michele Slung

  • A Vaudeville of Devils: 7 Moral Tales by Robert Girardi Review by Kay Douglas

  • Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen Review by Andrew O'Hehir

  • Collected Tales and Fantasies by Lord Berners Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison Review by Henry Mayer

  • Close Range by Annie Proulx Review by Cathryn Alpert

  • Nude in Tub by G.K. Wuori Review by Chris Bohjalian

  • Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer Review by Tom Nolan

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Review by Ann Waldron

  • Bone by Bone by Peter Matthiessen Review by Peter Landry

  • The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte Review by by Bill Kent

  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris Review by David Walton

    LA Times
  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris Review by Eugen Weber

  • The Celestina: A Fifteenth Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue by Fernando De Rojas
    Review by Juan Goytisolo

    Friday June 18, 1999
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • A God in Ruins by Leon Uris Review by Harry Levins

    Sunday June 13, 1999
    New York Times Book Review
  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris Review by Stephen King

  • Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters Review by Miranda Seymour

  • Layover by Lisa Zeidner Review by Karen Karbo

  • Elementals by A.S. Byatt Review by Fernando Eberstadt

  • Last Things by Jenny Offill Review by Nancy Willard

  • Hadrian's Walls by Robert Draper Review by Sara Mosle

  • The Nanny and the Iceberg by Ariel Dorfman Review by Shashi Tharoor

  • Getting Used to Not Being Remarkable by Michael Foley Review by David Sacks

  • Local Girls by Alice Hoffman Review by Sarah Ferguson

  • An Equal Music by Vikram Seth Review by Nicholas Christopher

    Books in Brief:
  • King: A Street Story by John Berger Review by Brigitte Frase

  • My Phantom Husband by Marie Darrieussecq Review by Charles Flowers

  • Snow Man by Carolyn Chute Review by Dwight Garner

  • Doors: Stories by William Hoffman Review by Alanna Nash

  • Poachers by Tom Franklin Review by Bruce Barcott

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Late Mr. Shakespeare by Robert Nye Review by Daniel McMahon

  • In September, the Light Changes: The Stories of Andrew Holleran
    Review by Michael Dirda

  • Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison Review by Jonathan Yardley

    Poetry:
  • Elegy for the Southern Drawl by Rodney Jones
  • Winter Hours by Mary Oliver
  • Shells by Craig Arnold
    Review by Allan Jalon

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson Review by Sarah Van Arsdale

  • In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran Review by Jason Friedman

  • The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst Review by David Wiegand

  • Lord of the Barnyard by Tristan Egolf Review by Andrew Roe

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Palace by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran Review by Edna Stumpf

    LA Times
  • England, England by Julian Barnes Review by Jonathan Levi

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Review by Kern Knapp Sawyer

  • Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison Review by Rafia Zafar

  • The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte Review by Susan C. Hegger

    Thursday June 10, 1999
    New York Times
  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    Wednesday June 9, 1999
    New York Times
  • The Artist's Widow by Shena Mackay Review by Richard Eder

    Washington Post
  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris Review by Jabari Asim

    Sunday June 6, 1999
    New York Times Book Review
  • Iolani: or, Tahiti as it Was by Wilkie Collins Review by James R. Kincaid

  • Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith Review by Carl Hiassen

  • The Orphan Game by Ann Darby Review by Valerie Sayers

  • Me and the Fat Man by Julie Myerson Review by Deborah Weisgall

  • The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte Review by Walter Satterthwait

  • Nude in Tub: Stories of Quillifarkeag, Maine by G.K. Wuori Review by Chris Solomon

  • How Animals Mate: Stories by Daniel Mueller Review by Nora Krug

  • A Tent in This World by William Fense Weaver Review by Michael Caesar

    Washington Post Book World
  • Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith Review by Nina King

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen Review by karen Heller

  • An Equal Music by Vikram Seth Review by Shankar Vedantam

  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace Review by Dan DeLuca

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith Review by Andrei Codrescu

  • Collecting Sins by Steven Sobel Review by Jeanne Fay

  • Damascus by Richard Beard Review by Michael Rosenthal

    LA Times
    First Fiction
  • Sinatraland by Sam Kashne
  • By the Shore by Galaxy Craze
  • Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie
  • Hadrian's Walls by Robert Draper
  • Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Discoveries;
  • Music for Torching by A.M. Holmes
  • Who's Irish by Gish Jen
  • Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Friday June 4, 1999
    New York Times
  • Who's Irish by Gish Jen Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Washington Post
  • Another World by Pat Barker Review by Carolyn See

    Thursday June 3, 1999
    New York Times
  • Battle Creek by Scott Lasser Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    Wednesday June 2, 1999
    New York Times
  • Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer Review by Richard Eder

    Tuesday June 1, 1999
    New York Times
  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Washington Post
  • Fleur De Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie Review by Wendy Law-Yone


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