Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction

March 2001

Sunday March 25, 2001 New York Times Book Review Faithless: Tales of Transgression by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Colin Harrison The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes by Marcel Theroux Review by John Lanchester Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez Review by Karl Taro Greenfeld Spikes by Michael Griffith Review by Bradley S. Klein Potshot by Robert B. Parker Review by Marilyn Stasio Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey Review by Claire Dederer Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb American Fuji by Sara Backer Review by Susan Chira Right as Rain by George P. Pelecanos Review by Charles Taylor Books in Brief: Loose Ends by Neal Bowers Review by Gavin McNett Boogie-Woogie by Danny Moynihan Review by Christopher Atamian Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy Review by Helen Pitt The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez Revier by Michael Porter Turning On the Girls by Cheryl Benard Review by Sara Ivry I'm Gone by Jean Echenoz Review by Paul Kafka-Gibbons Washington Post Book World Dreamcatcher by Stephen King Review by Jabari Asim A Painted House by John Grisham Review by Noel Perrin My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain Review by Lynn Freed The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh Review by Gregory Feeley Gold Fools by Gilbert Sorrentino Review by Paul Di Filippo Monstruary by Julian Rios Review by Michael Dirda San Francisco Chronicle Turning on the Girls by Cheryl Benard Review by Erik Tarloff The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes Review by Carey Harrison Goats by Mark Jude Poirer Review by Andrew Roe The Hell Screens by Alvin Lu Review by Jill Meyers Leaving Tabasco by Carmen Boullosa Review by Irina Reyn Over the Shoulder by Leonard Chang Review by Dan Levy Philadelphia Inquirer Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Review by Harvey Shepard The Beyond by Jeffrey Ford Review by Andrew Ervin Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes Review by Steven Rea LA Times Death Benefits by Thomas Perry Review by Eugen Weber Chicago Tribune The Rights of Desire by Andre Brink Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet St. Louis Post Dispatch A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore Review by Martha K. Baker Dreamcatcher by Stephen King Review by Mandy Davis Sunday March 18, 2001 New York Times Book Review Border Crossing by Pat Barker Review by Richard Eder Here's To You, Jesusa by Elena Poniatowska Review by Wendy Gimbel Monstuary by Julian Rios Review by Nicholas Fox Weber Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe Review by Tom Gilling Books in Brief: Music For the Third Ear by Susan Schwartz Senstad This Is the World by W.S. Penn Review by Liza Featherstone Boy Still Missing by John Searles Review by Peter Khoury Back From the Dead by Chris Petit Review by Christopher Atamian Lemon by Lawrence Krauser This Shape We're In by Jonathan Lethem Review by Jennifer Reese Washington Post Book World Boy Still Missing by John Searles Review by Lydia Millet Fiction: Loose Ends by Neal Bower Leaving Tabasco by Carmen Boullosa Swimming Toward the Ocean by Carole L. Glickfeld Do Try to Speak as We Do: The Diary of an American Au Pair by Marjorie Leet Ford Review by Erica Da Costa A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore Review by Nicholas Delbanco Slow Emergencies by Nancy Huston Review by Lisa Russ Spaar The Interpreter by Suzanne Glass Review by Jennifer Howard Tattoo Girl by Brooke Stevens Review by Carrie Brown San Francisco Chronicle Fat Bald Jeff by Leslie Stella Review by Michael Cart Trailer Girl by Terese Svoboda Review by Francie Lin Lunch With Elizabeth David by Roger Williams Review by Judith Rascoe The Last Cantata by Philippe Delelis Review by Cecile Alduy Recent History by Anthony Giardina Review by David Wiegand Chicago Tribune Martyr's Crossing by Amy Wilentz Review by Neil Gordon Girlfriend 44 by Mark Barrowcliffe Speaking With the Angel: Edited by Nick Hornby Review by Steve Mills Recent History by Anthony Giardina Review by Wilton Barnhardt The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez Review by Diana Abu-Jaber The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson Review by Danielle Allen Philadelphia Inquirer The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett Review by John Brumfield LA Times Little Boys Come From the Stars by Emanuel Dongala Review by Susie Linfield Returning Lost Loves by Yehoshua Kenaz Review by Jonathan Levi Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez Review by Ann Louise Bardach Friday March 16, 2001 New York Times Border Crossing by Pat Barker Review by Michiko Kakutani Tuesday March 13, 2001 New York Times The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes by Marcel Theroux Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday March 11, 2001 New York Times Book Review Martyr's Crossing by Amy Wilentz Review by Claire Messud Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman Review by Jennifer Schuessler Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark Review by Richard Eder Sweet Hearts by Melanie Rae Thon Review by Maile Meloy Speech! Speech! by Geoffrey Hill Review by David Bromwich Recent History by Anthony Giardina Review by Jessica Olin Books in Brief: Going, Going, Gone by Jack Womack Review by Etelka Lehocky Trailer Girl and Other Stories by Terese Svoboda Review by Nikki Dillon Cairo Traffic by Lloyd Schwartz Review by David Kirby War Memorial by Clint McCown Review by Emily Hall Collected Stories by Arthur C. Clarke Review by Mark Athitakis Washington Post Book World Goats by Mark Jude Poirer Review by Maria Russo Bad Timing by Betsy Berne Review by Ana Marie Cox Returning Lost Loves by Yehoshua Kenaz Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet San Francisco Chronicle Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman Review by Sarah Coleman Dreamcatcher by Stephen King Review by Alan Cheuse Here's to You, Jesusa by Elena Poniatowska Kissing the Virgin's Mouth by Donna M. Gershten Review by Jules Siegel Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy Review by Barbara Schultz Philadelphia Inquirer Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark Review by Paula Friedman Chicago Tribune Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey Review by Michael Upchurch Bargains in the Real World by Elizabeth Cox Review by Conan Putnam Monstruary by Julian Rios Review by James Polk LA Times Flint by Paul Eddy Review by Peter Green Discoveries: Martyr's Crossing by Amy Wilentz Review by Susan Salter Reynolds The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner Review by Meghan O'Rourke The Body Artist by Don DeLillo Review by Nicole Krauss Sunday March 4, 2001 New York Times Book Review Singing Boy by Dennis McFarland Review by Allegra Goodman Eclipse by John Banville Review by Jim Shepard My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain Review by Catherine Lockerbie Collected Poems by James Merrill Review by Daniel Mendelsohn City Sister Silver by Jachym Topol Review by Neil Bermel Elvis and Nixon by Jonathan Lowy Review by Alanna Nash A Painted House by John Grisham Review by Christopher Dickey Books in Brief: Speaking With the Angel: Original Stories Edited by Nick Hornby Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams The Interpreter by Suzanne Glass Review by Emily Hall My Only Story by Monica Wood Review by Jeff Wagonner The Flower Boy by Karen Roberts Review by Anderson Tepper Louise in Love by Mary Jo Bang Review by David Kirby Washington Post Book World Elvis and Nixon by Jonathan lowy Review by David Greenberg I'm Gone by Jean Echenoz Review by Michael Dirda Girl Talk by Julianna Baggott Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding Review by Abby Frucht Mystic River by Dennis Lehane Review by David Corn San Francisco Chronicle Secret Love by Bart Schneider Review by Gerald Shapiro Carbon Dreams by Susan M. Gaines Review by Thomas Christensen The Interpreter by Suzanne Glass Review by Sarah Coleman Border Crossing by Pat Barker Review by Floyd Skloot Island by Alistair MacLeod Review by Alan Cheuse Philadelphia Inquirer The Funeral Party by Ludmila Ulitskaya Review by Carlin Romano Chicago Tribune Mystic River by Dennis Lehane Right as Rain by George P. Pelecanos A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly Review by Gary Dretzka The Fourth Angel by Suzanne Chazin Review by Chris Petrakos Demonology by Rick Moody Review by Peter Bricklebank Everyday People by Stewart O'Nan Review by Manuel Luis Martinez Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark Review by Robert E. Hosmer LA Times Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman Review by Elsa Dixler Eclipse by John Banville Review by Jonathan Levi St. Louis Post Dispatch Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy Review by Gail Pennington The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh Review by Harper Barnes Everyday People by Stewart O'Nan Review by Helen Verongos February 2001 List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site