Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
March 2002

Sunday March 31, 2002
New York Times Book Review
  • Wavemaker II by Mary-Beth Hughes Review by Beverly Lowry

  • The House of Blue Mangoes by Dabid Davidar Review by Akash Kapur

  • The Darts of Cupid: and Other Stories by Edith Templeton Review by Daphne Merkin

  • The Siege by Helen Dunmore Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Gigantic: Stories by Marc Nesbitt Review by Sam Sifton

  • The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini Review by Stacy Schiff

    Books in Brief:
  • Spadework by Timothy Findley Review by William Ferguson

  • The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian Review by Amy Benfer

  • The Way to Somewhere by Angie Day Review by Jonathan Kiefer

  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Review by Adam Maszmanian

  • Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

  • The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin Review by Ken Tucker

    Washington Post Book World
  • Sharpe's Prey by Bernard Cornwell Review by Ken Ringle

  • Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy Review by Holly Ross

  • The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian Review by Linda Barrett Osborne

  • Darlington's Fall by Brad Leithauser Review by Michael Lind

  • The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth Review by Thomas McGonigle

  • The Haunting of L by Howard Norman Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe Review by David Kipen

  • The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson Review by Michael Berry

  • Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario Review by Jesse Berrett

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Wetware by Craig Nova Review by Phaedra Trethan

  • Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Larry Swindell

  • Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown Review by Diane Scharper

    Chicago Tribune
  • Oxygen by Andrew Miller Review by Michael Upchurch

  • Darlington's Fall by Brad Leithauser Review by Jeff Dolven

    LA Times
  • The English Assassin by Daniel Silva Review by Michael Harris

  • The Reporter by Kelly Lange Review by Erica Sanders

    First Fiction:
  • A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
  • No Place, Louisiana by Martin Pousson
  • The Cyclist by Viken Berberian
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • Darlington's Fall by Brad Leithauser Review by Jonathan Levi

  • Rhapsody in Plain Yellow by Marilyn Chin
  • Sleeping With the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
  • Subterranean by Jill Biaslosky
    Review by Carol Muske-Dukes

    Discoveries:
  • Achilles by Elizabeth Cook Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Friday March 29, 2002
    New York Times
  • Bad Blood by Lorna Sage Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Thursday March 28, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Impressionist by Hari Kunzu Review by Janet Maslin

    Tuesday March 26, 2002
    New York Times
  • Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday March 24, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe Review by Richard Eder

  • Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Review by Janet Burroway

  • Insect Dreams by Marc Estin Review by Ken Tucker

  • Number9Dream by David Mitchell Review by Damiel Zalewski

    Washington Post Book World
  • Billie's Kiss by Elizabeth Knox Review by Liza Featherstone

  • By the Lake by John McGahern Review by Frances Stead Sellers

  • The Translator by John Crowley Review by Howard Norman

  • The Caves of Perigord by Martin Walker Review by Michael Kernan

    Fiction:
  • Beyond Illusion by Duong Thu Huong
  • Gone by Martin Roper
  • Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter by Delphine Red Shirt
  • Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty
  • Enemy Woman by Paulette Jiles
    Review by Carmela Ciuraru

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • By the Lake by John McGahern Review by Anthony Giardina

  • The Varieties of Romantic Experience by Robert Cohen Review by David Kipen

  • A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper Review by Megan Harlan

  • The Translator by John Crowley Review by Miriam Wolf

  • Gigantic by Marc Nesbitt Review by David Wiegand

  • Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles Review by Mark Luce

  • The Red Dancer by Richard Skinner Review by Laura Ciolkowski

    Chicago Tribune
  • Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty Review by Conan Putnam

  • The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu Review by Miranda Schwartz

  • Kill Your Darlings by Terence Blacker Review by Laurie Muchnick

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan Review by Lionel Shriver

    LA Times
  • In the Forest by Edna O'Brien Review by Charlotte Innes

  • Night Games; and Otehr Stories and Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler Review by Peter Gay

  • Ode to Lata by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla Review by D.J. Carlile

  • Loving Monsters by James Hamilton-Paterson Review by Peter Green

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • House of Women by Lynn Freed Review by Collen Kelly Warren

    Monday March 18, 2002
    New York Times
  • Everything's Eventual by Stephen King Review by Janet Maslin

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Daughter of Ireland by Julienne Osborne-McKnight Review by Sheri Melnick

    Sunday March 17, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • 2182 Khz by David Masiel Review by Dwight Garner

  • At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill Review by Michael Pye

  • By the Lake by John McGahern Review by John Sutherland

  • Source: Poems by Mark Doty Review by Ruth Padel

  • The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate Review by Elizabeth Judd

  • Claire Marvel by John Brunham Schwartz Review by Valerie Sayers

    Books in Brief:
  • When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe Review by Philip Gambone

  • Without a Name and Under the Tongue by Yvonne Vera Review by Hillary Frey

  • Henderson's Spear by Ronald Wright Review by Diane Scharper

  • Beyond Illusions by Duong Thu Huong Review by Sudip Bose

  • The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland Review by Julie Gray

  • X-Force: New Beginnings by Peter Milligan Review by Ken Tucker

    Washington Post Book World
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • The Varieties of Romantic Experience by Robert Cohen Review by John Derbyshire

  • Everything's Eventual by Stephen King Review by Jane Ciabattari

  • A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford Review by Steven Moore

  • The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini Review by Michael Mewshaw

  • The Darts of Cupid and Other Stories by Edith Templeton Review by Bart Schneider

  • Leaving by Richard Dry Review by Gary Rivlin

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • I'll Let You Go by Bruce Wagner Review by David Kipen

  • The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar Review by Jason Roberts

  • The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian Review by Laura Ciolkowski

  • Anna in the Afterlife by Merrill Joan Review by Martin Rubin

    Chicago Tribune
  • Meant to Be by Rita Coburn Whack Review by Jennifer Hunt

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Seige by Helen Dunmore Review by Lionel Shriver

  • The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland Review by Judith Stein

    LA Times
  • The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth Review by Amy Wilentz

  • The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar Review by Ben Ehrenreich

  • The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Review by Jamie James

    Friday March 15, 2002
    New York Times
  • Number9Dream by David Mitchell Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Thursday March 14, 2002
    New York Times
  • All I Could Never Get by Scott Lasser
  • The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate Review by Janet Maslin

    Wednesday March 13, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Translator by John Crowley Review by Richard Eder

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Hotel World by Ali Smith Review by Paula Freidman

    Sunday March 10, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Varieties of Romantic Experience by Robert Cohen Review by Ken Kalfus

  • Atonement by Ian McEwan Review by Tom Shone

  • Discretion by Elizabeth Nunez Review by Sarah Towers

  • The Doctor's House by Ann Beattie Review by Rand Richards Cooper

  • Homo Zapiens by Victor Pelevin Review by Anthony Quinn

  • Violence, Nudity, Adult Content by Vince Passaro Review by James Marcus

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Wise Women of Havana by Jose Raul Bernardo Review by Joanne Omang

  • The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar Review by Alice K. Turner

  • A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity by Whitney Otto Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • The Return of the Caravels by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet

    Poetry:
  • Rise by A. Van Jordan
  • 25 New Nigerain Poets
  • Bum Rush This Page: a Def Poetry Jam
    Review by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan Review by David Wiegand

  • The Return of the Caravels by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Alan Kaufman

  • Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos Review by Mark Luce

  • New Collected Poems by George Oppen Review by Andrew Ervin

  • Where You Find It by Janice Galloway Review by Ayelet Waldman

  • The Last Stand of Mr. America by Jason Flores-Williams Review by Dodie Bellamy

    Chicago Tribune
  • By the Lake by John McGahern
  • The Fall of Light by Niall Williams
    Review by Floyd Skloot

  • Atonement by Ian McEwan Review by Alan Cheuse

  • A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford Review by David L. Ulin

  • The Siege by Helen Dunmore Review by Dan Cryer

  • Roscoe by William Kennedy Review by Jason Berry

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Shadows and Elephants by Edward Hower Review by Susan Balee

  • A Place Called Trinity by Delia Parr Review by Martha Woodall

    LA Times
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan Review by Daphne Merkin

    First Fiction:
  • 10th Grade by Joseph Weisberg
  • Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty
  • It's How You Play the Game by Jimmy Gleacher
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • Henderson's Spear by Ronald Wright Review by D.J. Carlile

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin Review by Dawn Fallik

    Friday March 8, 2002
    New York Times
  • Homo Zapiens by Victor Pelevin Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Thursday March 7, 2002
    New York Times
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Wednesday March 6, 2002
    New York Times
  • A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity by Whitney Otto Review by Janet Maslin

    Monday March 4, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday March 3, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Shell Collector: Stories by Anthony Doerr Review by Nancy Willard

  • A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford Review by Colson Whitehead

  • Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin Review by Jonathan Rosen

  • Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre Review by Rob Walker

    Books in Brief:
  • Whitegirl by Kate Manning Review by Martha Southgate

  • Shackling Water by Adam Mansbach Review by Adam Baer

  • Shadows and Elephants by Edward Hower Review by Erik Burns

  • The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn Review by King Kaufman

  • Zeeland by Hans Koning Review by William Ferguson

  • Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride Review by Charles Wilson

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing Review by Beth Kephart

  • Homo Zapiens by Victor Pelevin Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe Review by Chris Lehmann

  • Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg Review by Elizabeth Roca

  • Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride Review by James Sallis

  • The War at Home by Nora Eisenberg Review by Robin Dougherty

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Birthday of the World by Ursula LeGuin Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini Review by John Freeman

  • Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oe Review by Heller McAlpin

  • What We Won't Do: Stories by Brock Clarke Review by Jeff Galipeaux

  • The Wise Women of Havana by Jose Raul Bernardo Review by Jim Piechota

  • Unknown Destination by Maya Rasker Review by Alan Kaufman

    Chicago Tribune
  • Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos Review by Dick Adler

  • Ghost of Bridgetown by Debra Spark Review by Carmela Ciuraru

  • The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing Review by Shelby Hearon

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Goodnight, Sweet Prince by David Dickinson Review by Edna Stumpf

  • The Silent Lady by Catherine Cookson Review by Scotia W. MacRae

  • Tishomongo Blues by Elmore Leonard Review by Micahel Harrington

  • Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride Review by Tom Moon

  • Absolute Zero by Chuck Logan Review by Sandy Bauers

    LA Times
  • The Golems of Gotham by Thane Rosenbaum Review by David Klinghoffer

  • Billancourt Tales by Nina Berberova Review by Michael Frank

  • Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Review by Brigitte Frase

    Friday March 1, 2002
    New York Times
  • Leaving Katya by Paul Greenberg Review by Richard Eder

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