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

Sunday March 26, 2000
New York Times Book Review
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Review by Robert Kelly

  • The Fig Eater by Jody Shields Review by Judith Shulevitz

  • The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan Review by Meghan O'Rourke

  • Fiction and Lies by Irina Ratushinskaya Review by Richard Lourie

  • Pure Poetry by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Sarah Ferguson

    Books in Brief:
  • North Street:Poems by Jonathan Galassi Review by David Kirby

  • A Slow Burning by Stanley Pottinger Review by Megan Harlan

  • Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown Review by Jennifer Reese

  • Boy Island by Camden Joy Review by Mark Athitakis

  • The Lion in the Room Next Door by Merilyn Simonds Review by Andy Solomon

  • Second Hand by Michael Zadoorian Review by Sally Eckoff

    Washington Post
  • Blue Angel by Francine Prose Review by Michael Dirda

  • The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher Review by Susan Dooley

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan Review by Larry Swindell

  • Begin Again Collected Poems by Grace Paley Review by Stephen DiLauro

  • Tea by Stacy D'Erasmo Review by Maggie Galehouse

    Sunday March 19, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Hook by Donald Westlake Review by Valerie Sayers

  • Gambler's Rose by G.W. Hawkes Review by Porter Shreve

  • Equal Love: Stories by Peter Ho Davies Review by Jacqueline Carey

  • The Ascetic of Desire: A Novel of the Kamasutra by Sudhir Kakar Review by Edward Hower

  • Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems by Wyatt Prunty Review by Melanie Rehak

  • Everything in the Country Must: A Novella and Two Stories by Colum McCann Review by Charles Taylor

  • Animal Triste by Monika Maron Review by Noah Isenberg

  • Blackden by Duncan McLean Review by Henry Shukman

    Books in Brief:
  • Nickel and Dime by Gary Soto Review by Laura Ciolkowski

  • Run by Douglas E. Winter Review by Ray Sawhill

  • Harbor Light by Theodore Weesner Review by Scott Sutherland

  • Acts of Mutiny by Derek Beaven Review by Mark Schoone

  • Riddle of Stars by Pierce Butler Review by Robert Allen Papinchak

    Washington Post Book World
  • S: A Novel of the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic Review by Joanne Omang

  • On Parole by Akira Yoshimura Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Molly by Nancy J. Jones Review by Roland Merullo

    Fiction:
  • Rails Under My Back by Jeffrey Renard Allen
  • The Realm of Secondhand Souls by Sandra Shea
  • The Hotel Alleluia by Lucinda Roy
    Review by Robert Allen Papinchak

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Scandalmonger by William Safire Review by Andrea Behr

  • Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong Review by Andrew X. Pham

  • Period by Dennis Cooper Review by Dodie Bellamy

  • Pilgim by Tomothy Findley Review by Sheila Farr

  • How To Murder a Man by Carlo Gebler Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • City of God by E.L. Doctorow Review by Michael Harrington

  • Fay by Larry Brown Review by Diane Scharper

    LA Times
  • Mondo Desperado; A Serial Novel by Patrick McCabe Review by Jonathan Levi

    Discoveries:
  • More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon
  • True North by Kimberly Kafka
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra Review by Peter Wolfe

  • Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding Review by Gail Pennington

    Sunday March 12, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • In America by Susan Sontag Review by Sarah Kerr

  • Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid Review by Jhumpa Lahiri

  • Learning Human: Selected Poems by Les Murray Review by Albert Mobilio

  • Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez Review by Maud Casey

  • The Virtuoso by Margriet de Moor Review by Julie Gray

  • Knick Knack Paddy Whack by Ardal O'Hanlon Review by Simon Reynolds

  • The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan Review by Robert Houston

  • Another Song About the King by Kathryn Stern Review by Laura Jamison

  • The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille Review by Neil Gordon

  • The Doctor by Patricia Duncker Review by John Vernon

    Books in Brief:
  • Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell Review by Erik Burns

  • The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson Review by Anthony Bourdain

  • With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore Review by Dana Kennedy

  • The Other Rebecca by Maureen Freely Review by Andrea Higbie

  • The Fifth Season by Robert C.S. Downs Review by Jeff Waggoner

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan Review by Nina King

  • The Natural Order of Things by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Michael Mewshaw

  • Tula Station by David Toscana Review by Patricia J. Duncan

  • The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction: Editied by Colm Toibin Review by Ambrose Clancy

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan Review by Michael Lind

  • Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez Review by Ken Foster

  • Every Day is Mother's Day
  • Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel
    Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Slab Rat by Ted Heller Review by Jennie Yabroff

  • Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies Review by Brian Schwartz

  • Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull Review by Thomas Orton

  • Shame the Devil by George P. Pelecanos Review by Paul Skenazy

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney Review by David R. Slavitt

  • In America by Susan Sontag Review by Joan Mellen

  • Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding Review by Karen Heller

  • Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike Review by Peter Rock

    LA Times
  • The Barbarians are Coming by David Wong Review by Jonathan Levi

  • The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan Review by Peter Green

    First Fiction
  • Knick Knack Paddy Whack by Ardal O'Hanlon
  • Reap by Erica Rickstad
  • The Chivalry of Crime by Desmond Barry
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Discoveries
  • Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon
  • The Wishing Box by Dashka Slater
  • Skateaway by Michael Grant Jaffe
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • Make Believe by Joanna Scott Review by Julie Failla Earhart

  • Mr. Spaceman by Robert Olin Butler Review by Repps Hudson

  • The Gates of the Alamo by Stpehen Harrigan Review by Dorman T. Shindler

    Friday March 10, 2000
    New York Times
  • Mr. Spaceman by Robert Olen Butler Review by Michiko Kakutani
    Washington Post
  • Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel; Devised and Edited by Dermot Bolger Review by Carolyn See

    Wednesday, March 8, 2000
    New York Times
  • The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson Review by Richard Bernstein

    Tuesday March 7, 2000
    New York Times
  • Make Believe by Joanna Scott Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday March 5, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • City of God by E.L. Doctorow Review by A.O. Scott

  • Water, Carry Me by Thomas Moran Review by Stephen Amidon

  • Two Moons by Thomas Mallon Review by Frederick Busch

  • In the Name of the Wolf by John F. Deane Review by David Willis McCullough

  • The Suburbs of Heaven by Merle Drown Review by Jean Thompson

  • Some Things That Stay by Sarah Willis Review by Joanna Scott

    Books in Brief:
  • The Mask Carver's Son by Alyson Richman Review by Sara Ivry

  • American by Blood by Andrew Huebner Review by Steven Varni

  • Meely Labauve by Ken Wells Review by Jeff Waggoner

  • Battle Creek by Scott Lasser Review by Emily Barton

  • The Law of Return: Short Stories by Maxine Rodburg Review by Fran Handman

  • Nothing is Terrible by Matthew Sharpe Review by Christine Muhlke

    Washington Post
  • In America by Susan Sontag Review by Richard Lourie

  • The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra Review by Marie Arana

  • City of God by E.L. Doctorow Review by Madison Smartt Bell

  • The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan Review by Ron Franscell

  • Lieutenant-Colonel De Maumort by Roger Martin du Gard Review by Dennis Drabelle

  • The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd Review by Michael Dirda

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet

  • The Missing World by Margot Livesey Review by Jill P. Capuzzo

  • Everything You Know by Zoe Heller Review by Steven Rea

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Barbarians Are Coming by David Wong Review by David Wiegand

  • Beowulf by Seamus Heaney Review by Cynthia L. Haven

  • The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio

  • Knick Knack Paddy Whack by Ardal O'Hanlon Review by Jeffrey Bartlett
    LA Times
  • The Natural Order of Things by Antonio Lobo Antunes Review by Richard Zenith

    Discoveries:
  • Everything in This Country Must by Colum McCann
  • Period by Dennis Cooper
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • On Parole by Akira Yoshimura Review by Susan Rhodenbaugh

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