Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction

May 2001

Thursday May 31, 2001 New York Times Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Review by Janet Maslin Tuesday May 27, 2001 New York Times Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston Review by Michiko Kakutani Friday May 25, 2001 New York Times A Few Corrections by Brad Leithauser Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday May 27, 2001 New York Times Book Review My Little Blue Dress by Bruno Maddox Review by Emily Barton A Perfect Arrangement by Suzanne Berne Review by Elizabeth Graver Fighting Gravity by Pegy Rambach Review by Albert Mobilio The Dying Animal by Philip Roth Review by A.O. Scott The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner Review by Angeline Goreau Books in Brief: Choke by Chuck Palahniuk Review by Jennifer Reese The Rose City: Stories by David Ebershoff Review by Charles Wilson You Think You Hear by Matt O"Keefe Review by Barbara Sutton The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen Review by Dana Kennedy David's Story by Zoe Wicomb Review by Tomm Beer I Don't Want To Go To Jail by Jimmy Breslin Review by Charles Salzberg Washington Past Book World Choke by Chuck Palahnuik Review by G. Beato The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell Review by Lawrence Block The Song of the Earth by Hugh Nissenson Review by Elizabeth Hand Empire Falls by Richard Russo Review by Dan Cryer San Francisco Chronicle Choke by Chuck Palahnuik Review by Tamara Straus The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy Review by David L. Ulin Talking in the Dark by Laura Glen Louis Review by Robin Beeman Chicago Tribune Empire Falls by Richard Russo Review by Lynna Williams Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Review by Robert Hellenga Juniper Tree Burning by Goldberry Long Review by Melissa Pritchard Philadelphia Inquirer The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert Review by Donald Newlove The Far Field by Edie Meidav Review by Rhonda Dickey The Collected Stories of Richard Yates Easter Parade by Richard Yates Review by Dan DeLuca Boston Globe Short Takes Dupont Circle by Paul Kafka-Gibbons All We Know of Heaven by Remy Rougeau Review by Amanda Heller Electric Light by Seamus Heaney Review by Thomas O'Grady LA Times The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray Review by Jonathan Levi First Fiction: Cranberry Queen by Kathleen DeMarco American Son by Brian Ascalon Loverboy by Victoria Redel Review by Mark Rozzo Discoveries: Sylvia and Teda by Emma Tennant Only Humana: Divine Comedy by Jenny Diski Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom Review by Regina Marler St. Louis Post Dispatch Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen Review by Sarah Bryan Miller The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell Review by Harper Barnes Sunday May 20, 2001 New York Times Book Review The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance by Benjamin Anastas Review by Jacqueline Carey The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy Review by Laura Miller P.S. by Helen Schulman Review by Bliss Broyard Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler Review by John Leonard All We Know of Heaven by Remy Rougeau Review by Eric Weinberger The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray Review by Carey Harrison Two Murders in My Double Life by Josef Skvorecky Review by Neil Bermel Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler Review by Margot Livesey The Love-Artist by Jane Alison Review by Richard Eder Washington Post Book World Strange Fire by Melvin Jules Bukiet Review by Gloria Emerson Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler Review by Alice McDermott I, Roger Williams by Mary Lee Settle Review by Zofia Smardz The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner Review by John Derbyshire Big as Life: Three Tales for Spring by Maureen Howard Review by Doris Grumbach John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead Review by Ishmael Reed San Francisco Chronicle Glue by Irvine Welsh Review by Porter Shreve Good on Bed by Jennifer Weiner Review by Claire Splan 25 New Nigerian Poets: Edited by Toyin Adewale Review by Carmella Ciuraru The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Mister Review by Mark Luce Philadelphia Inquirer The Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge Review by Justin Coffin Collected Poems 1952-2000 by Richard Murphy Review by George Held The Living Blood by Tananarive Due Review by Shannon Geary Boston Globe The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell Review by Amy Graves St. Louis Post-Dispatch John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead Review by John Freeman LA Times Discoveries: Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler Big as Life by Maureen Howard Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Sunday May 13, 2001 New York Times Book Review Glue by Irvine Welsh Review by Jonathan Lethem John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead Review by Jonathan Franzen Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux Review by Sven Birkerts Leaving Tabasco by Carmen Boullosa Review by Sandra Tsing Loh Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez Review by Maggie Galehouse A Few Corrections by Brad Leithauser Review by Adam Begley Little Boys Come From the Stars by Emmanuel Dongala Review by Jonathan Mahler The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert Review by David Sacks Books in Brief: The Brutal Language of Love: Stories by Alicia Erian Review by Barbara Sutton The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Review by Philip Gambone The Cosmology of Bing by Mitch Cullin Review by Bruce Allen Gardener to the King by Frederic Richaud Review by Helen Pitt America's Children by James Thackara Review by William Ferguson The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck Review by Melanie Rehak San Francisco Chronicle The Dying Animal by Philip Roth Review by Gerald Shapiro Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler Review by Monica Wood Mouthing the Words by Camilla Gibb Review by Drew Cherry Visible Spirits by Steve Yarbrough Review by Jonathan Kiefer Skirts and Slacks by W.S. Di Piero Review by Carmella Ciuraru The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner Review by Martin Rubin Chicago Tribune The Shape of Things to Come by Maud Casey First Guide by Gwendolen Gross Lick Creek by Brad Kessler Goats by Mark Jude Poirer No One Thinks of Greenland by John Griesemer Review by Dawn Marlan Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen Review by Sandra Scofield Boston Globe Leaving Tabasco by Carmen Boullosa Review by Monica L. Williams The Rights of Desire by Andre Brink Review by Anna Mundow Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler Review by Gail Caldwell St. Louis Post-Dispatch Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner Review by Colleen Kelly The Dying Animal by Philip Roth Review by Dale Singer The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble Review by Roland A. Champagne LA Times Border Crossing by Pat Barker Review by Michael Frank Sunday May 6, 2001 New York Times Book Review Sister Crazy by Emma Richler Review by Marcel Theroux Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin Review by Gary Krist The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble Review by Daphne Merkin Mouthing the Words by Camilla Gibb Review by Claire Dederer Outcast by Jose Latour Review by Charles Taylor The Shape of Things to Come by Maud Casey Review by Valerie Sayers In the Company of Angels by N.M. Kelby Review by Diana Postlethwaite A Heart so Dark Dark Back of Time by Javier Marias Review by Wendy Lesser Primrose Hill by Helen Falconer Review by Richard Gehr Greetings From the Golden State by Leslie Brenner Review by Alice Dark Goats by Mark Jude Poirier Review by Tom Perrotta Washington Post Book World The Dying Animal by Philip Roth Review by Michael Dirda Two Murders in My Double Life by Josef Skvorecky Review by James Hynes Mr. Mee by Andrew Crumey Review by Andrew C. Ervin The Living Blood by Tananarive Due Review by Gregory Feeley The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve Review by Susan Dooley The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy Review by Chris Lehmann San Francisco Chronicle Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan Review by David Kipen Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin Review by Jacob Molyneux Crawling at Night by Nani Power Review by Tess Taylor Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom Review by Megan Harlan A Few Corrections by Brad Leithauser Review by Tony Mastrogiogio Philadelphia Inquirer The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble Review by Maggie Galehouse The Dying Animal by Philip Roth Review by Carlin Romano Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner Review by Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Coming Back to Me by Caroline Leavitt Review by Paula Friedman Chicago Tribune Hot Johnny (and the Women Who Loved Him) by Sandra Jackson-Opoku Review by Jennifer Hunt Five-Finger Discount by Helene Stapinski Review by Jacki Lyden Dream of the Walled City by Lisa Huang Fleischman The Moon Pearl by Ruthanne Lum McCunn The Lily Theater by Lulu Wang An Empire of Women by Karen Shepard Review by Jan Nguyen Boston Globe The Collected Stories of Richard Yates Review by Gail Caldwell Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez Review by Barbara Fisher Kinship Theory by Hester Kaplan Review by Susannah Ketchum St. Louis Post Dispatch Empire Falls by Richard Russo Review by Harry Levins LA Times The Dying Animal by Philip Roth Review by Lee Siegel The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Review by Laurie Stone April 2001 List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site