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

Friday May 31, 2002
New York Times
  • A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Thursday May 30, 2002
    New York Times
  • Under Radar by Michael Tolkin Review by Janet Maslin

    Tuesday May 28, 2002
    New York Times
  • Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Monday May 27, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters by Timothy Schaffert Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday May 26, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley Review by Maria Russo

  • Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry Review by Neil Gordon

  • Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan Review by Ruth Franklin

  • The Serious Game by Hjalmar Soderberg Review by Bruce Bawer

    Books in Brief:
  • Inez by Carlos Fuentes Review by Charles Wilson

  • Waterborne by Linda Gregerson Review by Megan Harlan

  • God's Fool by Mark Slouka Review by Emily Hall

  • The True sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone Review by William Ferguson

  • What We Won't Do by: Stories by Brock Clarke Review by Maggie Galehouse

  • Sparrow Nights by David Gilmour Review by Emily Gordon

    Washington Post Book World
  • I by Stephen Dixon Review by Steven Moore

  • Oxygen by Andrew Miller Review by Susie Linfield

  • The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel Review by Katherine A. Powers

  • Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
  • A Cup of Light by Nicole Mones
  • Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller
  • The Making of June by Annie Ward
  • Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson
    Review by Juliet Wittman

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • In the Clear by Steve Lopez Review by David Kipen

  • The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane Review by James Brown

  • Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry Review by Kevin Smokler

  • The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison Review by Ken Foster

  • Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove Review by Dodie Bellamy

  • Dreaming Water by Gail Tsukiyama Review by Sara Ivry

  • Stealing the Fire by Jane Ciabattari Review by Judy Doenges

  • Simon Silber: Works for Solo Piano by Christopher Miller Review by Jonathan Kiefer

  • I Don't Know But I've Been Told by Raul Correa Review by Alex Tarquinio

  • The Curve of the World by Marcus Stevens Review by Jennie Yabroff

    Chicago Tribune
  • Three Junes by Julias Glass Review by Laura Ciolkowski

  • The Weather in Berlin by Ward Just Review by Michale Upchurch

  • Inez by Carlos Fuentes Review by Alan Cheuse

    Philadelphia Inquierer
  • In the Clear by Steve Lopez Review by Frank Wilson

  • The Haunting of L by Howard Norman Review by Lionel Shriver

  • Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid Review by Elisa Ludwig

    Sunday May 19, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Strength of the Sun by Catherine Chidgey Review by Gary Krist

  • Never: Poems by Jorie Graham Review by Sven Birkerts

  • The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane Review by Paul Gray

  • Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson Review by Frederick Busch

  • The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron Review by Lavinia Greenlaw

  • Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems by Grace Schulman Review by Wyatt Prunty

    Washington Post Book World
  • Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent Review by Georgia Jones-Davis

  • Women About Town by Laura Jacobs Review by Susan Coll

  • The Women Who Gave Birth To Rabbits by Emma Donoghue Review by Carrie Brown

  • The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner Review by Elizabeth Hand

  • The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison Review by Aoibheann Sweeney

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Think of England by Alice Elliott Dark Review by Ken Foster

  • Mr. Potter by Jamiaca Kincaid Review by Andrew Roe

  • Her by Laura Zigman Review by Jennie Yabroff

  • Haitian Trilogy by Derek Walcott Review by Cynthia Haven

  • Ernie's Ark by Monica Wood Review by Kevin Smokler

  • Married: a Fine Predicament by Anne Roiphe Review by Regan McMahon

  • The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron Review by John Freeman

    Chicago Tribune
  • Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw Review by Michael Upchurch

  • Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson Review by Lynna Williams

  • Disappearing Ingenue by Melissa Pritchard Review by Sandra Scofield

  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Review by Molly McQuade

  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel Review by Steven G. Kellman

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Company by Robert Littell Review by Larry Swindell

  • American Sonnets by Gerald Stern Review by Tom Devaney

    LA Times
  • Sons of Heaven by Terrence Cheng Review by ben Schrank

  • The Season of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron Review by Marina Budhos

  • The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez by Jimmy Breslin Review by Michale Harris

    Discoveries:
  • Across Open Ground by Heather Parkinson Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Sunday May 12, 2002
    New York Times
  • Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid Review by Sophie Harrison

  • Unless by Carol Shields Review by Catherine Lockerbie

  • The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer Review by Rob Nixon

  • Interesting Women: Stories by Andrea Lee Review by Jennifer Schuessler

  • The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke Review by Erika Krouse

  • Red Poppies by Alai Review by Barbara Crossette

  • The Translator by John Crowley Review by Jessica Olin

  • Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Katharine Weber

  • Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown Review by Ann Harleman

  • The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru Review by Susannah Meadows

  • The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts Review by Mia Bay

    Books in Brief:
  • The Company by Robert Littell Review by James J. Uebbing

  • Funnymen by Ted Heller Review by Michelle Goldberg

  • The Wooden Nickel by William Carpenter Review by Sally Eckhoff

  • The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories by Emma Donoghue Review by Meredith Blum

  • A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga by Julia Whitty Review by Suzan Sherman

  • The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson Review by Megan Harlan

    Washington Post Book World
  • Her by Laura Zigman Review by Lisa Zeidner

    San Francsico Chronicle
  • Sons of Heaven by Terrence Cheng Review by John Freeman

  • Some of Her Friends That Year by Maxine Chernoff Review by Sarah Coleman

  • Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan Review by Andrew Roe

  • Inez by Carlos Fuentes Review by Dan Cryer

  • America Falls: The Collected Short Stories by Barry Gifford Review by Jeff Galipeaux

  • Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentino Review by Marion Abbott

  • God-Shaped Hole by Tiffanie DeBartolo Review by Jeanne Cooper

  • The Sound of Trees by Robert Payne Gatewood Review by Claire Splan

  • Hunting the Last Wild Man by Angela Vallvey Review by Marisa Silver

  • At the Jim Bridger by Ron Carlson Review by Alan Cheuse

    Chicago Tribune
  • Blues Lesson by Robert Hellenga Review by Jason Berry

  • The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke Review by Kera Bolonik

  • Unless by Carol Shields Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel

  • The Wooden Nickel by William Carpenter Review by Porter Shreve

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Fall of Light by Niall Williams Review by Susan Balee

  • Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oe Review by Andrew Ervin

  • City of Bones by Michael Connelly Review by Sheri Melnick

  • The Freaks Are Winning by Jeff Somers
  • Lifers by Jeff Somers
    Review by Tirdad Derakhshani

    LA Times
  • The Strength of the Sun by Catherine Chidgey Review by D.J. Carlile

    First Fiction:
  • Last Year's Jesus by Ellen Slezak
  • Think of England by Alice Elliott Dark
  • Girl's Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
    Review by Mark Rozzo

  • Unless by Carol Shields Review by Jane Ciabattari

    Sunday May 5, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • Oxygen by Andrew Miller Review by Margot Livesey

  • The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison Review by Maria Russo

  • The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth Review by Richard Lourie

  • Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski Review by Philip Boehm

  • My Happy Life by Lydia Millet Review by Jennifer Reese

  • Lee and Elaine by Ann Rower Review by Catherine Texier

  • The Fall of Light by Niall Williams Review by Diana Postlethwaite

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • Unless by Carol Shields Review by Gail Godwin

  • Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid Review by Robert Antoni

  • Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult Review by Ann Hood

  • Dirt Music by Tim Winton Review by Todd Pruzan

  • The Curve of the World by Marcus Stevens Review by Matt Steinglass

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Walk Through Darkness by David Anthony Durham Review by Adam Dunn

  • Visible Ink by George Starbuck Review by Eric McHenry

  • The Republic of East L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez Review by John Freeman

  • The Season of Lillian Dawes by Katherine Mosby Review by Danielle Svetcov

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Everything's Eventual by Stephen King Review by Martha Woodall

  • Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick Review by Gregory Feeley

    Chicago Tribune
  • In the Forest by Edna O'Brien Review by Valerie Miner

  • The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison Review by Alan Cheuse

    LA Times
  • The Republic of East L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez Review by Jonathan Kirsch

  • The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison Review by Heller McAlpin

  • The Doctor's Wife by Ann Beattie Review by Scott Morris

  • Warning of War by James Brady Review by Michael Harris

    Discoveries:
  • Her by Laura Zigman
  • The Horned Man by James Lasdun
  • American Falls by Barry Gifford
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds


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