Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
May 2004

Monday May 31, 2004
New York Times
  • The Master by Colm Toibin Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday May 30, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Dog Fighter by Marc Bojanowski Review by Sophie Harrison

  • Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath Review by Christopher Benfrey

  • Collected Poems by Philip Larkin Review by Stephen Metcalf

  • Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy Review by Neil Bermel

  • The Body of Jonah Boyd by David Leavitt Review by Claire Dederer

    Books in Brief:
  • Antipodes by Ignacio Padilla Review by James Polk

  • Black by Christopher Whitcomb Review by James Parker

  • The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht Review by Tim Wilson

  • Shooting the Heart by Paul Cody Review by Mark Kamine

  • Some Great Thing by Colin MCAdam Review by Reihan Salam

  • Snakepit by Moses Isegawa Review by Brock Baker

    Washington Post Book World
  • Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall Review by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

  • After by Claire Tristram Review by Jennifer Howard

  • The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason Review by Alice K. Turner

  • Confessions of a Bigamist by Kate Lehrer Review by Lisa Zeidner

  • Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl by Gert Hofmann Review by Michael Dirda

  • A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt
  • A Private Life by Ran Chen
  • The Garden Angel by Mindy Friddle
  • The Sea House by Esther Freud
    Review by Elizabeth Gold

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Wakefield by Andrei Codrescu Review by Michael Scott Moore

  • True North by Jim Harrison Review by Stephen J. Lyons

  • The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck Review by Linda Burnett

  • Desire by Lindsay Ahl Review by Dodie Bellamy

  • Music and Suicide by Jeff Clark
  • Americus: Book I by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Review by Troy Jollimore

  • Shifting Through Neutral by Bridgett M. Davis Review by Amy Westervelt

  • The Place Will Comfort You by Naama Goldstein Review by Amy Westervelt

  • The Body of Jonah Boyd by David Leavitt Review by Kera Bolonik

    Chicago Tribune
  • Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis Review by John Biguenet

  • True North by Jim Harrison Review by Art Winslow

    Thursday May 27, 2004
    New York Times
  • You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon Review by Janet Maslin

    Tuesday May 25, 2004
    New York Times
  • Eventide by Kent Haruf Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday May 23, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Transmission by Hari Kunzru Review by Walter Kirn

  • Making Love by Lucretia Stewart
  • In His Arms by Camille Laurens
  • After by Claire Tristram
  • Faithful by Davitt Sigerson
    Review by Emily Nussbaum

  • You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman Review by Dwight Garner

  • Eventide by Kent Haruf Review by Jonathan Miles

  • True North by Jim Harrison Review by Anthony Quinn

  • Pushkin asnd the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall Review by Lizzie Skurnick

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser Review by Chris Lehmann

  • Eventide by Kent Haruf Review by Christopher Tilghman

  • Q by Luther Blissett Review by David Liss

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • After by Claire Tristram Review by Sylvia Brownrigg

  • Resistance by Barry Lopez
  • Antipodes by Ignacio Padilla
    Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Now Is the Time To Open Your Heart by Alice Walker Review by Nia-Malika Henderson

  • The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen Review by Tomothy Peters

  • Q by Luther Blissett Review by Reagan Upshaw

  • In Summer by Jeremy Jackson Review by David Wiegand

  • Plain Heathen Mischief by Martin Clark Review by Robin Somers

    Chicago Tribune
  • Heaven Lake by John Dalton Review by Robin Henley

  • Resistance by Barry Lopez Review by Donna Seaman

    Boston Globe
  • Scared Time by Ursula Hegi Review by Caledonia Kearns

  • Heaven Lake by John Dalton Review by Nathaniel Bellows

    Newsday
  • Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow Review by Matt Weiland

    Sunday May 16, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Blue Bowl by George Minot Review by Jennifer Schuessler

  • New and Selected Poems, 1974-2004 by Carl Dennis Review by David Orr

  • The Cello Player by Michael Kruger Review by Noah Isenberg

  • Every Time I Talk to Liston by Brian DeVido
  • My Father's Fighter by Ronald K. Fried
    Review by Carlo Rotella

    Books in Brief:
  • Ghost Girl by Amy Gerstler Review by Emily Nussbaum

  • Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry Review by Rodney Welch

  • Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua Review by Charles Wilson

  • The Cradle Place by Thomas Lux Review by Eric McHenry

  • Heaven Lies About Us: Stories by Eugene McCabe Review by Etelka Lehoczky

  • Buddha Da by Anne Donovan Review by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

    Washington Post Book World
  • You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon Review by Tom Perrotta

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Conspirators by Michael Andre Bernstein Review by David Hellman

  • Trapeze by Deborah Digges
  • The Woman I Kept to Myself by Julia Alvarez Review by Cynthia L. Haven

  • The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Krester Review by Brenn Jones

  • The Moon in Its Flight: Stories by Gilbert Sorrentino Review by Andrew Ervin

    Tuesday May 11, 2004
    New York Times
  • Sweetland Stories by E.L. Doctorow Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Sunday May 9, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt Review by Claire Messud

  • The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Krester Review by William Boyd

  • Adventures of the Artificial Woman by Thomas Berger Review by Donald E. Westlake

  • American Desert by Percival Everett
  • A History of the African- American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid
    Review by Sven Birkerts

  • The Sea House by Esther Freud Review by Michale Gorra

    Washington Post Book World
  • Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • Flying Crows by Jim Lehrer Review by Les Roberts

  • Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry Review by George Scialabba

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Eventide by Kent Haruf Review by Brad Vice

  • The Full Matilda by David Haynes Review by Sara Peyton

  • The Trouble Boy by Tom Dolby Review by David Wiegand

  • World Famous Love Acts: Stories by Brian Leung Review by Marianne Rogoff

  • Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua Review by Robert Walch

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk
  • An Empty Room by Talitha Stevenson
    Review by John Freeman

  • The Devil You Know by Wayne Johnson Review by Laura Demanski

    Thursday May 6, 2004
    New York Times
  • The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason Review by Janet Maslin

    Newsday
  • Eventide by Kent Haruf Review by Dan Cryer

    May 5, 2004
    Newsday
  • Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne Review by Gene Seymour

    Monday May 3, 2004
    New York Times
  • The Narrows by Michael Connelly Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday, May 2, 2004
    New York Times Book Review
  • Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne Review by Ward Just

  • The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler Review by Patricia T. O'Conner

  • Emma Brown by Claire Boylan Review by Miranda Seymour

  • Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff Review by Sam Lipsyte

  • New and Selected Poems by Michael Ryan Review by David Kirby

    Books in Brief:
  • Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker Review by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

  • Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver Review by Stephen Burt

  • Nowhere in Africa by Stefanie Zweig Review by Rand Richards Cooper

  • The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck Review by John Hartl

  • The Full Cupboard of Lide by Alexander McCall Smith Review by Alida Becker

  • Hash by Torgny Lindgren Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams

    Washington Post Book World
  • Good Grief by Lolly Winston Review by Ann Hood

  • American Desert by Percival Everett Review by James Hynes

  • The Maze by Panos Karnezis Review by Nicholas Gage

  • Triomf by Marlene van Niekirk Review by Matt Steinglass

  • The Matter of Desire by Edmundo Paz Soldan Review by James Polk

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt Review by Laurel Maury

  • The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo Review by Malena Watrous

  • Do The Blind Dream by Barry Gifford Review by Marianne Rogoff

  • The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe Review by Gabe Weisert

    Chicago Tribune
  • Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker Review by Emily Bernard

  • Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore Review by Dan Cryer


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