Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction

May 2000

Tuesday May 30, 2000 New York Times Portrait of an Artist As An Old Man by Joseph Heller Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday May 28, 2000 New York Times Book Review Pastoralia: Stories by George Saunders Review by Lynne Tillman Motherkind by Jayne Anne Phillips Review by Richard Eder English Passengers by Matthew Kneale Review by Adam Hochschild Books in Brief: Never Mind Nirvana by Mark Lindquist Review by Stephanie Zacharek Headlock by Adam Berlin Review by David L. Ulin Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach Review by Catherine Osborne The Free Thinkers by Layle Silbert Review by Michael Porter Venus Drive by Sam Lipsyte Review by Christine Muhlke Washington Post Book World Music & Silence by Rose Tremain Review by Sunil Iyengar Being Dead by Jim Crace Review by John Crowley Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins Review by Richard Grant Philadelphia Inquirer Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin Review by Gregory Feeley Day of the Bees by Thomas Sanchez Review by Rita Giordano The Shot by Philip Kerr Review by Richard Pachter San Francisco Chronicle Bee Season by Myla Goldberg Review by Eileen Pollack Motherkind by Jayne Anne Phillips Review by Ken Foster The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter Review by Robin Beeman Shiva's Fire by Suzanne Fisher Staples Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan Review by Susan Faust LA Times Pure Poetry by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Richard Howard The Human Stain by Philip Roth Review by Jonathan Levi Discoveries: Laura by Larry Watson Half a Heart by Rosellen Brown Dream Keeper by Morrie Ruvinsky Review by Susan Salter Reynolds St. Louis Post-Dispatch Pastoralia by George Suanders Review by Sandy Primm White Teeth by Zadie Smith Review by Susan C. Thomson Sunday May 21, 2000 New York Times Book Review Crocodile Soup by Julia Darling Review by Lisa Zeidner The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison Review by Claire Messud Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins Review by James Paniewozik The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Review by Joanna Scott Diamond Dust: Stories by Anita Desai Review by Sylvia Brownrigg Prince of the Clouds by Gianni Riotta Review by Michael Pye Books in Brief: When I was Mortal by Javier Marias Review by Elizabeth Judd Place Last Seen by Charlotte McGuinn Review by Liam Callanan Big City Eyes by Delia Ephron Review by Maria Russo Krupp's Lulu by Gordon Lish Review by Brigitte Frase Kick in the Head by Steven Rinehart Review by Andrew Santella Washington Post Book World The Man Who Wrote The Book by Erik Tarloff Review by Laura Jamison Dressing Up For the Carnival by Carol Shields Review by Abby Frucht White Teeth by Zadie Smith Review by Esther Iverem Philadelphia Inquirer Only Yesterday by S.Y. Agnon Review by Susan Miron Le Mariage by Diane Johnson Review by Merilyn Jackson Dressed Up For the Carnival by Carol Shields Review by Susan Balee San Francisco Chronicle The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Review by Ken Fraser The Man Who Wrote the Book by Erik Tarloff Review by Phoef Sutton Tuff by Paul Beatty Review by Oscar C. Villalon Eating Naked by Stephen Dobyns Review by Jennie Yabroff The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison Review by Chris Bohjalian Sam the Cat and Other Stories by Matthew Klam Review by David Wiegand The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan English Passengers by Matthew Kneale Review by Bella Stander Destiny by Tim Parks Review by Josh Emmons LA Times Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Review by Jonathan Levi Copenhagen by Michael Frayn Review by John Lukacs O.K. by Paul West Review by Allen Barra First Fiction Sam the Cat by Matthew Klam Swimming Sweet Arrow by Maureen Gibbon Crocodile Soup by Julia Darling Review by Mark Rozzo Discoveries: Motherkind by Jayne Anne Phillips Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins Veronika Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho Review by Susan Salter Reynolds St. Louis Post Dispatch Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani Review by Martha K. Baker Lucy Crocker 2.0 by Caroline Preston Review by Colleen Kelly Warren Friday May 19, 2000 Washington Post Eating Naked by Stephen Dobyns Review by Carolyn See Thursday May 18, 2000 New York Times Hunts in Dreams by Tom Drury Review by Richard Eder Sunday May 14, 2000 New York Times Book Review Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Review by Richard Eder The Man Who Wrote The Book by Erik Tarloff Review by Carl Hiaasen Hunts in Dreams by Tom Drury Review by D.T. Max Crazy by Benjamin Lebert Review by Jeffrey Eugenides Renato's Luck by Jeff Shapiro Review by James McManus Six Figures by Fred G. Leebron Review by Rob Spillman Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson Review by Calvin Bedient The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living by Martin Clark Review by Robert Draper Books in Brief: Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiana Review by Andrea Higbie You've Just Been Told: Poems by Elizabeth Macklin Review by Deborah Weisgall Garden Primitives: Stories by Danielle Sosin Review by Victoria L. Tilney Dear Will by Karl Ackerman A Member of the Family by Susan Merrell Review by Betsy Groban Washington Post Book World Motherkind by Jayne Anne Phillips Review by Judy Goldman San Francisco Chronicle The Human Stain by Philip Roth Review by Daniel Blue Sarah by J.T. LeRoy Review by David Wiegand Hotel Imperium by Rachel Loden Review by Tom Clark How It Was For Me by Andrew Sean Greer Review by Abby Pollak The Unburied by Charles Palliser Review by David Lazarus Pure Poetry by Binnie Kirshenbaum Review by Jason K. Friedman Philadelphia Inquirer The Human Stain by Philip Roth Review by James D. Bloom Don't The Moon Look Lonesome by Stanley Crouch Review by Sanford L. Pinsker Moondogs by Michael Swanwick Puck Aleshire's Adecedary by Michael Swanwick Review by Gregory Feeley Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien Review by Carolyn Cohen LA Times Don't The Moon Look Lonesome by Stanley Crouch Review by Jonathan Levi Le Mariage by Diane Johnson Review by Merle Rubin Discoveries: Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert Krupp's Lulu by Gordon Lish Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Thursday May 11, 2000 New York Times Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Review by Janet Maslin Tuesday May 9, 2000 New York Times Half a Heart by Rosellen Brown Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday May 7, 2000 New York Times Book Review The Human Stain by Philip Roth Review by Lorrie Moore Mr. Phillips by John Lancaster Review by Jennifer Schuessler The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter Review by Jaqueline Carey Sarah by J.T. LeRoy Review by Catherine Texier Tuff by Paul Beatty Review by Ken Foster Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee Review by Chris Solomon Books in Brief: How It Was For Me by Andrew Sean Greer Review by Lori Leibovich The Cabal and Other Stories by Ellen Gilchrist Review by Jim Gladstone The Sky Unwashed by Irene Zabytko Review by Liam Callanan Fabulous Hell by Craig Curtis Review by Christine Muhlke The Blood Latitudes by William Harrison Review by Jonathan Miles More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon Review by Megan Harlan Washington Post Book World The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter Review by Robert Clark The Human Stain by Philip Roth Review by James Hynes Don't the Moon Look Lonesome by Stanley Crouch Review by Bart Schneider Akhenaten by Naguib Mahfouz Review by Gelareh Asayesh Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Joyce Johnson Madame by Antoni Libera Review by Michael Dirda Philadelphia Inquirer Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Review by Joan Mellen The Daughter's of Simon Lamoreaux by David Long Review by Sandra Scofield Gambler's Rose by G.W. Hawkes Review by Gregory L. Morris Eating Naked by Stephen Dobyns Review by Lisa Zeidner Blue Angel by Francine Prose Review by Donald Newlove San Francisco Chronicle White Teeth by Zadie Smith Review by David Wiegand Angels Go Naked by Cornelia Nixon Review by Brian Schwartz Dressing Up For the Carnival by Carol Shields Review by Daniel Orozco Music & Silence by Rose Tremain Review by Dennis Loy Johnson The Spirit Cabinet by Paul Quarrington Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet Havana Heat by Darryl Brock Review by Seth Magalaner LA Times Only Yesterday by S.Y. Agnon Review by Robert Alter In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent Review by Henry Mayer White Teeth by Zadie Smith Review by Mark Rozzo Discoveries: Leap by Terry Tempest Williams Dressing Up For The Carnival by Carol Shields Diamond Dust by Anita Desai Eating Naked by Stephen Dobyns Review by Susan Salter Reynolds St. Louis Post Dispatch The Human Stain by Philip Roth Review by Dale Singer Friday May 5, 2000 New York Times The Fig Eater by Jody Shields Review by Michiko Kakutani Wednesday May 3, 2000 Washington Post Tea by Stacey D'Erasmo Review by Patricia Elam Tuesday May 2, 2000 New York Times The Human Stain by Philip Roth Review by Michiko Kakutani Monday May 1, 2000 New York Times Crazy by Benjamin Lebert Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt April List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site