Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction

November 2001

Sunday November 25, 2001 New York Times Book Review Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison Reviewed by Cathleen Schine Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro Review by William H. Pritchard The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by Walter Kirn Futureland by Walter Mosley Review by Nikki Dillon Riot by Shashi Tharoor Review by Adam Goodheart The Rock by Kanan Makiya Review by Chris Hedges In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk Review by Larry Wolff Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard Review by Geoff Nicholson Tremolo: Poems by Spencer Short Review by Emily Nussbaum Washington Post Book World Coming Soon by John Barth Review by Steven Moore Translated Accounts by James Kelman Review by Richard Lourie In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk Review by Reamy Jansen The Silent Woman by Susan Dodd Review by Nicholas Delbanco The Complete Works of Isaac Babel Review by Michael Dirda San Francisco Chronicle Coming Soon by John Barth Review by David Kipen The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by Alan Cheuse Black Oxen by Elizabeth Knox Review by John Freeman Sunday's Silence by Gina B. Nahai Review by Brad Vice Complete Works of Isaac Babel Review by Erik Tarloff Hotel of the Saints by Ursula Hegi Review by Danielle Svetcov No Saints or Angels by Ivan Klima Review by Jennie Yabroff The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus Review by Dennis Loy Johnson The Ghost of John Wayne and Other Stories by Ray Gonzalez Review by James Brown The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar Review by Dodie Bellamy The Red of His Shadow by Mayra Montero Review by Miriam Wolf Chicago Tribune Cold by John Smolens Review by Robin Hemley Almost by Elizabeth Benedict Review by Carmela Ciuraru Boston Globe The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by Thomas Filbin Fallen Angels by Tracy Chevalier Review by Jodi Daynard LA Times The Stories of Paul Bowles Review by Jamie James Discoveries: The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaetan Soucy Hotel of the Saints by Ursula Hegi Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui Review by Ann Huss First Fiction: Living with Saints by Mary O'Connell Soledad by Angie Cruz All That Counts by Georg M. Oswald Review by Mark Rozzo Tuesday November 20, 2001 New York Times Hateship, Freindship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday November 18, 2001 New York Times Book Review For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez Review by Richard Eder The Complete Works of Isaac Babel Review by Jonathan Rosen The Wig My Father Wore by Anne Enright Review by Tom Gilling Living With Saints by Mary O'Connell Review by Meghan O'Rourke In the Shadow of Our House: Stories by Scott Blackwood Review by Julie Gray The Royal Physicians Visit by Per Olov Enquist Review by Bruce Bawer Books in Brief: Hotel of the Saints: Stories by Ursula Hegi Review by Maggie Jones The Half-Finished Heaven by Tomas Transtromer Review by Noah Isenberg The Deadwood Beetle by Mylene Dressler Review by Jmaes Polk Aria by Susan Segal Review by Dana Kennedy Cold by John Smolens Review by Michael Maiello Brown Harvest by Jay Russell Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams Washington Post Book World The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaetan Soucy Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias The Complexities of Intimacy by Mary Caponegro Hotel of the Saints by Ursala Hegi Interesting Monsters: Fictions by Aldo Alvarez Review by Lydia Millet All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom Review by Thomas McGonigle No Saints or Angels by Ivan Klima Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet Darling by Heidi by Jon Schmidt The Absence of Nectar by Kathy Hepinstall Snapshots by William Norris America the Beautiful by Moon Unit Zappa How The Hula Girls Sins by Joe Meno Review by Juliet Whittmann Chicago Tribune The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by Steven G. Kellman Sunday November 11, 2001 New York Times Book Review The Last Canyon by John Vernon Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov Review by Ken Kalfus No Saints or Angels by Ivan Klima Review by Janet Burroway Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link Review by Andrew O'Hehir Maconochie's Gentlemen by Norval Morris Review by Adam Hichschild Landor's Towers by Iain Sinclair Review by Stephen Amidon October Suite by Maxine Clair Review by Bart Schneider Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew Review by Adam Nossiter Washington Post Book World The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus Review by Thomas Mallon Creatures of Habit by Jill McCorkle Review by Dawn Trouard Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard Review by Paul Di Filippo Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker Review by Martin Morse Wooster San Francisco Chronicle Boonville by Robert Mailer Anderson Review by David Kipen Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro Review by David Wiegand After the Plague by T.C. Boyle Review by Ken Foster Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub Review by Michael Berry Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard Review by Dodie Bellamy Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks by Greg Bottoms Review by James Brown All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland Review by Kevin Smokler Chicago Tribune Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro Review by Lynna Williams The Appointment by Herta Mueller Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel Creatures of Habit by Jill McCorkle Review by Alyce Miller Phone Calls From the Dead by Wendy Brenner Review by Sandra Scofield Esther Stories by Peter Orner Review by John Freeman Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling by Maura Stanton Review by Gina Frangello The Spirit Returns by Richard Burgin Review by Floyd Skloot Living With Saints by Mary O'Connell Review by Robin Hemley Philadelphia Inquirer Look At Me by Jennifer Egan Review by Beth Gillin LA Times Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe Review by D.J. Carlile First Fiction: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl by Tracy Quan Bear v. Shark by Chris Bachelder Red Hook by Gabriel Cohen Review by Mark Rozzo Discoveries: Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman Review by Susan Salter Reynolds The Same Sea by Amos Oz Review by Jonathan Levi Embers by Sandor Marai Review by Thomas McGonigle Sunday November 4, 2001 New York Times Book Review Esther Stories by Peter Orner Review by Margot Livesey Coming Soon by John Barth Review by Jennifer Schuessler Against Love Poetry by Eavan Boland Review by Melanie Rehak Old Men at Midnight by Chaim Potok Review by Rachel Seiffert Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier Review by Janice P. Nimura The Bulgari Connection by Fay Weldon Review by Sylvia Brownrigg Books in Brief: Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams Sad Bastard by Hugo Hamilton Review by Sia Michel Small Gods of Grief: Poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar Review by Ken Tucker The Bridge by Doug Marlette Review by Jon Garelick Courting Laura Providencia by Jack Pulaski Review by Jeff Waggoner Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende Review by Andrew Ervin Washington Post Book World The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by Jonathan Yardley The Sin of Color by Sunetra Gupta Empire Settings by David Schmahmann Review by R.Hunter Garcia Look at Me by Jennifer Egan Review by David Mulcahey The Bulgari Connection by Fay Weldon Review by Jennifer Howard San Francisco Chronicle Collected Stories by Saul Bellow Review by Alan Cheuse Middle Age by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Carey Harrison Look at Me by Jennifer Egan Review by Carmela Ciuraru Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Review by Mark Luce Cold by John Smolens Review by Drew Cherry The Huntsman by Whitney Terrell Review by Claire Splan The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace Review by Sarah Coleman Chicago Tribune The Same Sea by Amos Oz Review by Alan Cheuse Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor Review by Keith Taylor Philadelphia Inquirer Old Men at Midnight by Chaim Potok Review by Sanford Pinsker LA Times Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro Review by Jane Ciabattari Discoveries: Esther Stories by Peter Orner The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Riot by Shashi Tharoor Review by Jonathan Levi October 2001 List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site