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

Thursday October 31, 2002
Newsday
  • The Crazed by Ha Jin Review by Dan Cryer

    Wednesday October 30, 2002
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Reversible Errors by Scott Turow Review by Christine Thomas

    Tuesday October 29, 2002
    New York Times
  • Reversible Errors by Scott Turow Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Beyond Renewal by George Held Review by John Timpane

    Sunday October 27, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Crazed by Ha Jin Review by Ruth Franklin

  • The Miracle by John L'Heureux Review by Bruce Bawer

  • Tourmaline by Joanna Scott Review by Jeffrey Eugenides

  • The Adventuresw of Miles and Isabel by Tom Gilling Review by David Willis McCullough

  • Me With Animal Towering by Albert Mobilio Review by Eric McHenry

  • The Gypsy Man by Robert Bausch Review by Sarah Ferguson

  • Nothing That Meets the Eye by Patricia Highsmith Review by James Campbell

    Books in Brief:
  • Manhattan Monologues by Louis Auchincloss Review by Jeff Waggoner

  • Rouge Pulp by Dorothy Barresi Review by Emily Nussbaum

  • Roofwalker by Susan Power Review by Christopher Solomon

  • Slow Monkeys and Other Stories by Jim Nichols Review by Chris Marquis

  • Swan by Frances Mayes Review by Maggie Galehouse

  • Out of the South: Poems by Neal Bowers Review by David Kirby

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Little Friend by Donna Tartt Review by Dennis Drabelle

  • The Crazed by Ha Jin Review by Carolyn See

  • I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
  • In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
    Review by Judith Warner

  • Swan by Frances Mayes Review by Frances Taliaferro

  • Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry Review by Shashi Tharoor

  • Ignorance by Milan Kindera Review by Michael Dirda

  • Reversible Errors by Scott Turow Review by Jonathan Yardley

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Little Friend by Donna Tartt Review by

  • Great Dream of Heaven by Sam Shepard Review by J. Alex Tarquinio

  • The Crazed by Ha Jin Review by Francie Lon

  • Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry Review by Alan Cheuse

  • Desolation by Yasmina Reza Review by Robert Hurwitt

  • The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette Review by Alan Kaufman

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Secret by Eva Hoffman Review by Julia M. Klein

  • Q Road by Bonnie Jo Campbell Review by Lucia Perillo

  • A Brief History of the Flood by Jean Harfenist
  • Mermaids of the Moon by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
  • Last Year's Jesus by Ellen Slezak
    Review by Jillian Dunham

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner Review by Elisa Ludwig

  • Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry Review by Lionel Shriver

    LA Times
  • The Conquest by Yxta Murray Review by Salvador Carrasco

  • Baudolino by Umberto Eco Review by Iain Pears

    Newsday
  • The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen Review by Polly Shulman

  • No Way To Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley Review by Maureen Corrigan

  • Jane Austen in Boca by Paula Marantz Cohen Review by Emily Gordon

    Friday October 25, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Judges by Elie Wiesel Review by Jonathan Rosen

    Thursday October 24, 2002
    Newsday
  • Disturbance of the Inner Ear by Joyce Hackett Review by Dan Cryer

    Tuesday October 22, 2002
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason Review by David Walton

    Sunday October 20, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins Review by Mary Jo Salter

  • I'll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Jennifer Egan

  • December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith Review by Richard Eder

  • No Way To Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley Review by Rob Walter

  • Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk Review by Virginai Hefernan

    Washington Post Book World
  • Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright Review by Margaret Cheney

  • All Is Vanity by Christina Schwarz Review by Laura Jacobs

  • The Conquest by Yxta Maya Murray Review by Elizabeth Hand

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith Review by Sarah Coleman

  • Baudolino by Umberto Eco Review by David Kipen

  • Agape Agape by William Gaddis Review by Andrew Ervin

  • When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka Review by Kate Washington

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Crazed by Ha Jin Review by Alan Cheuse

  • The Good Remains by Nani Power Review by Kera Bolonik

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros Review by Laurie Kaplan

  • X= by Stephen Berg Review by George Held

  • Baudolino by Umberto Eco Review by Frank Wilson

    LA Times
    Discoveries:
  • Great Dream of Heaven: Stories by Sam Shepard Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Newsday
  • The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys Review by Polly Shulman

    Thursday October 17, 2002
    New York Times
  • The Little Friend by Donna Tartt Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Wednesday October 16, 2002
    New York Times
  • Baudolino by Umberto Eco Review by Richard Bernstein

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda
  • The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
    Review by Benjamin Austen

    Tuesday, October 15, 2002
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
  • Report to the Men's CLub by Carol Emshwiller
    Review by Gregory Feeley

    LA Times
  • Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott Review by Bernadette Murphy

    Sunday October 13, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • July, July by Tim O'Brien Review by David Gates

  • Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry Review by John Sutherland

  • All Is Vanity by Christina Schwarz Review by Karen Karbo

  • Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon Review by Peter Davison

  • The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys Review by Margot Livesey

  • In the Half Light by Anthony Lawrence Review by Katharine Weber

  • Born Twice by Giuseppe Pontiggia Review by Lawrence Venuti

  • Extravagance by Gary Krist Review by James Buchan

  • Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott Review by Claire Dederer

    Books in Brief:
  • The Green Hour by Frederic Tuten Review by Megan Harlan

  • In the River Sweet by Patricia Henley Review by Carol Doup Muller

  • The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass Review by Don O'Keefe

  • Bending Heaven by Jessica Francis Kane Review by Maggie Galehouse

  • The Human Country by Harry Mathews Review by John Hartl

  • Disturbance of the Inner Ear by Isabel Masurovsky Review by Jennifer Marie Reese

    Washington Post Book World
  • July, July by Tim O'Brien Review by Jonathan O'Brien

  • Baudolino by Umberto Eco Review by Geraldine Brooks

  • The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly Review by Brigitte Weeks

  • In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches Review by Glenn Kenny

  • Nothing That Meets the Eye by Patricia Highsmith Review by James Lasdun

  • Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes Review by Lee Martin

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Piano Tuner by Daniel mason Review by Regan McMahon

  • Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate Review by Andrew Roe

  • Swan by Frances Mayes Review by Megan Harlan

  • The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys Review by Matthew Batt

  • Tourmaline by Joanna Scott Review by Max Winter

  • All Is Vanity by Christina Schwarz Review by Monica Wood

  • The Miracle by John L'Heureux Review by Brad Vice

  • Born Twice by Giuseppe Pontiggia Review by Tony Giardina

  • No Way To Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley Review by Steve Kettmann

  • Q Is For Quarry by Sue Grafton Review by MAry Ann Koory

    Chicago Tribune
  • Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Review by Julia M. Klein

  • Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros Review by Breena Clarke

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith Review by Meredith Broussard

    LA Times
  • No Way To Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley Review by Jacob Heilbrunn

  • Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker Review by Adam Bresnick

    First Fiction:
  • The Ice Beneath You by Christian Bauman
  • The White by Deborah Larsen
  • Carrying the Body by Dawn Raffel
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Thursday October 10, 2002
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • After Nature by W.G. Sebald Review by Scott Edward Anderson

    Sunday October 6, 2002
    New York Times Book Review
  • I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson Review by Kate Betts

  • Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker Review by Geoffrey C. Ward

  • The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith Review by Daniel Zalewski

  • Agape Agape by William Gaddis Review by Sven Birkerts

  • Music of Life by Andrei Makine Review by Ann Harleman

  • Desolation by Yasmina Reza Review by David Finkle

  • The Last Girls by Lee Smith Review by Sarah Towers

  • Tricky Business by Dave Barry Review by John Leland

  • Ignorance by Milan Kundera Review by Maureen Howard

    Washington Post Book World
  • December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros Review by Adriana Lopez

  • Summerland by Michael Chabono Review by Neil Gaiman

  • Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
  • Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka
    Review by Eilzabeth Ward

  • After Nature by W.G. Sebald Review by Carol Bere

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Girl From the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer Review by David Kipen

  • Seven Houses by Alev Lytle Croutier Review by Eliza Wilmerding

  • Extravagance by Gary Krist Review by Mark Athitakis

  • July, July by Tim O'Brien Review by Heller McAlpin

  • I'll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Alan Kaufman

  • Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros Review by David Mazella

    Chicago Tribune
  • In Revere, In Those Days by Roland Merullo Review by Michael Upchurch

  • Tourmaline by Joanna Scott Review by Laura Ciolkowski

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Blindside by Jim R. Lane Review by John Lehman

  • In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches Review by Dylan Foley

  • Tales of Protection by Erik Fosnes Hansen Review by James Held

  • In Revere, In Those Days by Roland Merullo Review by Rita Giordano

  • The Night Sky by Frederick Morgan Review by Michael Peich

    LA Times
  • Ignorance by Milan Kundera Review by Jaroslaw Anders

  • In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches Review by Jeff Turrentine

  • Gorgeous Lies by Martha McPhee Review by Michael Harris

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