Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
September 2005

Sunday September 25, 2005
New York Times Book Review
  • The March by E.L. Doctorow Review by Walter Kirn

  • Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993 by Lawrence Joseph
  • Into It by Lawrence Joseph
    Review by David Kirby

    Fiction Chronicle:
  • One Dangerous Lady by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
  • A Little Love Story by Roland Merullo
  • Late in the Standoffs: Stories and a Novella by Tracy Daugherty
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
  • The Girld in the Green Glass Mirror by Elizabeth McGregor
    Review by Maggie Galehouse

  • 26a by Diana Evans Review by Ligaya Mishan

  • Vita by Melania G. Mazzucco Review by Sven Birkerts

  • The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante Review by Jean Hanff Korelitz

  • The Great Stink by Clare Clark Review by Susann Cokal

  • Hot Animal Love by Scott Bradfield Review by Haney Alford

  • Clear by Nicloa Barker Review by Jean Nathan

    Washington Post Book World
  • Freshwater Road by Denise Nichlas Review by Samuel G. Freedman

  • Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee Review by Ron Charles

  • The March by E.L. Doctorow Review by John Wray

  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman Review by Elizabeth Hand

  • Cotton by Christopher Wilson Review by Jeff Turrentine

  • The Apple's Bruise by Lisa Glatt Review by Andrew Ervin

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips Review by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

  • Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson Review by Dan Zigmond

    Chicago Tribune
  • Sky Burial by Xinran Review by Seth Faison

  • Dancing in the Dark by Carly Phillips Review by scott McLemee

    Boston Globe
  • The March by E.L. Doctorow Review by Madison Smartt Bell

  • Trance by Christopher Sorrentino Review by John Freeman

  • Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley
  • Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link Review by Peter Bebergal

    Sunday September 18, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith Review by Frank Rich

  • Fan-Tan by Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell Review by Joe Queenan

  • Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg Review by Andrea Barrett

    Chronicle:
  • Wounded by Percival Everett
  • Infidelities by Josip Novakovich
  • Love, Work, Children by Cheryl Mendelsohn
  • The Every Boy by Dana Adam Shapiro
  • Lunar Follies by Gilbert Sorrentino
    Review by Gregory Cowles

  • The Mad Cook of Pymatuning by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Review by Polly Morrice

  • The Holding by Merilyn Simonds Review by Sue Halpern

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks Review by Paulette Jiles

  • Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley Review by Ron Charles

  • Tooth and Claw by T.C. Boyle Review by Annie Proulx

  • Cooking With Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francsico Chronicle
  • A Thousand years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li Review by Alan Cheuse

  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith Review by John Freeman

  • You Can Say You Knew Me When by K.M. Soehnlein Review by David Moisl

  • MacDougal Street Ghosts by Hesper Anderson Review by Rachel Elson

  • Minaret by Leila Aboulela Review by Chandrahas Choudhury

  • The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch Review by Victoria Kelly

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas by Davy Rothbart Review by Alex Kotlowitz

  • The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich Review by Art Winslow

    Boston Globe
  • Tooth and Claw by T. Coraghesssan Boyle Review by Steve Almond

  • Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel Review by Jay Atkinson

    Sunday September 11, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
  • Tooth and Claw by T. Coraghessan Boyle Review by Laura Miller

  • The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich Review by Benjamin Markovits

  • An Atomic Romance by Bobbie Ann Mason Review by Rob Nixon

  • Jerry Engels by Thomas Rogers Review by James Parker

  • God Jr. by Dennis Cooper Review by Lenora Todaro

  • The Third Brother by Nick McDonell Review by Dave Itzkoff

    Washington Post Book World
  • Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie Review by Ron Charles

  • Lies by William Hoffman Review by Art Taylor

  • Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel Review by John McNally

  • Out of Season by Robert Bausch Review by Bruce Murkoff

  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith Review by Michale Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Diviners by Rick Moody Review by Linda Burnett

  • Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie Review by Tom Barbash

  • Karoo Boy by Troy Blacklaw Review by Brenn Jones

  • The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich Review by Reagan Upshaw

  • The English Teacher by Lily King Review by Eric Reyes

  • The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant Review by Summer Block

  • Tooth and Claw by T.C. Boyle Review by Charles E. May

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger Review by Brad Thomas

  • The Diviners by Rick Moody Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet

  • Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio Review by Alan Cheuse

    Boston Globe
  • The Diviners by Rick Moody Review by Ann Harleman

  • Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
  • The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart
  • 26a by Diana Evans
    Review by Diane White

  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith Review by Gail Caldwell

  • The Season of Open Water by Dawn Cliftin Tripp Review by Judy Budz

    Thursday September 8, 2005
    New York Times
  • Fallen by David Maines Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday September 4, 2005
    New York Times Book Review
    Chronicle:
  • In the Province of Saints by Thomas O'Malley
  • 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
  • User I.D. by Jenefer Shute
  • Naphtalene by Alia Mamdouh
  • Q & A by Vikas Swarup
    Review by Elsa Dixler

  • Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath Review by Max Byrd

  • House of Thieves by Kaui Hart Hemmings Review by Tara Gallagher

  • The Sugar Mile by Glyn Maxwell Review by Christian Wiman

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Diviners by Rick Moody Review by James Hynes

  • Wounded by Percival Everett Review by Jane Smiley

  • An Atomic Romance by Bobbie Ann Mason Review by Nancy Zafris

  • The Painted DrumM by Louise Erdrich Review by Donna Rifkind

  • A Princess of Roumania by Paul park Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks Review by Tobin O'Donnell

    Chicago Tribune
  • Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie Review by Alan Cheuse

    Boston Globe
  • The Practice of Deceit by Elizabeth Benedict Review by Judy Budz

  • Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie Review by John Freeman

  • The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich Review by Margot Livesey


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