Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
September 2000

Friday September 29, 2000
New York Times
  • Martin Bauman by David Leavitt Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Thursday September 18, 2000
    New York Times
  • The Golden Age by Gore Vidal Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday September 24, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Review by Ken Kalfus

  • When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Review by Michael Gorra

  • Tideland by Mitch Cullin
  • Branches by Mitch Cullin
    Review by Jim Lewis

  • The Mineral Palace by Heidi Julavits Review by Anita Gates

  • The Genius of the World by Alice Lichtenstein Review by Nina Sonenberg

  • The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman Review by Abraham Verghese

  • Only Yesterday by S.Y. Agnon Review by Jonathan Rosen

  • Wild Life by Molly Gloss Review by Abby Frucht

    Books in Brief:
  • Open House by Elizabeth Berg Review by Barbara Fisher

  • The Horse Fair: Poems by Robin Becker Review by Carmela Ciuraru

  • The Mile High Club by Kinky Friedman Review by David L. Ulin

  • Anthropology by Dan Rhodes Review by Lori Leibovich

  • Wyoming by Barry Gifford Review by Jonathan Miles

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Mineral Palace by Heidi Julavits Review by Heather Hewett

  • Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough Review by Elizabeth Ward

  • All the Names by Jose Saramago Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Martin Bauman, or A Sure Thing by David Leavitt Review by David Wiegand

  • When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Review by Brian Bouldrey

  • Lying Awake by Mark Salzman Review by Robin Beeman

  • Luck by Eric Martin Review by Ken Foster

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Review by James Held

  • Ben, in the World by Doris Lessing Review by Maggie Galehouse

    LA Times
  • The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin Review by Morrie Ruvinsky

  • When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Review by Jonathan Levi

  • The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz Review by Adam Kirsch

    Discoveries:
  • A Blind man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
  • The Mile High Club by Kinky Friedman
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • The Hatbox Baby by Carrie Brown Review by Naima A. Wartts

    Chicago Tribune
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Review by Michael Upchurch

    Sunday September 17, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky Review by Sven Birkerts

  • Longing by J.D. Landis Review by James Polk

  • Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein Review by Sylvia Brownrigg

  • Ghostwritten by David Mitchell Review by Richard Eder

  • Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard Review by Bruce DeSilva

  • Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys Review by Michael Upchurch

  • Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: A Triptych by Lynn Stegner Review by Lauren MacIntyre

    Books in Brief:
  • Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser Review by Jennifer Reese

  • No Good-byes by Elaine Kagan Review by Ruth Coughlin

  • Wild Kids by Chang Ta-chan Review by Maureen McLane

  • Daemonomania by John Crowley Review by Jeff Waggoner

  • Diamond Dogs by Alan Watt's Review by Megan Harlan

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Last Samurai by Helen De Witt Review by Steven Moore

  • How the Dead Live by Will Self Review by Jonathan Carroll

  • The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann Review by Paul Di Filippo

  • Under the Skin by Miachael Faber Review by Jonathan Fasman

  • Harry Gold by Millicent Dillon
  • Iron Shoes by Molly Giles
  • Several Deceptions by Jane Stevenson
    Review by Christopher Clausen

  • Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry Review by Chris Lehmann

  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin Review by David Wiegand

  • Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris Review by Catherine Davidson

  • The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman Review by Floyd Skloot

  • The Mineral Palace by Heidi Julavits Review by Adam Dunn

  • The Last Days of Disco by Whit Stillman Review by Jason K. Friedman

  • Antigua and My Life Before by Marcela Serrano Review by Cathryn Alpert

  • Just Passing Through by Paco Ignacio Taibo II Review by Alan Cheuse

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein Review by Carlin Romano

  • A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle Review by Steve Goldstein

  • Deus lo Volt by Evan Connell Review by John R. Alden

    LA Times
  • The Golden Age by Gore Vidal Review by Kevin Baker

  • Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz Review by Mark Rozzo

    Discoveries:
  • All the Names by Jose Saramago
  • Acts of God by Mary Morris
  • A Total View of Taftly by Scott Morris
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Chicago Tribune
  • Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys Review by Kathryn Rhett

  • A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle Review by Charles Dickinson

  • The Golden Age by Gore Vidal Review by Richard Stern

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Review by Peter Wolfe

  • Tulsa Time by Letha Albright Review by Steve Weinberg

    Sunday September 10, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Lily Theater by Lulu Wang Review by John Burnham Schwartz

  • Rope Burns by F.X. Toole Review by Allen Barra

  • The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin Review by Rand Richards Cooper

  • Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz Review by Maile Meloy

  • A Blind Man can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom Review by Joan Smith

  • Innocence by Jane Mendelsohn Review by Louis Bayard

  • Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means Review by Maria Russo

    Books in Brief:
  • Catching Heaven by Sands Hall Review by Kimberley B. Marlowe

  • The Last Days of Disco by Whit Stillman Review by Peter Khoury

  • The Murdered House by Pierre Magnan Review by Sudip Bose

  • Caution: Men in Trees: Stories by Darrell Spencer Review by Jefff Waggoner

  • A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice Review by Jennfier Reese

  • Selected Poems by Fanny Howe Review by Melanie Rehak

    Washington Post Book World
  • When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Review by Jonathan Yardley

    Fiction:
  • The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood
  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal
  • My Juliet by John Ed Bradley
  • The Hatbox Baby by Carrie Brown
  • The Lake by Daniel Villasenor
    Review by Patrick Anderson

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • I Like Being Killed: Stories by Tibor Fischer Review by Sarah Coleman

  • A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle Review by Brian Bouldrey

  • Joe College by Tom Perrotta Review by Mark Luce

  • Winter Range by Claire Davis Review by Ron Franscell

  • Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard Review by David Lazarus

  • The Sun: A Novel Told in 63 Woodcuts by Frans Masereel
  • The Idea and Story Without Words by Frans Masereel
    Review by Kenneth Baker

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin Review by Edna Stumpf

  • Harbor Lights by Theodore Weesner Review by Michael Harrington

  • In My Other LIfe: Stories by Joan Silber Review by Rita Giordano

  • Liar's Game by Eric Jerome Dickey Review by Sheilah Vance

    LA Times
  • Rope Burns by F.X. Toole Review by Walter Bernstein

  • A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle Review by Eric Zencey

    Chicago Tribune
  • When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro Review by Peter Ho Davies

    Friday September 8, 2000
    New York Times
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Review by Michiko Kakutani

    LA Times
  • Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss Review by Anthony Day

    Thursday September 7, 2000
  • Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard Review by Janet Maslin

    Sunday September 3, 2000
    New York Times Book Review
  • Modern Art by Evelyn Toynton Review by Francine Prose

  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Review by Thomas Mallon

  • The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush Review by Catherine Lockerbie

  • Stella in Heaven by Art Buchwald Review by Reeve Lindbergh

  • The Notorious Dr. August by Christopher Bram Review by Paul Quarrington

    Books in Brief:
  • Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen Review by Andrea King Collier

  • Iron Shoes by Molly Giles Review by Barbara Sutton

  • My Juliet by John Ed Bradley Review by Jonathan Miles

  • Laura by Larry Watson Review by Bruce Allen

  • A Pure Clear Light by Madeleine St. John Review by Maggie Galehouse

    Washington Post Book World
  • Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard Review by Jonathan Yardley

  • A Friend of the Earth by T. C. Boyle Review by Lisa Zeidner

  • Laura by Larry Watson Review by Howard Frank Mosher

    Fiction:
  • Six Crooked Highways by Wayne Johnson
  • L.I.E. by David Hollander
  • The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll
  • What a Woman Must Do by Faith Sullivan
    Review by Paul Kafka-Gibbon

  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Review by Michael Dirda

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Review by Steven G. Kellman

  • The Spell: A Romance by Tom Clark Review by Barbara Hoffert

  • The Collapsible World by Anne N. Marino Review by David Wiegand

  • Under the Skin by Michel Faber Review by Reamy Jansen

  • The Last Jew by Noah Gordon Review by Floyd Skloot

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • English Passengers by Matthew Kneale Review by Frank Wilson

  • Longing by J.D. Landis Review by David Walton

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Innocence by Jane Mendelsohn Review by Sylvia Duncan

    Chicago Tribune
  • Longing by J.D. Landis Review by Alan Cheuse

    Friday September 1, 2000
    New York Times
  • An Obvious Enchantment by Tucker Malarkey Review by Richard Bernstein

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