Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
SEPTEMBER

Wednesday September 29, 1999
  • Colony Girl by Thomas Rayfiel Review by Richard Eder

    Sunday September 26, 1999
    New York Times Book Review
  • PU-239: And Other Russian Fantasies by Ken Kalfus Review by Jim Shepard

  • Quit Monks or Die by Maxine Kumin Review by Laura Jamison

  • The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood by Imogen de la Bere Review by Angela Huth

  • Light in the Crossing: Stories by Kent Meyers Review by Stewart O'Nan

    Books in Brief:
  • The Desperate Season by Michael Blaine Review by Charles Wilson

  • Selfwolf by Mark Halliday Review by Ken Tucker

  • Poor Kevin by Kate Margam Review by Jennifer Schuessler

  • Unhallowed Ground by Gillian White Review by James Polk

  • Signs and Wonders by Melvin Jules Bukiet Review by Edward Neuert

    Washington Post Book World
  • Why She Left Us by Rahna Reiko Review by Janice Nimura

  • Maps by Nuruddin Farah
  • Gifts by Nuruddin Farah
    Review by Charles R. Larson

  • Leopard in the Sun by Laura Restrepo Review by Marie Arana

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Mr. X by Peter Straub Review by Edna Stumpf

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Plainsong by Kent Haruf Review by Sarah Saffian

  • Italian Fever by Valerie Martin Review by Leonard Michaels

  • The Road to Mars by Eric Idle Review by David Wiegand

  • Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman Review by Mark Luce

  • Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport Review by M.manette Ansay

    LA Times
  • The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by Will Self Review by Jonathan Levi
  • A Long Way From Home by Connie Briscoe Review by Paula L. Woods

    First Fiction
  • Collectors by Paul Griner
  • The Pleasing Hour by Lily King
  • Why She Left Us by Rahna Reiko
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    Discoveries:
  • The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Review by Kern Knapp Sawyer

    Sunday September 19, 1999
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Summer of '39 by Miranda Seymour Review by Nancy Willard

  • The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by Will Self Review by Laura Miller

  • The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine Review by Fernanda Eberstadt

  • Peel My Love Like an Onion by Ana Castillo Review by Margot Mifflin

    Books in Brief:
  • Collectors by Paul Griner Review by Bruce Allen

  • Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett Review by Terry Teachout

  • The Road to Mars by Eric Idle Review by Gary Kamiya

  • Cityside by William Heffernan Review by Abby Ellin

  • One Hundred and One Ways by Mako Yoshikawa Review by Jim Gladstone

  • Boy in the Water by Stephen Dobyns Review by Erik Burns

    Washington Post Book World
  • Somewhere in France by John Rolfe Gardiner Review by Audrey C. Foote

  • Shadow-Box by Antonnia Logue Review by Gary Krist

  • Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen Review by Marc Fisher

  • 53 Days by Georges Perec Review by Michael Dirda

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Review by Ann Waldron

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • Hearts in Atlantis by Stpehen King Review by Michael Berry

  • God is a Bullet by Boston Teran Review by John Perry

  • The Angle Quickest for Flight by Steven Kotler Review by Robert A. Cucinotta

    LA Times
  • The Angelic Darkness by Richard Zimler Review by Jonathan Levi

  • Jem (and Sam) by Ferdinand Mount Review by Peter Green

  • A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee Review by Leslie Brody

    Discoveries
  • Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend
  • Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
  • Violet & Claire by Francesca Lia Block
  • All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee Review by Julia Faila Earhart

  • A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle Review by Colleen Kelly Warren

    Monday September 13, 1999
    New York Times
  • The Catastrophist by Ronin Bennett Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    Sunday September 12, 1999
    New York Times Book Review
  • A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle Review by Richard Eder

  • Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King Review by Caleb Crain

  • The Last Life by Claire Messud Review by Suzanne Berne

  • All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills Review by James Polk

  • Having Everything by John L'Heureux Review by Lisa Ziedner

  • Gifts by Nuruddin Farah Review by Suzanne Ruta

  • The Professor of Light by Marina Budhos Review by Henry Shukman

  • The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada Review by Sandra Tsing Loh

  • Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin Review by Richard Lourie

    Books in Brief:
  • Liar's Moon by Philip Kimball Review by Alanna Nash

  • Leaving Pico by Frank X. Gaspar Review by Erik Burns

  • City of Ice by John Farrow Review by Peter Khoury

  • Blast from the Past by Ben Elton Review by Emily Hall

  • Mollie Peer by Van Reid Review by Betsy Groban

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King Review by Donald Newlove

  • Big Trouble by Dave Barry Review by Debra Nussbaum

  • Headlong by Michael Frayn Review by David Walton

  • The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine Review by Susan Miron
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Review by Cathryn Alpert

  • The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine Review by Chris Bohjalian

  • Lovers for a Day by Ivan Klima Review by Jennie Yabroff

  • A Boy in Winter by Maxine Chernoff
  • Who I Was Supposed to Be by Susan Perabo
  • Sea of Memory by Erri De Luca
  • Schrodinger's Baby by H.R. McGregor
  • Henry of Atlantic City by Frederick Reuss
    Review by John Perry

  • Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk Review by James Sullivan

    LA Times
  • The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine Review by Jonathan Levy

  • The Abyssinian by Jean-Christophe Rufin Review by Scott Bradfield

    First Fiction
  • Who I Was Supposed to Be by Susan Perabo
  • Escape from Film School by Richard Walter
    Review by Mark Rozzo

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King Review by mandy Davis

  • Who I Was Supposed To Be by Susan Perabo Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss

    Sunday September 5, 1999
    New York Times Book Review
  • A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee Review by Andrew O'Hagan

  • The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver Review by Katharine Weber

  • Yellow Jack by Josh Russell Review by Aoibheann Sweeney

  • The Oresteia by Aeshylus; Translated by Ted Hughes
    Review by Garry Wills

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Review by Gregory Maguire

  • Kill Me First by Kate Morgenroth Review by Maryanne Vollers

  • The Peking Letter: A Novel of the Chinese Civil War by Seymour Topping
    Review by Lisa See

    Books in Brief:
  • Cruddy by Lynda Barry Review by Alanna Nash

  • Hunting Down Home by Jean McNeil Review by Katharine Whittemore

  • Windward Heights by Maryse Conde Review by Anderson Tepper

  • The Splintered Day by V.K. Mina Review by Melanie Rehak

  • The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly by Greg Hrbek Review by Diane Cole

    Washington Post Book World
  • Headlong by Michael Frayn Review by Michael Dirda

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Oresteia by Aeschylus; Translated by Ted Hughes Review by J.T. Barbarese

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Mountain Time by Ivan Doig Review by Ron Franscell

  • Cruddy by Lynda Barry Review by Janice P. Nimura

  • All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills Review by Carey Harrison

  • A Certain Age by Tama Janowitz Review by Autumn Stephens

  • The Mark Of the Angel by Nancy Huston Review by David Wiegand

  • The Last Life by Claire Messud Review by Cathryn Alpert

  • Hart's War by John Katzenbach Review by David Lazarus

  • The Tentmaker by Michelle Blake
  • Quit Monks or Die by Maxine Kumin
  • In Praise of Lies by Patricia Melo
  • Deep Background by David Corn
    Review by Ellen McGarrahan

  • The Wilder Sisters by Jo-Ann Mapson Review by Cathryn Alpert

  • L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais Review by Robert Ward

  • Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark Review by Marilee Strong

    LA Times
  • Lovers for a Day; New and Collected Stories by Ivan Klima Review by Jonathan Levi

  • The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte Review by Nick Owchar

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut Review by Dale Singer

  • Heartwood by James Lee Burke Review by Helen Verongos

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