Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
JULY

Monday July 27, 1998
New York Times
  • Too Cool by Duff Brenna Review by Richard Bernstein

    Sunday July 26, 1998
    New York Times
  • The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald Review by Roberta Silman

  • This is My Daughter by Roxana Robinson Review by Diana Postlethwaite

  • Thirst by Ken Kalfus Review by Ron Carlson

  • The Black Brook by Tom Drury Review by Luc Sante

  • Cordelia Underwood: Or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League
    by Van Reid Review by Kit Reed

  • The Exes by Pagan Kennedy Review by Stephen J. Dubner

  • Dog Days by Daniel Lyons Review by J.D. Biersdorfer

    Books in Brief:
  • Ghost Children by Sue Townsend Review by Allen Lincoln

  • Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments: New and Old Poems, 1957-1997
    by George Garrett Review by Garner McFall

  • My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki Review by Lisa Funderburg

  • Calvert Casey: the Collected Stories by Calvert Casey Review by James Polk

  • Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine Review by Mark Lindquist

  • Articles of Faith by Robert L. Rudin Review by Andy Solomon

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • A Crowded Heart by Nicholas Papandreou Review by Catherine Temma Davidson

  • Misadventures in the (213) by Dennis Hensley Review by Brian Gunn

  • This is My Daughter by Roxana Robinson Review by Melissa Levine

  • A Conspiracy of Tall Men by Noah Hawley Review by Marc Igler

  • nixoncarver by Mark Maxwell Review by Robert Gluck

  • I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb Review by Erika Taylor

    Washington Post Book World
  • Mrs. Einstein by Anna McGrail Review by Jay Parini

  • The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by John Derbyshire

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Turnip Blues by Helen Campbell Review by Susan Balee

  • The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by Georgia Jones-Davis

  • Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson Review by Gregory Feeley

  • The Iron Bridge by David Morse Review by Gregory Frost

  • The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon

    LA Times
  • My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Jeff Turrentine

    Sunday July 19, 1998
    New York Times Book Review
  • Secrets by Nuriddin Farah Review by George Packer

  • Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai Review by Zia Jaffrey

  • On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons Review by Kathryn Harrison

  • The Boy by Naeem Murr Review by Margot Livesey

  • Penn Greek Drama Series Review by Daniel Mendelsohn

  • Going East: Poems by Frederick Seidel Review by Melanie Rehak

  • Final Vinyl Days: And Other Stories by Jill McCorkle Review by Meg Wolitzer

  • The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman Review by Lore Dickstein

    Books in Brief:
  • Weird Women, Wired Women by Kit Reed Review by Enid Shomer

  • Lambs of God by Marele Day Review by Julie Gray

  • Dreamer by Jack Butler Review by Bill Hayes

  • Summer Sisters by Judy Blume Review by Ruth Coughlin

  • The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler Review by Erik Burns

  • Justine by Alice Thompson Review by Jennifer Kornreich

    Washington Post Book World
  • Apples From the Desert: Selected Stories by Savyon Liebrecht Review by Beryl Lieff Benderly

  • Strachey's Folly by Richard Stevenson Review by Carolyn Banks

  • The Last Resort by Alison Lurie Review by Jonathan Yardley

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Gain by Richard Powers Review by Gregory Feeley

  • Gone for Good by Mark Childress Review by Roger Catlin

  • The Exes by Pagan Kennedy Review by Paula Friedman

  • The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer Review by James Held

  • Dreamer by Charles Johnson Review by Farah Jasmine Griffin

  • Secrets by Nurrudin Farah Review by T. Obinkaram Echewa

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Last Resort by Alison Lurie Review by Sarah Coleman

  • The Girl in the Flammable Suit by Aimee Bender Review by Carol Lloyd

  • The Flower in the Skull by Kathleen Alcala Review by Melissa Levine

    LA Times
  • Talking to the Dead and Your Blue-Eyed Boy
    by Helen Dumore Review by Phyllis Richardson

  • Object of Your Love: Stories by Dorothy Speak
  • The Nightbird Cantata by Donald Rawley
  • A German Picturesque by Jason Schwartz
  • Ahmed's Revenge by Richard Wiley
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Wednesday July 15, 1998
    New York Times
  • Once Upon the River Love by Andrei Makine Review by Richard Bernstein

    Monday July 13, 1998
    New York Times
  • Lucky Bastard by Charles McGarry Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    Sunday July 12, 1998
    New York Times Book Review
  • The Last Resort by Alison Lurie Review by Francine Prose

  • Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price Review by Janet Burroway

  • Missing Women and Others: Stories by June Spence Review by Laura Miller

  • Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes Review by Jamie James

  • Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard Review by A. O. Scott

  • The Dumb House: A Chamber Novel by John Burnside Review by James Saynor

  • Cupid and Diana by Chrisina Bartolomeo Review by Valerie Frankel

  • Vain Empires: Poems by William Logan Review by Henry Taylor

  • Fear by Simon Lane Review by Tobin Harshaw

  • Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White Review by Tom Drury

    Books in Brief:
  • Defiance by Carole Maso Review by Patrick Farrell

  • The Overseer by Jonathan Rabb Review by Charles Salzberg

  • Mrs. Einstein by Anna McGrail Review by Willaim Ferguson

  • The Buddha in Malibu by William Harrison Review by Paula Freidman

  • The Sinoloa Story by Barry Gifford Review by Anthony Bourdain

    Washington Post Book World
    Ghost Country by Sara Paretsky Review by Grace Lichtenstein

  • On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons Review by Susan Dood

  • This is My Daughter by Roxanna Robinson Review by Susan Goodman

  • Lucky Bastard by Charles McGarry Review by Jonathan Yardley

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass Review by Michale Barnard

  • Final Vinyl by Jill McCorkle Review by Courtney Weaver

  • Inhuman Beings by Jerry Jay Carroll Review by Andy Solomon

    LA Times
  • A World Away by Stewart O'Nan Review by Richard Eder

  • I Know This Much is True by Wally lamb Review by Jean Hanff Korelitz

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Park City, New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie Review by Roland Kelts

  • Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes Review by David Walton

  • Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke Review by David Delman

    Tuesday July 7, 1998
    New York Times
  • About a Boy by Nick Hornby Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Washington Post
  • Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass Review by David Nicholson

    Monday July 6, 1998
    New York Times
  • The Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam Review by Richard Bernstein

    Washington Post
  • Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk Review by Wendy Orent

    Sunday July 5, 1998
    New York Times Book Review
  • My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Sarah Kerr

  • Salvation and Other Disasters: Short Stores by Josip Novakovich Review by William Cobb

  • Gettin It in the Head by Mike McCormack Review by Michael Upchurch

    Books in Brief

  • Stripping Away the Sorrows From This World by Jesus Gardea Review by James Polk

  • Blues for Hannah By Timm Farrington Review by Zofia Smarbe

  • Nineteen to the Dozen by Sholom Aleichem Review by Sander Brawarsky

  • Good Fences by Erika Ellis Review by Betsy Groban

  • The Fire Gospels by Mike Magnuson Review by Erik Burns

  • Highway Trade by John Domini Review by Norah Vincent

    Washington Post Book World
  • I know this Much is True by Wally Lamb Review by Mary Kay Zuravleff

  • Gain by Richard Powers Review by Thomas M. Disch

  • Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett Review by Brian Jacomb

  • Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Review by Tamsin Todd

  • A World Away by Stewart O'Nan Review by Peter McCarthy

  • Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes Review by Shashi Tharoor

  • How it all Began by Nicolai Bukharin Review by Oleg D. Kalugin

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • A Widow for One Year by John Irving Review by Peter Landry

  • This is My Daughter by Roxanna Robinson Review by Carole Goldberg

  • Fairy Tale by Alice Thomas Ellis Review by Frank Wilson

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanaugh Review by Kein Berger

  • The Treatment by Daniel Menaker Review by Elizabeth Judd

  • Secrets by Nuruddin Farah Review by Lisa Meyer

  • Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke Review by Joe Gores

  • Grace: A Fictional Memoir by Robert Ward Review by Robert Ward
    LA Times
  • Too Cool by Duff Brenna
  • Ingratitude by Ying Chen
  • The Iron Bridge by David Morse
  • The Lake Dreams of the Sky by Swain Wolfe
  • The Exes by Pagan Kennedy
    Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

    Friday July 3, 1998
    New York Times
  • The Last Resort by Alison Lurie Review by Michiko Kakutani

    LA Times
  • Gone for Good by Mark Childress Review by Merle Rubin


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