Fiction Review Source: A Literary Link to Current Fiction
JUNE

Sunday June 28, 1998
New York Times Book Review
  • Park City: New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie Review by Lorrie Moore

  • Tne Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa Review by Walter Kendrick

  • The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga Review by David Willis McCullough

  • About a Boy by Nick Hornby Review by Hal Espen

  • The Handsome Sailor by Larry Duberstein Review by Jay Parini

    Books in Brief
  • Midsummer Night by Uwe Timm Review by Bill Christophersen

  • The Written Script by Annalita Marsigli Review by Martha E. Stone

  • Gold by the Inch by Lawrence Chua Review by Anderson Tepper

  • A Last Glass of Tea and Other Stories by Mohammed El-Bisati Review by David Masello

  • Five Fortunes by Beth Gutcheon Review by Betsy Groban

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin by Richard Teleky Review by Claire Messud

  • In the Night Season by Richard Bausch Review by Donna Rifkind

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Taking It Down by Kim McLarin Review by Quinn Eli

  • Now it's Time to Say Goodbye by Dale Peck Review by Robert Huber

  • Thirst by Ken Kalfus Review by James Held

  • The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman Review by Karen Heller

  • Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White Review by Martha Woodall

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Now it's Time to Say Goodbye by Dale Peck Review by David Wiegand

  • Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard Review by Brigitte Frase

  • Gonna take a Homicidal Journey by Sandra Scoppettone Review by Ellen McGarrahan

  • The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain Review by Rebecca Rather

  • Wakefulness by John Ashbery Review by Tom Clark

  • Bittersweet Journey: A Modestly Erotic Novel about Love, Longing, and Chocolate by Enid Futterman
    Review by Henry Jaglom

  • The Exes by Pagan Kennedy Review by Carey Harrison

    LA Times
  • The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald Review by Richard Eder

  • Identity by Milan Kundera
  • Farewell Waltz by Milna Kundera Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

  • The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte Review by Nick Owchar

    Friday June 26, 1998
    Washington Post
  • My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki Review by Carolyn See

    Tuesday June 23, 1998
    Washington Post
  • Bless the Thief by Alan Wall Review by David Nicholson

    Monday June 22, 1998
    Washington Post
  • Hemingway's Chair by Michael Palin Review by Gary Krist

    Sunday June 21, 1998
    New York Times Book Review
  • A World Away by Stewart O'Nan Review by Timothy Foote

  • Now It's Time to Say Goodbye by Dale Peck Review by Craig Seligman

  • Gain by Richard Powers Review by Bruce Bawer

  • Lost Lake: Stories by Mark Slouka Review by Gary Amdahl

  • Shut Up and Deal by Jess May Review by Walter Goodman

  • River Angel by A. Manette Ansay Review by Judith Grossman

    Books in Brief:
  • House of Days by Jay Parini Review by Bill Christophersen

  • The Best of Friends by Joanna Trollope Review by Nina Sonenberg

  • Bordeaux by Soledad Puertolas Review by Christopher Atamian

  • The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy Review by Julie Gray

  • The Angel Max by Peter Glassgold Review by Jim Gladstone

  • Slaughter-matic by Steve Aylett Review by Michael Porter

    Washington Post Book World
  • The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara Review by Mark A. Bradley

  • The Last Paradise by James D. Houston Review by Wayne Karlin

  • Park City: New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie Review by Andy Solomon

  • Glorie by Caryn James Review by Audrey C. Foote

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Medea: A Modern Retelling by Christa Wolf
  • Identity by Milan Kundera Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon

  • Marchlands by Karla Kuban Review by Peter Landry

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White Review by Georgia Jones-Davis

  • A World Away by Stewart O'Nan Review by Carey Harrison

    LA Times
  • The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
  • Loves that Bind by Julian Rios
  • The Undiscovered Country by Samantha Gillison
  • The Sinaloa Story by Barry Gifford
  • Secrets by Nuruddin Farah
    Review by Sarah Salter Reynolds

  • Gain by Richard Powers Review by Richard Eder

    Friday June 19, 1998
    New York Times
  • Man or Mango: a Lament by Lucy Ellmann Review by Michiko kakutani

    Thursday June 18, 1998
    New York Times
  • The Odd Sea by Frederick Reiken Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    Sunday June 14, 1998
    New York Times Book Review
  • How It All Began by Nikolai Bukharin Review by Scott McLemee

  • Loves That Bind by Julian Rios Review by Abigail Lee-Sax

  • The Ark of the Marindor by Barry Targan Review by Aoibheann Sweeney

  • I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb Review by Karen Karbo

  • The Priest Fainted by Catherine Temma Davidson Review by Lisa Shea

  • Medea: A Modern Retelling by Christa Wolf Review by David R. Slavitt

  • Hitler's Angel by Kris Rusch Review by Josh Rubins

    Books in Brief
  • The Ibis Tapestry by Mike Nichol Review by Erik Burns

  • The Next Step in the Dance by Tim Gautreaux Review by Andy Solomon

  • Ghost Country by Sara Paaretsky Review by David Galef

  • Bubbeh by Sabrina Berman Review by Michael Lowenthal

  • Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks Review by Sarah Harrison Smith

    Washington Post Book World
  • Thieves of Paradise by Yusef Komunyakaa Review by Rafael Campo

  • The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser Review by A.S Byatt

  • Barney's Polan's Game by Charley Rosen Review by Fredrick McKissack Jr.

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Final Vinyl Days and Other Stories by Jill McCorkle Review by Susan Balee

  • The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard Review by Greg Morago

  • My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Anna Mundow

  • The Page Turner by David Leavitt Review by Julia M. Klein

  • Switcheroo by Olivia Goldsmith Review by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Fall of the Sparrow by Robert Hellenga Review by Rebecca Radner

  • On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons Review by Dennis Love

  • My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Michael Upchurch

  • Sleeping with Random Beasts by Karin Goodwin Review by Karen Rile

    LA Times
  • Midsummer Night by Uwe Timm Review by Richard Eder

  • Blue Bossa by Bart Schneider Review by David Thomson

    Tuesday June 9, 1998
    New York Times
  • Loves That Bind by Julian Rios Review by Michiko Kakutani

    Monday June 8, 1998
    New York Times
  • Park City: New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    Sunday June 7, 1998
    New York Times Book Review
  • Freedomland by Richard Price Review by Francine Prose

  • The Treatment by Daniel Menaker Review by Jim Shephard

  • In the Night Season by Richard Bausch Review by A.O. Scott

  • Groundwork by Robert Welch Review by Peter S. Prescott

  • No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman Review by David Gates

  • The Red Hat by John Bayley Review by Judith Shulevitz

  • The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve Review by Kaura Jamison

    Books in Brief:
  • The Unexpected Salami by Laurie Shapiro Review by Anthony Bourdain

  • Last Vanities by Fleur Jaeggy Review by William Ferguson

  • The Search for the Savin' Sam by William Carter Review by Denise Gess

  • What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg Review by Janet Kaye

  • Chocolate Jesus by Stephan Jaramillo Review by Valerie Steiker

  • Leaving Alva by Victoria Lipman Review by Kimberly B. Marlowe

    Washington Post Book World
  • Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller Review by Jameson Currier

  • Now It's Time To Say Goodbye by Dale Peck Review by Dwight Garnet

  • The Boy by Maeem Murr Review by Hans Johnson

  • The Page Turner by David Leavitt Review by John-Manuel Andriote

    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy Review by Tim Warren

  • Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Feilding Review by Jennfier Weiner

  • The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard Review by Greg Morago

  • The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker Review by Lisa Zeidner

    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Gain by Richard Powers Review by Greil Marcus

  • Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Review by Sarah Coleman

  • Petty Crimes by Gary Soto Review by Mark Hall

    LA Times
  • Man or Mango by Lucy Ellmann Review by Richard Eder

  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol Review by Leonard Michaels

  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis Review by Alfred MacAdam

  • She Loves Me by Peter Esterhazy Review by Thomas McGonigle

  • How It All Began by Nikolai Bukharin Review by Richard Lourie

  • The Castle by Franz Kafka Review by Aharon Appelfeld

    Tuesday June 2, 1998
    New York Times
  • The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker Review by Michiko Kakutani


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