http://calitreview.com An arts and culture magazine. Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://calitreview.com/26975 http://calitreview.com/26975#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000 Holly Hunt http://calitreview.com/?p=26975 http://calitreview.com/26975/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/25943 http://calitreview.com/25943#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:21:22 +0000 Charles J. Haynes http://calitreview.com/?p=25943 http://calitreview.com/25943/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/24881 http://calitreview.com/24881#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:00:45 +0000 Marla Wick http://calitreview.com/?p=24881 http://calitreview.com/24881/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/24570 http://calitreview.com/24570#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:32:22 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=24570 Miss Ravenel's Conversion, published in 1867, the problem for the Civil War novelist is to find a middle ground of hope and harmony upon which the survivors can rebuild their battered lives.]]> http://calitreview.com/24570/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/24203 http://calitreview.com/24203#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:55:53 +0000 Marla Wick http://calitreview.com/?p=24203 The Odditorium immerses the reader in stories woven from a dense and dynamic imagination, exquisitely executed and brilliantly textured.]]> http://calitreview.com/24203/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/23663 http://calitreview.com/23663#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:26:21 +0000 Marla Wick http://calitreview.com/?p=23663 http://calitreview.com/23663/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/22928 http://calitreview.com/22928#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:00:22 +0000 Charles J. Haynes http://calitreview.com/?p=22928 2666 was published. Appearing out of relative obscurity, Bolaño’s novel was soon being discussed as a potential masterpiece and, perhaps more importantly, sustained steady popularity in the bookshops. Sadly though, Bolaño saw none of this: he died only a few months after the first draft was completed and nearly 6 years before the English publication.]]> http://calitreview.com/22928/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/22737 http://calitreview.com/22737#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:00:47 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=22737 The Name of the Rose or the Byzantine byways of Foucault’s Pendulum, this latest might seem to offer a more secure footing from which to enjoy Eco’s intellectual gymnastics. If the endpoint of the novel is The Protocols and mid-century European anti-Semitism, that’s handy. We know what we think about that.]]> http://calitreview.com/22737/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/22728 http://calitreview.com/22728#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:00:34 +0000 Mark Fitzgerald http://calitreview.com/?p=22728 http://calitreview.com/22728/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/22350 http://calitreview.com/22350#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:35:28 +0000 Erin Suzuki http://calitreview.com/?p=22350 http://calitreview.com/22350/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/21630 http://calitreview.com/21630#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:00:55 +0000 Erin Suzuki http://calitreview.com/?p=21630 worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.”]]> http://calitreview.com/21630/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/21221 http://calitreview.com/21221#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:00:28 +0000 Marla Wick http://calitreview.com/?p=21221 http://calitreview.com/21221/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/19958 http://calitreview.com/19958#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:15:37 +0000 Marla Wick http://calitreview.com/?p=19958 http://calitreview.com/19958/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/20520 http://calitreview.com/20520#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:00:05 +0000 Marla Wick http://calitreview.com/?p=20520 http://calitreview.com/20520/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/19605 http://calitreview.com/19605#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:26 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=19605 Mansfield Park, Fanny was, in fact, one of said bloodthirsty beasties. Did anyone ever read Mansfield Park and think “Not bad, but it could do with more of the undead”?]]> http://calitreview.com/19605/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/20332 http://calitreview.com/20332#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:53:22 +0000 Erin Suzuki http://calitreview.com/?p=20332 http://calitreview.com/20332/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/19586 http://calitreview.com/19586#comments Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:30:18 +0000 Charles J. Haynes http://calitreview.com/?p=19586 http://calitreview.com/19586/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/18960 http://calitreview.com/18960#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:30:04 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=18960 Aeneid. You might think that this novel has little new to recommend it besides the unorthodox choice of the Depression as a setting for a romance Rules of Civility, however, is a book of amazing depth. In this, his first novel, Amor Towles reveals an exceptional flair for character development.]]> http://calitreview.com/18960/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/18804 http://calitreview.com/18804#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:32:23 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=18804 http://calitreview.com/18804/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/18605 http://calitreview.com/18605#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:44:39 +0000 Charles J. Haynes http://calitreview.com/?p=18605 http://calitreview.com/18605/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/17138 http://calitreview.com/17138#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 15:33:01 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=17138 http://calitreview.com/17138/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/15717 http://calitreview.com/15717#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 13:34:05 +0000 Abigail Licad http://calitreview.com/?p=15717 http://calitreview.com/15717/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/14942 http://calitreview.com/14942#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:00:29 +0000 Marla Wick http://calitreview.com/?p=14942 http://calitreview.com/14942/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13878 http://calitreview.com/13878#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:19:48 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=13878 The Grapes of Wrath or the Finch children in To Kill a Mockingbird.]]> http://calitreview.com/13878/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/13794 http://calitreview.com/13794#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:50:27 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=13794 http://calitreview.com/13794/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13584 http://calitreview.com/13584#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:00:29 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=13584 http://calitreview.com/13584/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13509 http://calitreview.com/13509#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:00:14 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=13509 http://calitreview.com/13509/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13439 http://calitreview.com/13439#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:00:49 +0000 Julia Braun Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=13439 http://calitreview.com/13439/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13309 http://calitreview.com/13309#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:25:18 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=13309 Port Mortuary, her latest novel about the forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, uses a new narrative device to explore fresh plot territory. But the resulting book is exceptionally difficult to like.]]> http://calitreview.com/13309/feed 21 http://calitreview.com/12688 http://calitreview.com/12688#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:04:55 +0000 Sam Stowe http://calitreview.com/?p=12688 http://calitreview.com/12688/feed 1