http://calitreview.com Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:18:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://calitreview.com/5417 http://calitreview.com/5417#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:54:28 +0000 David Lida http://calitreview.com/?p=5417 http://calitreview.com/5417/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5406 http://calitreview.com/5406#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:53:45 +0000 Ryan Van Cleave http://calitreview.com/?p=5406 http://calitreview.com/5406/feed 4 http://calitreview.com/5301 http://calitreview.com/5301#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:29:57 +0000 Rochelle Jewel Shapiro http://calitreview.com/?p=5301 The Third Man that the moment he appeared in public, somebody whipped out an instrument and began playing the theme song. When an organ-grinder began playing the theme while Chris and Orson were crossing Piccadilly Circus, Orson had had it with London. His driver took them way out in the country to picnic in an isolated spot surrounded by hedges. A man on a bicycle saw them, stopped short, and suddenly whipped out his harmonica to play The Third Man theme song.]]> http://calitreview.com/5301/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5245 http://calitreview.com/5245#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:50:37 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com/?p=5245 http://calitreview.com/5245/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5212 http://calitreview.com/5212#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:20:41 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=5212 http://calitreview.com/5212/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5093 http://calitreview.com/5093#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:48:20 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=5093 http://calitreview.com/5093/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5060 http://calitreview.com/5060#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:48:09 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=5060 http://calitreview.com/5060/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5017 http://calitreview.com/5017#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:06:12 +0000 Peter Bridges http://calitreview.com/?p=5017 http://calitreview.com/5017/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/5000 http://calitreview.com/5000#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:24:43 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=5000 names: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the trade as follows; “The difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex money always costs less.” ]]> http://calitreview.com/5000/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4865 http://calitreview.com/4865#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:46:39 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=4865 Life Magazine, listening to President Roosevelt's Fireside Chats on the radio, following the home team in the still vigorous daily newspapers, these rituals of daily life were the principal means of keeping faith in America's future, of believing that the only thing to fear was fear itself.]]> http://calitreview.com/4865/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4854 http://calitreview.com/4854#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:08:28 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com/?p=4854 http://calitreview.com/4854/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/4840 http://calitreview.com/4840#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:12:28 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=4840 http://calitreview.com/4840/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4828 http://calitreview.com/4828#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000 Jem Bloomfeld http://calitreview.com/?p=4828 http://calitreview.com/4828/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4778 http://calitreview.com/4778#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:11:51 +0000 Ryan Van Cleave http://calitreview.com/?p=4778 http://calitreview.com/4778/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4759 http://calitreview.com/4759#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:45:16 +0000 Peter Bridges http://calitreview.com/?p=4759 New York Tribune during the years between 1852 and 1861. This was after Marx had published the Communist Manifesto and was working on Das Kapital; but his reportage for Greeley, though left-leaning, looks to a modern reader relatively objective. ]]> http://calitreview.com/4759/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/4604 http://calitreview.com/4604#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:14:25 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=4604 http://calitreview.com/4604/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4410 http://calitreview.com/4410#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:24:07 +0000 David Lida http://calitreview.com/?p=4410 http://calitreview.com/4410/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/4192 http://calitreview.com/4192#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:01:42 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com/?p=4192 http://calitreview.com/4192/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4131 http://calitreview.com/4131#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:51:53 +0000 Jem Bloomfeld http://calitreview.com/?p=4131 Waiting for the Etonians will be a genuine treat for readers who have come to rely on his rigorous thinking, stylish phrase-making and carefully controlled rage. The book’s subtitle, Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England, reflects his despair at the current state of left-wing (or “left-ish”) thinking in Britain, which he sees as almost irrevocably compromised by post-modernism, cultural relativism and the focus-group politics of New Labour.]]> http://calitreview.com/4131/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4113 http://calitreview.com/4113#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:05:27 +0000 Julia Braun Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=4113 http://calitreview.com/4113/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4092 http://calitreview.com/4092#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:47:40 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=4092 Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a quest to explore a wide range of professions – biscuit manufacturing, rocket science, career counseling – and reflect on modern work. This idea leads him from the jungles of French Guiana to the wilds of suburban South London. He follows the journey of an African fish to the plate of an English boy.]]> http://calitreview.com/4092/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4079 http://calitreview.com/4079#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:54 +0000 James Abourezk http://calitreview.com/?p=4079 http://calitreview.com/4079/feed 4 http://calitreview.com/4068 http://calitreview.com/4068#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:49:26 +0000 Mark Fitzgerald http://calitreview.com/?p=4068 Eat Sleep Sit, never directly tells us why he goes to Eiheiji, but he brings us inside the walls and describes the year he spent there with remarkable detail and clarity. ]]> http://calitreview.com/4068/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4016 http://calitreview.com/4016#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:00:25 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=4016 I think, therefore I am. Instead it was, I act, therefore I am. As for fishing, Thoreau never tells us what sort of fish there are, or were in his stream; nor if he ever caught anything. It was the fishing that was his active thought, and that sky full of pebbled stars was where his thought was actively cast. That is poetry, and it is untranslatable as paraphrase or a set of maxims. Whereas the sort of profundities Stephen Mitchell sets down in this book — neatly-designed and printed withal — are for this reader rebarbative. ]]> http://calitreview.com/4016/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/3940 http://calitreview.com/3940#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:55:50 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=3940 http://calitreview.com/3940/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/3919 http://calitreview.com/3919#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:06:06 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=3919 http://calitreview.com/3919/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/3887 http://calitreview.com/3887#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:19:54 +0000 Julia Braun Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=3887 http://calitreview.com/3887/feed 6 http://calitreview.com/3806 http://calitreview.com/3806#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:26:58 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=3806 http://calitreview.com/3806/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/3792 http://calitreview.com/3792#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:02:18 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com/?p=3792 http://calitreview.com/3792/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/3389 http://calitreview.com/3389#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:04:07 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com/?p=3389 http://calitreview.com/3389/feed 0