http://calitreview.com Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:57:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://calitreview.com/7665 http://calitreview.com/7665#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:50:38 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=7665 http://calitreview.com/7665/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/7413 http://calitreview.com/7413#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:00:52 +0000 Jem Bloomfeld http://calitreview.com/?p=7413 Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what people in authority are up to. Rather, it attempts the trickier task of explaining why a set of conspiracy theories do not hold water on close examination, and accounting for how they differ from traditional historical explanations - what is specifically “conspiracist” about them.]]> http://calitreview.com/7413/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/7150 http://calitreview.com/7150#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:26:42 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=7150 http://calitreview.com/7150/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/6269 http://calitreview.com/6269#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:13:15 +0000 Judith Harris http://calitreview.com/?p=6269 http://calitreview.com/6269/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/6150 http://calitreview.com/6150#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:31:23 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com/?p=6150 http://calitreview.com/6150/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5837 http://calitreview.com/5837#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:52:56 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=5837 http://calitreview.com/5837/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5690 http://calitreview.com/5690#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:42:30 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/?p=5690 http://calitreview.com/5690/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/5743 http://calitreview.com/5743#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:36:49 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=5743 The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War, I have the sneaky suspicion that there's not much love lost for George Bush, either.]]> http://calitreview.com/5743/feed 9 http://calitreview.com/5708 http://calitreview.com/5708#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:32:49 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=5708 http://calitreview.com/5708/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/5636 http://calitreview.com/5636#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:46:59 +0000 Julia Braun Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=5636 http://calitreview.com/5636/feed 2 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 1 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 5 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 1 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 0 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