<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>California Literary Review &#187; Great Britain</title>
	<atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/great-britain/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://calitreview.com</link>
	<description>Book reviews, essays, and author interviews.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:17:04 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Small Wars by Sadie Jones</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/6193</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/6193#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyprus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sadie Jones]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=6193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable Mickey Mouse conflict; it was a sinister time of terror and repression. The British were misguided and ignorant; the Cypriots were lethargic and foolish. The Cypriots loved the British; the Cypriots hated the British. The British were torturers; the British were decent and honourable. EOKA were terrorists; EOKA were heroes.”]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/6193/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Churchill by Paul Johnson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/5636</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/5636#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War I]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’” Here the biographer also observes,  “So the first true victory Britain won in the war was the victory of oratory and symbolism.  Churchill was responsible for both.”]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5636/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Love and Summer by William Trevor</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/5515</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/5515#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Trevor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The once long and amorous days wane too soon in circumscription. A small chill creeps down from the hills. Something is about to end. Then someone leaves town. Someone always leaves town.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5515/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4828</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/4828#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European history]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and which permeates our cultural history from Rudyard Kipling (“What say the reeds at Runnymede?”) to Tony Hancock (“Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?! Brave Hungarian peasant girl…”) was produced by a power struggle between the military aristocracy and the monarchy. Any resulting “liberty” for ordinary people was a waste product of the medieval warlord industry.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4828/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4591</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/4591#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Cappello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mari Strachan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a matriarch’s fox fur, and interprets the ever-changing moods of the decorative beer steins on the mantle. Gwenni is a contradictory combination of fearlessness and naiveté, unable to discern the boundary between her imaginative world and the real one. In this way, she recalls such classic girl heroines as Anne of Green Gables or Jo from <em>Little Women</em>. But it’s her similarity with another classic heroine, Nancy Drew, which really draws readers into her world.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4591/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>In the Kitchen by Monica Ali</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4480</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/4480#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monica Ali]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe) to finally acknowledge. He dies alone in the kitchen’s basement, the victim of a tragic accident. Or is it more…? ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4480/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4131</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/4131#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[current events]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and <em>Waiting for the Etonians</em> 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, <em>Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England</em>, 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.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4131/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Bolter by Frances Osborne</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4113</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/4113#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twentieth century]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania, drug use; but also gives us access to a fearless beauty with gifts of intelligence, wit, and extraordinary powers to attract the opposite sex. Then too, she reveals that her antics as combined with her endowments were nevertheless insufficient in her hunt for love and lasting affection.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4113/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2601</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/2601#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agincourt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Cornwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fifteenth century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Ages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole.  Alongside the loud cynicism of its insistence that the battles are meaningless, the church is corrupt and the aristocracy live in a different world, <em>Agincourt</em> continually asserts a broadly positive, modern outlook.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2601/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2408</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/2408#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boer War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erskine Childers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Riddle of the Sands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War I]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a tale of adventure with the reality of Britain’s imperial overreach thus beginning a genre that – as continued by the likes of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré – has matured into one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2408/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2184</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/2184#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Nicolson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quarrel with the King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seventeenth century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sixteenth century]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent the modern world can scarcely grasp, in the rights of the community as a living organism.”]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2184/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1730</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/1730#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Redford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dilettanti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eighteenth century]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away while making rude gestures about vaginas while holding up gemstones from classical antiquity and admiring painted Greco-Roman vases.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1730/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1680</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/1680#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Most Wanted Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Le Carré]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over the last three hundred pages – did we will this? Are we guilty of this ending, if only by five percent? The brutal inanity of the dialogue is a warning that in Le Carré’s world, we don’t get to argue over the proportions and scale of what we set in motion.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1680/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/944</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/944#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Ann Shaffer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in February of this year and thus missed her own miracle—best-sellerdom for a first book written by an already “mature” librarian, former bookseller, and unpublished, aspiring writer. The good news, however, is that her opus is engaging, ingenious and ahead of the publishing game.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/944/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s Letters to his Children</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/794</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/794#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rudyard kipling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A Nobelist, a wordmonger, enshrined in Western memory, answer his supporters. All of these Kipling has been, but it is as a father, first and foremost, that he appears in <em>O Beloved Kids</em>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/794/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/748</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/748#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alison Weir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sixteenth century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lady Elizabeth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=748</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically. Readers don’t mind sex, we’re very fond of it in some cases, but we do mind when it’s over the top. And what jars in the racier bits jars overall. Underneath the adjectives and adverbs, there’s a streamlined, engaging book in here. It just needed a firm editor on passages like these]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/748/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Right Side of the Tracks</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/682</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/682#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety about them. The ability to travel across Britain at such speeds was exciting, but also potentially unsettling for a social system which still, in many ways, preferred that people remained “in their place”. When Sir Henry Baskerville is being followed by an unknown bearded man in London, he suspects it may be the butler from Baskerville Hall, and sends a telegram to check whether or not “Barrymore is at his post in Devonshire.”]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/682/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/647</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/647#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Andrews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Burton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/theatre/647/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right direction. She doesn't say much about what he did in the 48 hours of rehearsal that he devoted to her, but she does include one of his most memorable lines. When asked by his wife how the session had gone, he replied, "Oh she'll be fine. She has that <em>terrible</em> British strength that makes you wonder how they ever lost India." <em>My Fair Lady</em> was a hit and she belted it, day in, day out, both on Broadway and in London, fitting in her twenty-first birthday and a marriage to Tony Walton in the meantime.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/647/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/436</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/436#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/great-britain/436/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the slow progress of human knowledge” was “the imperfections of language, both as an instrument of thought and a medium of communication.” It was on that June morning that Dugald Stewart implanted in his disciple a mission which was to occupy him for the rest of his life.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/436/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/369</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/369#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art exhibit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dallas Museum of Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.M.W. Turner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/art/369/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of man in the later paintings of Turner. This was an ironic juxtaposition of his painterly vision with the spirit of his times. For the progressive spirit of early Victorian Britain was propagating a world view whereby the industrial juggernaut of railroads, steam ships and factories would reshape the world to suit humankind’s fancy.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/369/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/282</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/282#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Bennett]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/11/12/the-uncommon-reader-by-alan-bennett/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle rhythm. And of course, there is that dry wit. Bennett has a genius for the sardonic one-liner, his timing is immaculate.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/282/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/255</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/255#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/09/05/plucked-from-perdition-one-who-lived-to-tell-her-tale/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station at 5 pm that afternoon, to take only one small suitcase and nothing which could identify me, not even newspaper as wrapping. At the station, the lady explained through an interpreter (another refugee living in the same house as my mother), I would see people I knew, but I should on no account appear to know them.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/255/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/253</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/253#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/08/30/arlington-park-by-rachel-cusk/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned hedges’. We follow five married women who live there, all of whom, we are to imagine, are in early middle-age. They have young children and live in nice, comfortable houses. They do not want for money. But each is beset by worries as to the nature and meaning of their domesticated, suburban lives.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/253/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>So Many Ways To Begin by Jon McGregor</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/238</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/238#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon McGregor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/07/16/so-many-ways-to-begin-by-jon-mcgregor/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David and Eleanor’s story is an unremarkable one. But their ordinary disappointments and frustrations are precisely what make the novel memorable. McGregor generates great poignancy by naming each chapter after various fragments of the characters’ lives, a letter, a photograph, an old wooden boat. Like Roddy Doyle, McGregor takes uncelebrated lives and invests them with dignity and depth.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/238/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/237</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/237#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/07/12/red-carpets-and-other-banana-skins-by-rupert-everett/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age, the gay with a capital "G" nineties, Oscar Wilde and the pursuit of beauty, art for arts sake, and to hell with propriety.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/237/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/235</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/235#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/07/09/the-perfect-summer-by-juliet-nicolson/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled an impressive body of memoirs and biographies so as to bring to life any number of entertaining, if gossipy personal vignettes. For example: “Life without champagne was inconceivable for Winston [Churchill].” “Henry Crust joining Lord Curzon in a nude tennis doubles tennis match against George Wyndham and Wilfrid Blunt.” “[The Earl of Lonsdale]…a man apparently incapable of enjoying a healthy sex life with a member of his own class: he collapsed, dead of a heart attack while in action in his own private brothel.”]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/235/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Yorkists by Anne Crawford</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/232</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/232#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fifteenth century]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/06/28/the-yorkists-by-anne-crawford/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English history and most modern readers’ view of the period is heavily colored by Shakespeare. He portrayed the bitter civil war known as the Wars of the Roses as divine punishment for the Lancastrian usurpation and the murder of Richard II, and in his portrayal of Richard III he created one of the most magnificent villains of the English stage.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/232/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/228</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/228#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Ellam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian McEwan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/06/21/on-chesil-beach-by-ian-mcewan/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Repression, fear and even loathing run through her mind as she braces herself for what is to come after their meal. We are told in the first sentence that they are ‘young, educated and both virgins’ and she is unwilling to alter this state. Her only knowledge of sex is derived from a manual and she has convinced herself that she is without desire.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/228/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Believers and Infidels</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/215</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/215#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiliam Dalrymple</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//2007/06/12/believers-and-infidels/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as culturally, the British had nothing to learn from India and much to teach; it did not take long for imperial arrogance to set in. This arrogance, when combined with the rise of Evangelical Christianity, slowly came to affect all aspects of relations between the British and the Indians.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/215/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the British Blues Revival</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/214</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/214#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gayle F. Wald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performing Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rock and Roll]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//2007/06/11/sister-rosetta-tharpe-and-the-british-blues-revival/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interest in Rosetta in Britain was part and parcel of a larger trend: the postwar blues revival, which saw the emergence of a white public who “sought a heightened reality in the realm of black American song.”]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/214/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
