http://calitreview.com Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:30:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://calitreview.com/5468 http://calitreview.com/5468#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:19:19 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=5468 The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and experience years of distilled effort and research. Like Diego Rivera’s murals, it is a lager-than-life work full of color, life, and movement, one executed by a masterful artist at the height of her creative powers.]]> http://calitreview.com/5468/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/4879 http://calitreview.com/4879#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:39:49 +0000 Judith Harris http://calitreview.com/?p=4879 The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss, of art and lost art, of wars lost and then won and lost again, of rich gentleman Jews and Jews lost to Nazi madness. His broad canvas covers the decades of Mittel-European horrors that began in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. The themes are familiar, but treated in a fresh and stimulating, not to say disturbing, way. ]]> http://calitreview.com/4879/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4639 http://calitreview.com/4639#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:10:57 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=4639 Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you directly for a moment," quoth our modern man. It is no accident that Homer addresses his story to a French reporter whom he briefly met. For, in a way, his account is his own universal newspaper, an elegy to the disintegration of 20th century America, the winding down of the clock.]]> http://calitreview.com/4639/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/2601 http://calitreview.com/2601#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:14:07 +0000 Jem Bloomfeld http://calitreview.com/?p=2601 Agincourt continually asserts a broadly positive, modern outlook.]]> http://calitreview.com/2601/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/2539 http://calitreview.com/2539#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:25:48 +0000 Lisa Montanarelli http://calitreview.com/?p=2539 http://calitreview.com/2539/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/2526 http://calitreview.com/2526#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:59:28 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=2526 http://calitreview.com/2526/feed 50 http://calitreview.com/1274 http://calitreview.com/1274#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:24:48 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=1274 http://calitreview.com/1274/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/1050 http://calitreview.com/1050#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:15:49 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=1050 http://calitreview.com/1050/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/944 http://calitreview.com/944#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:44:42 +0000 Julia Braun Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=944 http://calitreview.com/944/feed 41 http://calitreview.com/846 http://calitreview.com/846#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:07:54 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=846 http://calitreview.com/846/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/748 http://calitreview.com/748#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:06:25 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=748 http://calitreview.com/748/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/472 http://calitreview.com/472#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:16:29 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/topics/historical-fiction/472/ Coffee with Aristotle is just right – now if only the longer treatises were as palatable.]]> http://calitreview.com/472/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/275 http://calitreview.com/275#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:25:43 +0000 Vikram Johri http://calitreview.com/2007/10/25/the-snake-stone-by-jason-goodwin/ http://calitreview.com/275/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/264 http://calitreview.com/264#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:53:21 +0000 Jem Bloomfeld http://calitreview.com/2007/10/03/the-solution-to-history/ http://calitreview.com/264/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/175 http://calitreview.com/175#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:14:21 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com//fiction-reviews/the-true-account-a-novel-of-the-lewis-and-clark-and-kinneson-expeditions-by-howard-frank-mosher/ http://calitreview.com/175/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/94 http://calitreview.com/94#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:33:27 +0000 Julia Braun Kessler http://calitreview.com//fiction-reviews/the-uses-of-memory-by-aharon-appelfeld/ http://calitreview.com/94/feed 0