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/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/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/21026 http://calitreview.com/21026#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:07:58 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=21026 http://calitreview.com/21026/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/18000 http://calitreview.com/18000#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:59:53 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=18000 Black Death exploit the historical context to take shots at organized religion with impunity. A select few try to balance the mistakes of the early church with the importance of faith over dogma - an approach that Season Of The Witch admittedly tried, but got lost too far up its own butt to realize. Black Death tends toward the latter type of story, but pushes its acid satire into fairly new territory.]]> http://calitreview.com/18000/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/15577 http://calitreview.com/15577#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:27:31 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=15577 http://calitreview.com/15577/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/14602 http://calitreview.com/14602#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:46:09 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=14602 http://calitreview.com/14602/feed 1 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/13701 http://calitreview.com/13701#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:32:05 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=13701 The Way Back, a tale of daring escape by prisoners of war. In due fashion this week's Listicle salutes the soldier in film. From comedy to adventure to stark, sobering drama, soldiers have faced a great deal on the movie screen.]]> http://calitreview.com/13701/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/12251 http://calitreview.com/12251#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:38:45 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=12251 http://calitreview.com/12251/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/11962 http://calitreview.com/11962#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:18:29 +0000 Sam Stowe http://calitreview.com/?p=11962 The Fort. You won't find any shellacked heroes here. His patriots range from the committed few to the mercenary many and include a host of men who have been shanghaied ("Impressed" was the term of the day) into serving their country involuntarily.]]> http://calitreview.com/11962/feed 4 http://calitreview.com/7722 http://calitreview.com/7722#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:20:16 +0000 Katie Cappello http://calitreview.com/?p=7722 A Separate Country tells the story of Confederate General John Bell Hood, who moves to New Orleans after the war and marries a Creole debutante. Hood is a haunted man who has been physically marked by the war; he has lost a leg and the use of an arm. In addition, he can only excel militarily, and his life as a businessman is a resounding failure. Nevertheless, he finds love with the young beauty Anna Marie and they have eleven children together.]]> http://calitreview.com/7722/feed 0 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 4 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 Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=2601 Agincourt continually asserts a broadly positive, modern outlook.]]> http://calitreview.com/2601/feed 2 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 192 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 63 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 Bloomfield 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