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		<title>Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the United States held firm during the Great Depression. Weekly trips to the neighborhood movie house, looking at photos of a revitalized nation in <em>Life Magazine</em>, 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.]]></description>
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		<title>Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1799</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops into the high alpine meadows of literary and psychoanalytic theory, he still sticks closely to the text he’s given. And though he probably doesn’t believe half of what he’s saying, it does pass the logical plausibility test.]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Side of the Tracks</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/682</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jem Bloomfeld</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Murdering Miss Austen</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/292</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic satire survived the intervening centuries of industrialization, through revolution and war, as well as the whirligig of literary fashions (whose onslaught took down others as great) may finally be deflated or drowned in the crazy waves of idiot’s delights!]]></description>
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		<title>Brontë in Brussels</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/213</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trilby Kent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled upon a scene which would have appealed to Brontë’s eye for cross-cultural interactions: under the gaze of a watchful Sphinx, a group of Indians were struggling to teach some Belgian children the game of cricket.]]></description>
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		<title>Between Alpha and Omega: Some Observations on Poetry and Poetry’s Task in our Time</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/50</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We lived heretofore in the multitude of villages scattered world-wide amongst the ruins of the Tower of Babel.  Civilization’s tapestry, its complicated patterns interwoven from multitudes of poets and poetries, once covered their walls and held our attention.  Will there come to be in the global village but one faceless, boring bard who speaks with the reduced, infinitely reductive voice the simplified and platitudinous messages of the Media?]]></description>
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		<title>Archival Culture(s)</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/47</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
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It is scarcely news that in a vast, pluralistic country like the United States, minorities should feel themselves threatened with absorption into the larger society, and that they should cling to some form of cultural identity.  It begins poignantly when school children pledge allegiance to “ &#8230; one nation, indivisible, with freedom and justice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Borges: A Poet&#8217;s Quest for Simplicity</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/43</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miha Pintaric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simplicity requires oneness. If you want to be someone, you are two and you are not simple. If you want to be simple, you are also two and you are not simple.]]></description>
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		<title>No Heroes Need Apply</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/29</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the time we come to T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920’s, we find a hero characteristic of the period of entre les deux guerres: he is either passive and/or maimed in his masculinity; that is, fatally in his (phallic) heroism.]]></description>
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		<title>Stemming from … Nowhere?</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/26</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence's genius, it was given by his close friend Aldous Huxley in an introduction to the first collected letters shortly after his death: he was a mystical materialist.  And thereon hangs the tale I shall unfold.]]></description>
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		<title>Lola! Lola! Lola!</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/23</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion of Art's secular epiphany takes us to Vladimir Nabokov, a reader of Joyce.  As I recall, it was about 1956 or so that an excerpt of his then unpublishable LOLITA appeared in an early number of Anchor Review.]]></description>
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		<title>The Life of R.K. Narayan</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/21</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nandan Datta</dc:creator>
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R.K. Narayan
 
Narayan&#8217;s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and humor, about a fictional town Malgudi and its inhabitants; and their little lives. Narayan is a classic teller of tales; an enduring appeal springs from his canvas where common men and women of all times and places are joined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Bottom&#8217;s Blessing</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/20</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity's sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice.  Both however are necessary.]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections On the Work of Paul Auster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Auster is a writer, who like Beckett is obsessed with identity and the way it is constructed out of and through the medium of stories, words, or even the thinnest of airs.]]></description>
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		<title>Life Without Max: The Genius of W.G. Sebald</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garan Holcombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Other writers such as Geoff Dyer and Alain de Botton have also established themselves as exponents of a similar type of hybrid writing style. Yet they are more obviously producing non-fiction and neither has written anything to rival   Austerlitz, the best of Sebald’s work.]]></description>
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		<title>Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nandan Datta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many trials and as many errors, I finally made it one August. It was the festival of the earth. ]]></description>
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		<title>Watchman, What of the Night?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely recognized, let alone understood.]]></description>
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