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/4092 http://calitreview.com/4092#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:47:40 +0000 Elinor Teele http://calitreview.com/?p=4092 Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a quest to explore a wide range of professions – biscuit manufacturing, rocket science, career counseling – and reflect on modern work. This idea leads him from the jungles of French Guiana to the wilds of suburban South London. He follows the journey of an African fish to the plate of an English boy.]]> http://calitreview.com/4092/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4016 http://calitreview.com/4016#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:00:25 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=4016 I think, therefore I am. Instead it was, I act, therefore I am. As for fishing, Thoreau never tells us what sort of fish there are, or were in his stream; nor if he ever caught anything. It was the fishing that was his active thought, and that sky full of pebbled stars was where his thought was actively cast. That is poetry, and it is untranslatable as paraphrase or a set of maxims. Whereas the sort of profundities Stephen Mitchell sets down in this book — neatly-designed and printed withal — are for this reader rebarbative. ]]> http://calitreview.com/4016/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/1816 http://calitreview.com/1816#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:07:04 +0000 Robert Poole http://calitreview.com/?p=1816 http://calitreview.com/1816/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/277 http://calitreview.com/277#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:17:12 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/2007/10/30/crossing-styx/ http://calitreview.com/277/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/245 http://calitreview.com/245#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:09:51 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/2007/08/01/jeffrey-j-kripal-author-of-esalen/ http://calitreview.com/245/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/201 http://calitreview.com/201#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:09:26 +0000 Leslie Kitchen http://calitreview.com//2007/06/10/the-enlightenment-and-the-intellectual-foundations-of-modern-culture-by-louis-dupre/ http://calitreview.com/201/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/142 http://calitreview.com/142#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:41:22 +0000 Robert C. Cheeks http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/the-morality-of-everyday-life-by-thomas-fleming/ http://calitreview.com/142/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/116 http://calitreview.com/116#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:37:35 +0000 Paul Blairon http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/denial-of-death-by-ernest-becker/ http://calitreview.com/116/feed 7 http://calitreview.com/55 http://calitreview.com/55#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:19:36 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-rebecca-goldstein-author-of-betraying-spinoza/ http://calitreview.com/55/feed 12 http://calitreview.com/52 http://calitreview.com/52#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:05:53 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-biographer-james-connor/ http://calitreview.com/52/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/26 http://calitreview.com/26#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:48:50 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com//essays/stemming-from-%e2%80%a6-nowhere/ http://calitreview.com/26/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/17 http://calitreview.com/17#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:29:46 +0000 Douglas Berger http://calitreview.com//essays/the-death-of-conscience-in-the-onion-field/ http://calitreview.com/17/feed 12