From that first tingling in bed to calling 911 was an hour and a half. Sudden onset, they call it.
Disability
Sudden Onset
by Allen Rucker
December 7th, 2019
This Sweet Nothing Reimagines Nijinsky’s Afternoon of a Faun
by Toba Singer
February 22nd, 2012
Her duet with Giles, in which both dancers use stilts to place themselves on the same locus, invites us to meet a pair of post-Nijinsky characters, two women who move like languid praying mantises, fluid, deliberate, yet delicate, as they explore a sensuality between women, untested by the choreographers of Nijinsky’s time.
The Weekly Listicle: Shameless Oscar Bait
by Dan Fields
January 20th, 2012
If Oscar bait works on you, then you’ll treasure the film all your life and hate anyone who speaks a word against it. If not, you will enjoy bitter self-satisfaction every chance you have to snipe at it.
Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek
by Ryan Van Cleave
November 11th, 2009
He explains it in his journals as “Whatever it is that a person needs or wants, they understand why that matters, and that is the unfolding of their Heartsong . . . And as we learn in almost every religion or philosophy of goodness, it is in giving that we receive. In sharing our Heartsong with others, it goes out into the world, and somehow, circles back to us.”
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
by Elinor Teele
June 10th, 2009
“I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as quality work. I don’t think of legacies or what people think. They are bold moves because I’ve found I can get the most attention with doing things that people don’t expect of me. It’s just the way it is.”
Driftless by David Rhodes
by John Holt
November 11th, 2008
In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he stopped writing after a paralyzing motorcycle crash in 1977 he was considered one of this country’s finest writers.
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
by Jascha Kessler
October 7th, 2008
Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent cacchination encountered everywhere in Beckett’s writing — which characterizes our present lot, with its extended, often forcibly prolonged, old age. Lodge’s transparent prose plays out in a sophisticated informal, everyday voice; his is artful writing that succeeds in that most difficult literary genre, Comedy.
Jill Bolte Taylor’s Right Brain Wants to Tell Us Something
by Paul Comstock
July 2nd, 2008
“I had a rare congenital malformation in the blood vessels of my left hemisphere and at the age of 37 the malformation (AVM) blew and resulted in a major hemorrhage in the left half of my brain. On the morning of the stroke, I could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of my life. I describe myself as an infant in a woman’s body.”
Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
by Ed Voves
June 16th, 2008
Art critics may speculate about the influences on Kahlo’s style or her place in modern art. In the end, these reflections, however valid some of the details may be, diminish Kahlo’s achievement. The truth of Frida Kahlo’s life is startlingly simple. She recorded the realty of her life without flinching, creating for herself a world that conformed to her insights and her experience. And in the process, Frida Kahlo’s art became Frida Kahlo’s life.
Get The Latest California Literary Review Updates Delivered Free To Your Inbox!
Powered by FeedBlitz
Popular Post:
Trending:
Archives by Subject:
- Categories
- After Image
- Art & Design
- Blog-Dance
- Blog-Music
- Blog-Theater
- Blog-Video Games
- Dance
- Fashion
- Fiction Reviews
- Games
- Movies & TV
- Music
- Non-Fiction Reviews
- Performing Arts
- The Fourth Wall
- Theatre
- Topics
- 100 Greatest Gangster Films
- Africa
- African American
- Agriculture
- Animals
- Anthropology
- Archeology
- Architecture
- Art
- Asian American
- Australia
- Balkans
- Belgium
- Best Books
- Best Movies
- Biography
- Books
- Business
- Canada
- Caribbean
- Children's Literature
- China
- Classics
- Crime Fiction
- Death
- Denmark
- Design
- Disability
- Economics
- Education
- Egypt
- Environment
- Espionage
- Fashion-Men
- Fashion-Street
- Fashion-Women
- Food
- France
- Gay and Lesbian
- Germany
- Graphic Novels
- Great Britain
- Greece
- Hip Hop
- Hispanic American
- Historical Fiction
- History
- Horror
- Humor
- India
- Iran
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Linguistics
- Literary Themes
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Mexico
- Military
- Movies
- Music Subcategory
- Mystery
- Mythology
- Native American
- Nature
- Netherlands
- Opera
- Pakistan
- Philosophy
- Phobias
- Photography
- Poetry
- Politics
- Psychology
- Religion
- Russia
- Satire
- Saudi Arabia
- Science
- Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Sex
- Short Stories
- Sociology
- Southeast Asia
- Spain
- Sports
- Television
- Theatre Subcategory
- Thrillers
- Travel
- True Crime
- Turkey
- Video Games
- Vietnam
- Westerns
- Writers