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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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Anthropology
Light of the Moon by Luane Rice
December 13, 2025Femi-lit doesn’t make as many headlines as its younger sister, but it shares certain familial traits....
Anthropology
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December 13, 2025Readers can now receive our latest postings through our new Twitter account, calitreview.
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The Great Risk Shift – by Jacob S. Hacker
December 13, 2025After winning reelection in 2004, President George W. Bush made restructuring Social Security his top domestic...
Archeology
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
December 12, 2025I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
Anthropology
Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
December 12, 2025Jaynes, a psychologist who taught at Princeton up until his death in 1997, showed how ancient...
Fiction Reviews
Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales – by by James Ellroy
December 12, 2025Anyone who reads “Balls to the Wall” will gain a true, bloody taste for a slice...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
December 12, 2025David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Eagle Dreams – Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia – by Steve Bodio
December 12, 2025The image of a fierce Mongol horseman riding the harsh plains of his native land with...
Fiction Reviews
Down Here – by Andrew Vachss
December 11, 2025The popularity of this self-absorbed, naïve dreck should astound me. It doesn’t considering the current woeful...
Fiction Reviews
Dancing With Einstein by Kate Wenner
December 11, 2025Combining fact with fiction, Kate Wenner’s “Dancing with Einstein” is a carefully crafted novel that manages...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
December 10, 2025You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Devil In The Details – by Jennifer Traig
December 10, 2025All parents of adolescents despair of them, particularly those with teenage daughters. Endless hours on the...
Death
Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
December 10, 2025According to Becker, man is torn between his symbolic, self-conscious awareness and his animal nature. The...
Fiction Reviews
The Collector by John Fowles
December 10, 2025Fowles was a writer who always seemed content to remain in the shadows, on the edge...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Collapse: How Nations Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
December 10, 2025By the time the first Europeans visited Easter in 1722, the Island was nearly uninhabited, virtually...
Fiction Reviews
Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels by Giorgio Manganelli
December 9, 2025Americans in this therapy-mad epoch tend to take, rather mistake, an “experience” for that fateful “event.”...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, Judith E. Moores
December 9, 2025How do we understand the natural forces that literally shape our world? How, over time have...
Non-Fiction Reviews
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
December 9, 2025Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Campus Sexpot by David Carkeet
December 9, 2025Naturally, the publishing of this book complete with its intrigue, loose morals, and the real citizens’...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
December 8, 2025No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
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House Recap: ‘Body and Soul’ (Season 8, Episode 18)
November 22, 2025This was the fifth-to-last episode, by my count. Tonight we had nightmare visions, erotic dreams, an...
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Openings (Season 2, Episode 6)
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The Killing Recap: Numb (Season 2, Episode 3)
November 15, 2025A recap/review of The Killing- Numb (Season 2, Episode 3)
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The Killing Recap: Ogi Jun (Season 2, Episode 4)
November 18, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Ogi Jun (Season 2, Episode 4)
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House Recap: ‘Blowing the Whistle’ (Season 8, Episode 15)
November 14, 2025Anyway, we open at the airport, where a young military family – mom, kid, dad covered...
Non-Fiction Reviews
False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
November 29, 2025"The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the...
Art & Design
Architecture and Modernism
November 25, 2025For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency –...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Ghosts of the Past (Season 2, Episode 5)
November 21, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Ghosts of the Past (Season 2, Episode 5)
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Reflections + My Lucky Day (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2)
November 14, 2025A recap/review of The Killing- Reflections and My Lucky Day (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2)
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘We Need the Eggs’ (Season 8, Episode 17)
November 19, 2025I don’t know if others will agree, but I really, really liked this one. Funny, fast-paced,...
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