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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
November 5, 2026The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...
Blog-Dance
A Gala Celebration with San Francisco Ballet
November 4, 2026As usual for these events, Wednesday night’s audience came in their finest duds — men in...
Dance
And There’s Prize Money!
November 4, 2026News flash — Dance makers need money! Oh, the big companies are on all the corporate...
Movies
Movie Review: The Rite
November 4, 2026The Rite is remarkably dull where its most obvious predecessor, The Exorcist, was sharp as a...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dead Space 2
November 4, 2026For many years, Electronic Arts was seen by most as the “evil empire” of the video...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Movies
Movie Review: The Mechanic
November 3, 2026Jason Statham, the icy British actor famous for jacked-up action romps including The Transporter and Crank,...
Photography
Badlands and Lost Edens: The Photography of Robert Adams
November 3, 2026Adams recorded the ever-expanding suburban sprawl of the 1960s and 1970s, and his haunting, classically composed...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
November 3, 2026Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
Movies
Movie Review: The Way Back
November 3, 2026The really good character work – and make no mistake, this is a good cast –...
Video Games
The Metro City Reform Committee: An Inaugural Address
November 3, 2026I’m setting up a little blog here at the California Literary Review. It’s going to ostensibly...
Movies
Movie Review: No Strings Attached
November 2, 2026Studios are beginning to cater to the “hookup culture” people are wringing their hands about. The...
Psychology
The Weekly Listicle: Ballad Of The Soldier
November 2, 2026This weekend, Peter Weir graces us with The Way Back, a tale of daring escape by...
Theatre
Welcome to Alone Together, CLR’s New Theater Blog
November 2, 2026Alone Together will explore emerging trends in theater and what they tell us about who we...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes
November 2, 2026A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...
Dance
Introducing Dance Vine, A New CLR Blog
November 2, 2026We are pleased to announce our new blog, Dance Vine. CLR dance critics Hanna Oldsman and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Big Policeman by J. North Conway
November 1, 2026J. North Conway's new account of the law enforcement career of Thomas Byrnes, The Big Policeman,...
Movies
Movie Review: Season of the Witch
November 1, 2026There are many different ways to go when making a film about knights, witches, pestilence, the...
Movies
A Voice In The Night Tells Dan Fields To Shut Up (Although He Does Have A Point)
October 31, 2026You got me, Dan. I didn’t see Let Me In this year. But just for the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Not Your Average Romcoms!
October 31, 2026We like our romcoms quirky. None of this, please. Romantic comedy in the last few decades...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Art & Design
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Italy
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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