Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Games
Video Game Review: Dante’s Inferno
August 19, 2026Dante’s Inferno gets no points whatsoever for originality, but it’s such an entertaining, suspenseful and gorgeously...
Movies
Julia’s Anti-Valentine’s Movies
August 19, 2026Ah, Valentine’s Day. In elementary school, we were forced to address valentines to everyone in class...
Horror
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
August 18, 2026Novelist Lee Harwell is having breakfast at his favorite Chicago diner when a hostile homeless guy...
Movies
William Bibbiani’s Top Three Unconventional Romances for Valentine’s Day
August 18, 2026Or maybe you’re just like me, single on the most romantic night of the year, drowning...
Movies
Many Criterion DVDs Going Out of Print: A Lamentation
August 18, 2026Criterion, you are the Pixar of DVD distributors. Every film you release is guaranteed to be...
Movies
A CLR EXCLUSIVE Interview… with CLR Film Critic Julia Rhodes!
August 18, 2026Hello everybody, and welcome to the Fourth Wall, in which we California Literary Review film critics...
Movies
William Bibbiani interviews writer/producer/director Mick Garris!
August 17, 2026Today, as you may have noticed, is a day of many, many interviews. In addition to...
Movies
How to fake your way out of seeing this year’s Oscar nominees!
August 17, 2026No, you don’t have to watch The Blind Side. I’ve got your back. This year, for...
Movies
Welcome to The Fourth Wall, a New CLR Movie Blog
August 17, 2026We're excited about our first blog, The Fourth Wall which will provide a less formal and...
Fiction Reviews
The Last Reader by David Toscana
August 17, 2026The stream-of-consciousness style and lack of quotation marks seen here is indicative of the entire novel....
Movies
Introducing…William Bibbiani!
August 16, 2026While Snowmageddon, Part One raged around us here on the east coast, the amazing and talented...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dark Void
August 16, 2026The bad guys are alien robot Nazis (effectively combining every faceless antagonist in videogame history), Will...
Movies
Movie Review: Legion
August 16, 2026According to the script, God has lost faith in humanity, ostensibly because he grew “tired of...
Movies
Movie Review: From Paris With Love
August 16, 2026Structural difficulties, failed attempts at levity and below-par action sequences would be bad enough, but sadly...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
August 16, 2026Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
Fiction Reviews
Fables: The Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
August 15, 2026But without a doubt, it’s the series that he began seven years ago, Fables, that has...
Military
Small Wars by Sadie Jones
August 15, 2026The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable...
Art
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
August 15, 2026Oliver won’t socialize. He won’t even speak. He simply spends his days wrapped in his obsession,...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Bayonetta
August 15, 2026She also wears glasses, which may pass for originality these days but is thematically appropriate because...
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...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
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...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
History
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 & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Performing Arts
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...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
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