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Movie Review: The Mechanic
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The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
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Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
July 11, 2025Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
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Movie Review: The Way Back
July 11, 2025The really good character work – and make no mistake, this is a good cast –...
Art
Badlands and Lost Edens: The Photography of Robert Adams
July 10, 2025Adams recorded the ever-expanding suburban sprawl of the 1960s and 1970s, and his haunting, classically composed...
Movies
Movie Review: No Strings Attached
July 10, 2025Studios are beginning to cater to the “hookup culture” people are wringing their hands about. The...
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The Metro City Reform Committee: An Inaugural Address
July 10, 2025I’m setting up a little blog here at the California Literary Review. It’s going to ostensibly...
Theatre
Welcome to Alone Together, CLR’s New Theater Blog
July 10, 2025Alone 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
July 10, 2025A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...
History
The Weekly Listicle: Ballad Of The Soldier
July 9, 2025This weekend, Peter Weir graces us with The Way Back, a tale of daring escape by...
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Book Review: The Big Policeman by J. North Conway
July 9, 2025J. North Conway's new account of the law enforcement career of Thomas Byrnes, The Big Policeman,...
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Introducing Dance Vine, A New CLR Blog
July 9, 2025We are pleased to announce our new blog, Dance Vine. CLR dance critics Hanna Oldsman and...
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A Voice In The Night Tells Dan Fields To Shut Up (Although He Does Have A Point)
July 9, 2025You got me, Dan. I didn’t see Let Me In this year. But just for the...
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The Weekly Listicle: Not Your Average Romcoms!
July 8, 2025We like our romcoms quirky. None of this, please. Romantic comedy in the last few decades...
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Movie Review: Season of the Witch
July 8, 2025There are many different ways to go when making a film about knights, witches, pestilence, the...
Movies
“Let Me In!” Cries A Voice In The Night
July 8, 2025A certain writer for the California Literary Review has thoughtfully distilled a whole year of reviews,...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Sherlockian< by Graham Moore
July 8, 2025There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Oscar Buzz 2011 Rages On!!
July 6, 2025We here at The Fourth Wall are taking another look out our favorite film work from...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
July 6, 2025If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...
Television
Credit Where Credit’s Due: “Dexter” Main Titles
July 6, 2025Welcome to The Fourth Wall’s newest blog series, Credit Where Credit’s Due, which will focus on...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
History
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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Einstein in Japan
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