CORNEL BONCA

  • Historians Misbehaving Wonderfully - December 15, 2005
    UCI prof Jon Wiener examines his own kind
    Books
  • Tempered Rage against the Machine - December 1, 2005
    George Saunders’ Phil is a wickedly funny parable
    Books
  • Lame Fulminations - November 17, 2005
    Vonneguts latest is lightweight, gaseous stuff
    Books
  • Grief Works - November 10, 2005
    Joan Didions Magical memoir on death
    Books
  • Gratitude for Being - October 27, 2005
    Live Reviews
  • Lets Go Crazy Broadway-Style - October 13, 2005
    Evita is totally extreme and in-my-face. But youd like it
    Theater
  • Smart But Narrow-Minded - October 6, 2005
    Dumb Show has little to say
    Theater
  • The Risk Taker - October 6, 2005
    Aimee Bender: A willful creature
    Books
  • The Mirror Crackd - September 22, 2005
    Lunar Park fails to reflect a believable Bret Easton Ellis story
    Books
  • To Motherhood - September 1, 2005
    Still-demanding Caucasian Chalk Circle is a brave choice for SCR
    Theater
  • Waxing Roth - August 25, 2005
    The Library of America takes a shine to the author of Portnoys Complaint
    Books
  • Give em Enough Rope - August 18, 2005
    Laramie explains itself
    Theater
  • The Secret Lives of Couples - August 11, 2005
    Dinner With Friends probes beneath marriages surface
    Theater
  • Doing It to Death - August 11, 2005
    Tom Petty and Jackson Browne: Burned out or rusted?
    Music
  • The Little Pages That Could - August 4, 2005
    Revived Orange Coast Review is a shot in the arm to the local lit scene
    Arts
  • A Drawn-out, Unbelievable Hours - July 28, 2005
    Michael Cunninghams Specimen Days is uneven, at times far-fetched
    Books
  • On the Way Down - July 21, 2005
    Hornbys latest novel finds him straining for significance
    Books
  • Delirious - July 21, 2005
    Like a Marx Brothers movie, this Hamlet relieves the burdens of the saddest heart
    Theater
  • Free Willy - July 7, 2005
    Long Beach Shakespeare in the Park
    Theater
  • The Plays the Thing - June 30, 2005
    Rude Guerrilla is no match for Stoppard
    Theater
  • Miller Time - June 2, 2005
    A View From the Bridge
    Theater
  • WEB EXCLUSIVE!Every Mothers Son - May 26, 2005
    Sex, salvation and sacrifice on Springsteens Devils & Dust
    Music
  • Him with His Books - May 19, 2005
    Summer Guide
  • Avert Your Eyes - April 14, 2005
    Greenbergs Naked Girl is one fugly Neil Simon photocopy
    Theater
  • He Learned It By Watching Pulp Fiction - March 17, 2005
    Noah Haidle is 26 and a genius of new theaterand his newest production already has the old folks stomping out of SCR
    Theater
  • The Religious and the Secular Could Be Friends - March 10, 2005
    If they read Marilynne Robinsons Gilead
    Books
  • Strange, Terrible Sagas - February 24, 2005
    Remembering Hunter S. Thompson and Arthur Miller
    News
  • Get Sick, Get Well. Hang Around an Inkwell - February 17, 2005
    Dylans Volume 1 saves the best for Volume 2
    Books
  • Making the Breast of a Bad Situation - February 3, 2005
    Phillips Roths ode to mammaries still titillates
    Books
  • Are You Trying to Seduce Me, Ms. Sontag and Ms. Kael? - January 27, 2005
    How two women authors molded two male writers they never knew
    Books
  • On a Clear Day - January 13, 2005
    From Christopher Shinns On the Mountain, Sophocles wavers in the distance
    Theater
  • Imagining Orange County - January 6, 2005
    Its not the O.C., not Disneyland, not Newport. Eight writers imagine the real place you call home
    Features
  • Beautifully Familiar - January 6, 2005
    36 Views is Authentic Yet Forged

    Theater
  • Inside Final Edition - January 6, 2005
    Wallace Shawns new Sept. 11 compendium illuminates, educates
    Arts
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