RealClearBooks Morning Edition
Tuesday, May 21
Donald Miller, Christian Iconoclast - Joshua DuBois, Daily Beast
Blundering Without the Bible - Lars Walker, American Spectator
George Orwell, Meet the Internet - Robert McCrum, The Guardian
First as Tragedy, Then as Cant - Daniel Richter, Wall Street Journal
No E-book for New Stephen King Novel - Jenny Hendrix, Los Angeles Times
When You Finish Your Novel, What Then? - Holly Robinson, Huffington Post
Taking Over for Kurt Vonnegut - Patricia Cohen, New York Times
Ray Bradbury, Living Forever - Todd VanDerWerff, AV Club
Monday, May 20
My Mother's Fanatical Feminism - Rebecca Walker, Daily Mail
The Werewolves Are Back - Bill Tipper, Christian Science Monitor
Donald Rumsfeld's Great Advice - Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast
Scarlett Johansson to Adapt Truman Capote - Ben Child, The Guardian
Roberto Bolano Could Not Attend - Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
The Rich Will Still Go to College - Daniel Luzer, Washington Monthly
Two Heads, Not Better Than One - Tevi Troy, Weekly Standard
Letting the E-reader Go - Josie Leavitt, Publishers Weekly
Kids Books Are Too Wimpy - Mark Judge, RealClearBooks
Someone Could Get Bored - Kevin McFarland, AV Club
Saturday, May 18
How Psychiatry Went Nuts - Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal
Start Reading Superhero Comics - Chris Clow, Huffington Post
English Without all the BS - Peter Hannaford, Washington Times
Chick Lit Is Dead, Long Live Farm Lit - Emily Matchar, The Atlantic
George Weigel, Modern Cassandra - Paul Baumann, The Nation
Ceasefire in Fiction's Genre Wars? - Stuart Kelly, The Guardian
Getting My Hometown Wrong - Noah Berlatsky, Splice Today
A Post-9/11 Werewolf Novel? - Roxane Gay, The Daily Beast
Bluegrass Is Our Only Hope - Joe Lindsley, Campfire Blog
Hell Is Dan Brown - A.N. Wilson, Financial Times
Friday, May 17
Who's Afraid of Christians? - Rayyan Al-Shawaf, CS Monitor
Plimpton! A Life Really Well-Lived - Robert Elisberg, Huffington Post
Humbert Humbert Has No Friends - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
Former Ed Secretary: Don't Go to College! - David DesRosiers, Wash Times
Hollywood's Retroactive Repression - Mark Judge, Acculturated
Poets Make / Small Talk - Michael Robbins, Books & Culture
The Greatness of Chicago - Scott Turow, New York Times
Incredible Hulking Library - Alison Flood, The Guardian
Just Try to Pick Me Up - Jessa Crispin, Bookslut
A Troll's Revenge - Paul Constant, Stranger
Thursday, May 16
I Pity Dan Brown - Clive James, USA Today
Democracy in Nigeria - Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
Henry Ford's Wonderful, Horrible Life - Richard Snow, Daily Beast
A Book for Boys, and Men - William Murchison, Washington Times
E-book Sales Almost Doubled in 2012 - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
Does Trying to Be Happy Make Us Sad? - Adam Grant, Huffington Post
Fifty Shades of Chinese Piracy - Molly Driscoll, Christian Science Monitor
Amazon Pushes the Tax Rulebook - Griffiths & Bowers, The Guardian
The Man in the Shadows - Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Are Oral Histories Any Good? - Jason Heller, AV Club
Wednesday, May 15
Bring on the Daddy Wars - Dave Bry, The New Republic
How a Bill Becomes a Mess - Jonathan Martin, Wall Street Journal
Does Microsoft Really Want Nook? - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
Tamerlan Tsarnaev as Greek Tragedy - Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker
The Best Dan Brown Book Yet - Malcolm Jones, The Daily Beast
Amazon Coins Virtual Currency - Alison Flood, The Guardian
Gatsby's Sad, Immortal Cover - Jimmy Stamp, Smithsonian
Nick Flynn's Movie Life - Caitlin Mackenzie, Books & Culture
Authors Trapped by TMI - Lev Raphael, Huffington Post
Herblock Hated Nixon's Guts - Bill Morris, The Millions
Tuesday, May 14
The Catholic Gatsby - Daniel McInerny, Aleteia
Great Gatsby: Book vs. Movie - Jon Reiner, The Daily Beast
How Operation Bambi Backfired - Rich Danker, RealClearBooks
Searching for Margaret Thatcher - David Owen, New Statesman
Essential Sci-Fi for Understanding the Economy - Charlie Anders, io9
Good Guys, Bad Generals - Andrew Bacevich, American Conservative
What's Worse Than Bullying? Anti-Bullying - Helene Guldberg, Spiked
Pat Conroy, Editor-at-Large - Paige Crutcher, Publishers Weekly
Bookworm in the Blood - Rachael Berkey, Huffington Post
Where We Got Our Dirty Words - Melissa Mohr, Salon
Monday, May 13
Don't Make Fun of Dan Brown - Michael Deacon, The Telegraph
Charlaine Harris Threatened by Fans - Alison Flood, The Guardian
From White Slavery to Bratz Dolls - Debbie Nathan, Reason Online
Mary Tyler Moore Snowjob - Virginia Heffernan, Wall Street Journal
The History of Mel Brooks, Part I - Curt Schleier, Jewish Daily Forward
John Le Carre's Post Cold War Spycraft - Noah Cruickshank, AV Club
Revolutionary Reactionary War? - Scott Martelle, Los Angeles Times
Deng Xiaoping & Thatcher: Kindred Spirits - Michael Kimmage, TNR
Bizarre British Love Triangle - Joseph Charlton, Financial Times
Detroit Is for Lovers - Stacy Parker Le Melle, Huffington Post
Saturday, May 11
Stop Overthinking Obama - Mark Schmitt, Washington Monthly
Abraham Lincoln's Citizenship Test - Allen Guelzo, Books & Culture
No Coups? Thank George Washington - Alan Crawford, Wall St. Journal
Jeremy Scahill, Partisan for Terror - Bruce Bawer, Weekly Standard
Easy Rawlins, Back From the Dead - David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
Idiot's Guide to Baseball Writing - Luke Epplin, The Daily Beast
FDR's Dictatorial Flirtations - Duncan Kelly, Financial Times
Comics Are Nao Growing Up - Seth Hahne, Good OK Bad
Nietzsche Saw Hayek Coming - Corey Robin, The Nation
A Ratt's Tale - Christian Josi, Huffington Post