RealClearBooks Week of September 26, 2022 Archives

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Monday, September 26
The Dark Side of Chesterton
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
Critics and Fans Have Never Disagreed More About Movies
Lucas Shaw Bloomberg
Why We Love Norm Macdonald
Luther Ray Abel National Review
There Is No Such Thing as A.I. Art
Walter Kirn Common Sense
What Happens When Hollywood Comes to Town?
Jan Pytalski The Daily Yonder
No Stone Unturned
Russ Smith The Spectator World
The Rise and Fall of the Creative Class
Wessie du Toit The Pathos of Things
The Family Tragedy
John G. Grove Law & Liberty
Inside the Struggle to Reinvent ‘SNL’
Michael Kaplan & Sara Nathan New York Post
'Love in the Afternoon' at 50
Casey Chalk The American Conservative
The Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books
Leslie Jamison The New Yorker
The Recluse Who Confronted the Mystery of the Universe
Deborah Blum NYT
Sorry, But 'Avatar' Still Rules
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
Remarkably Dour Proceedings
Nic Rowan The Lamp
Stay True
David O'Neill 4Columns
'American Gigolo' Is No Longer Sexy
Ann Manov UnHerd
Joyce Carol Oates’s Enigmatic Pain
Jonathan Clarke City Journal
Hilary Mantel, Prizewinning ‘Wolf Hall’ Author, Dies at 70
Sarah Ball WSJ
Oscar-Winner Louise Fletcher Dies at 88
Mike Barnes The Hollywood Reporter
The Dreaming Kind
David Meir Grossman Tablet Magazine


Tuesday, September 27
From Subjects to Citizens, and Back
John Fonte Claremont Review of Books
No One Wants a More Sensitive James Bond
Ben Domenech The Spectator World
The Case of the Disputed Lucian Freud
Sam Knight The New Yorker
Michael Mann Returns to the Scene of the Crime
Adam Nayman The Nation
Oh, the Humanities!
David Lewis Schaefer Washington Free Beacon
A Jeremiad on Western Self-Hatred
David Goldman Law & Liberty
What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago
Robert K. Elder NYT
Faulkner’s Review of 'The Old Man and the Sea'
William Faulkner Book Marks
Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’: An Opera That Surprises
Emma Schneider WSJ
Pharoah Sanders Found His Voice in New York City
Marcus J. Moore Vulture
Stephen A. Smith Has Always Been Stephen A. Smith
Jack Holmes Esquire
The Twilight of the Disney Princess
Mary Harrington UnHerd
The Missed Opportunity of 'The Woman King'
Sumantra Maitra The National Interest
Red Love, For All
Erin Maglaque New Statesman
A Novel With a Secret at Its Center
Sarah Chihaya The Atlantic
An Amorphous and Arsonous Body
Joshua Cohen Astra Magazine
Bertolt Brecht, Parables for the Theater
John Pistelli Grand Hotel Abyss
Translating the Immigrant Experience Into Fiction
Ruth Madievsky Catapult
A Japanese Officer’s Infinity War
Rob Doyle The Guardian
On Edward Lipman and a Family Piano
Joshua Katz The New Criterion


Wednesday, September 28
The Permanence of Progressive Conservatism
F.H. Buckley Law & Liberty
The Sun Goeth Down
Christopher Urban The Baffler
The Enduring Legacy of Pearl Jam's 'Jeremy'
Steven Hyden The Ringer
Fruits of Sex
Samuel Negus The Critic
Conservatism Remodeled
Samuel Goldman Modern Age
Who Is Tracy Flick Now?
Elise Hannum The Atlantic
How She Sees Herself
Mariah Kreutter Astra Magazine
American Gigolo Is No Longer Sexy
Ann Manov UnHerd
Read This, Not That
Kimberly Hermann & Braden Boucek The American Mind
Why Adam Smith Said ‘Virtue Is More to Be Feared Than Vice’
Richard Fulmer FEE
Latest Anthony Bourdain Biography Already Controversial
Ali Francis Bon Appétit
Who Cares about James Bond’s ‘Inner Life’?
Madeleine Kearns National Review
Punk Rock Is Dead, Killed by the CDC
Seth Smith Brownstone Institute
‘The Harvest of War’ Review
James Romm WSJ
The Bravery and Brilliance of Hilary Mantel
Ella Whelan spiked
'The Anarchists': A Study in the Decadence of Autonomy
David L. Bahnsen Acton
The Best Bars in Sitcom History
Kirk Miller InsideHook
Russell Brand Scorches YouTube Misinformation
Christian Toto Hollywood in Toto


Thursday, September 29
Remembering a Singular Prose Stylist
Brian Dillon The Yale Review
The Found Poems of Goliarda Sapienza
Chiara Barzini LitHub
A Change of Hart?
Phil Christman Commonweal
We Should Have Rebuilt the Twin Towers
Jason Garshfield The American Conservative
The Mixed Metaphor
Andrea Long Chu Vulture
Body in Trance
Emina Melonic American Greatness
This Is the Promised Land
David Sugarman The Scroll
Kate Berlant's Broken Mirror
Alexandra Schwartz The New Yorker
'Solito' Is a Personal Story of Immigration
Gabino Iglesias NPR
Sidney Poitier Is Back on the Big Screen
Ella Feldman Smithsonian Magazine
Godard Is Dead. Is Cinema?
Titus Techera Acton Institute PowerBlog
The Key to Understanding Trump? Start With Queens.
Joe Klein NY Times
Don’t Take the Bait
Liberal Guy The American Mind
‘The Song of Bernadette’ Is Headed to Broadway
Patricia Lawler Kenet America
Your Personality Is Your Taste in Music
Bonnie Stiernberg InsideHook
‘Blonde’ Review: More Marilyn Mythologizing
John Anderson WSJ
'Bad Words' Paved Jason Bateman's Path to 'Ozark'
Christian Toto Hollywood in Toto
28 Movies Worth Checking Out This Fall
Keith Phipps GQ


Friday, September 30
The War that Made the Roman Empire
Barry Strauss Antigone
The Making of Nikole Hannah-Jones
Marc Weitzmann Tablet
Are These High School Classics on the Way Out?
Andrew Newman The Conversation
An Age of Prudence
Mark Ford The New York Review of Books
The Mysteries of Mondrian
Peter Schjeldahl The New Yorker
God Save the Sex Pistols
Dominic Green Washington Examiner
The Last, Painful Days of Anthony Bourdain
Kim Severson New York Times
Hollywood Learned All the Wrong Lessons From 'Avatar'
David Sims The Atlantic
Who Owns the Internet?
Evan Malmgren The Nation
The Modern Age in Arms
David Pryce-Jones The New Criterion
Reality Bytes
Jack Moody Return
‘The Last Out’ Review: Cubans Pitching to Get In
John Anderson WSJ
The Outsourcing of the Self
Matthew Gasda Compact
But Do I Need It?
Phoebe Maltz Bovy Freddie deBoer
Bob Dylan, the Song an Dance Man
Anne Margaret Daniel The Spectator World
The Standup Act Who Turned to the Priesthood
Lamorna Ash The Guardian
Fairy Tale
Darryl Pinckney The Paris Review
Homesickness
Jackie Thomas-Kennedy Harvard Review
The Poet Pundit
Clio Chang Vulture
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