RealClearBooks Week of October 31, 2022 Archives

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Monday, October 31
A Supreme Fiction
Alice Gribbin Notes of an Aesthete
Jerry Lee Lewis’s Life of Rock and Roll and Disrepute
Tom Zito The New Yorker
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger
John Pistelli Grand Hotel Abyss
Poe's Mystifying Novel
Carlos Acevedo City Journal
Howard Stern and Boomer Decline
Ben Sixsmith The Zone
America the Friendless
Adam M. Carrington Law & Liberty
Circle Pit
Chris R. Morgan Defeatists Unanimous
Walking with Nietzsche
Riva-Melissa Tez IM—1776
Heritage: Quasi-Religion or Comfort Blanket?
Wessie du Toit The Pathos of Things
The Year of the Femcel
Mary Gaitskill UnHerd
You Probably Bought That Baseball Card From Rick Probstein
Armin Rosen Tablet
Read in One Sitting
Adam Fleming Petty Commonweal
'Cure' Still Haunts
Adam Nayman Gawker
The Manchurian Candidate at 60
Jesse Hassenger The Guardian
Halloween Movies: Still Scary After All These Years
David Mermelstein WSJ
Ryan Murphy Is Having a Very Happy Halloween
Maureen Dowd New York Times
'Think Outside Your Tribe' Month
Carl Cannon & David DesRosiers RealClearFoundation


Tuesday, November 1
The General and Mrs. Hemingway
Martin Dugard RealClearBooks
Is the Shitty Media Man Innocent?
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Bob Dylan Reveals Himself Through 66 Songs
David Hajdu The Atlantic
Elon Musk Has Taken Twitter: Day Zero
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Common Sense to the Rescue
Robert Curry American Greatness
A Low but Solid Grounding for Religious Liberty
Richard M. Reinsch II Law & Liberty
My Pinup
Blair McClendon 4Columns
Quentin Tarantino Lists Seven "Perfect" Movies
JJ Nattrass NME
Elon’s Basilisk
James Poulos Return
Yoko Tawada’s Enchanted World
Reed McConnell The Baffler
Andrew Wylie: ‘Amazon Is Like ISIS; It Takes No Prisoners’
Guillermo Altares El Pais
Jerry Lee Lewis: The Wall Street Journal Interview
Marc Myers WSJ
Publishing Staff Demand Axing of Barrett Book
Cockburn The Spectator World
Scruton’s Last Heresy
Henry George The Critic Magazine
Dances With Wolverines
Philip Caldwell Washington Free Beacon
“Thank You, and Goodbye”
Alan Siegel The Ringer


Wednesday, November 2
The Year of the Auteur Novel
Hanson O’Haver The Drift
The Cruelty of a Mental Illness as Meme
Freddie deBoer Freddie deBoer
The Nightmare of the Soul
Spencer Klavan Law & Liberty
Why the Novel Matters
Karl Ove Knausgaard New Statesman
A Ritual for Mystery
Jared Marcel Pollen The Yale Review
Busting Ghosts with West Virginia’s Ghosts Hunters
Zachary Emmanuel Countere
'Sleepy Hollow' Is a Tale of the Founding
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Tarantino Meets Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis and Quentin Tarantino UnHerd
Julie Powell, Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49
Kim Severson & Julia Moskin NYT
Religious Liberty and Natural-Rights Constitutionalism
Peter Berkowitz RCPolitics
T.S. Eliot’s Descent Into ‘The Waste Land’
Jeffrey Meyers WSJ
Judge Blocks PenguinRandomHouseSimon&Schuster Merger
Shawna Chen Axios
Mondrian Work Was Hung Upside-Down for 75 Years
Daniel Cassady ARTNews
Rihanna’s Return to Music Is a Careful Balancing Act
Craig Jenkins Vulture
Found: Five Boxes of New Hegel
Justin Weinberg Daily Nous
A Tour of London's Greek Temples
Edmund Stewart Antigone
The Case of the Upside Down Mondrian
Julian Spalding Institute of Art and Ideas
Depraved Activism
Casey Chalk The American Conservative


Thursday, November 3
Free Bird: On Elon Musk and Twitter
Walter Kirn Common Sense
Kanye West and Celebrity
Katherine Dee The Critic
What Christopher Lasch Got Wrong
Blake Smith UnHerd
The Artist Who Warned Us About Meme Culture
Kelly Crow WSJ
A Lament for the Lost University
Theodore Dalrymple Law & Liberty
Chasing Bolaño’s Ghost
Jim Ruland Message from the Underworld
How Geniuses Used to be Raised
Erik Hoel The Intrinsic Perspective
Cormac McCarthy’s "The Passenger" and "Stella Maris"
Andrew Ervin Brooklyn Rail
Does Psychiatry Work?
Bertie Bregman Commentary Magazine
The Poetry of Autumn
James Matthew Wilson First Things
Edith Wharton’s Present Tense
Sarah Blackwood The Paris Review
The Joan Didion Estate Sale
Anna Kodé New York Times
Lost Rubens Painting of Salome Could Exceed £31m
Nadia Khomami The Guardian
Trump Was the Greatest for Israel and American Jews
Morton A. Klein Newsweek
Helpless Human Puppets
Suzi Feay The Spectator World
Hilaire Belloc's "The Four Men"
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
A Rapper Who Spoke Quietly and Had a Big Impact
Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic


Friday, November 4
Brood Meridian
Justin Taylor Bookforum
A Great Illiberal American
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
On Hope and Holy Fools
Tara Isabella Burton The Hedgehog Review
A Literary Master of Wine
Henry Jeffreys The Critic Magazine
Hollow City
Jackson Arn The Baffler
Against Character Vapor
Brandon Taylor Sweater Weather
Vicious Cycle
Emmalea Russo Return
Stamina
Carl Phillips The Sewanee Review
Does Leo Strauss Choose Jerusalem or Athens?
David Gordon Modern Age
A Surreal Satire to Feast On
Peter Cowie WSJ
Inside the World of Louise Bourgeois
Claire-Louise Bennett Harper’s Magazine
Resurrecting John Keats
Paul Krause University Bookman
A Different Way of Being Dutch
Emma Rault Astra Magazine
The Dreariness of Book Club Discussions
Naomi Kanakia Los Angeles Review of Books
Eminem Found Himself in “Lose Yourself"
Jake Kring-Schreifels The Ringer
Available this week: "Cinema Speculation" by Quentin Tarantino
Podcast: Not Even Mad by The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum
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