RealClearBooks Week of December 5, 2022 Archives

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Monday, December 5
The Hidden Desire of Tennessee Williams
David Mamet UnHerd
The Philosopher and the Poet
Spencer Klavan Law & Liberty
Quentin Tarantino’s Cinema of Vibes
Sonny Bunch Washington Free Beacon
Bob’s Dylan Act
Ian Penman City Journal
On Joni Mitchell's 'Hejira'
Jenn Pelly Pitchfork
The Meaning of Performative Violence
Ben Sixsmith Washington Examiner
Allie Rowbottom: 'When I Write, I Leave My Body a Little'
Mila Jaroniec The Millions
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
John Pistelli Grand Hotel Abyss
A Phenomenology of Ideology, Part 2
Jonathan N. Badger Idiosocratic
Christine McVie’s Perfect Voice
Jen Chaney Vulture
The Midwestern Century
Hendrik Meijer National Review
Hearts Aglow
David Meir Grossman Tablet
The ‘Suicide’ of the Liberal Arts
Naomi Schaefer Riley WSJ
The New Vocabulary of Beer
Courtney Iseman PUNCH
The Greatest Films of All Time
British Film Institute BFI
The Life and Love Poems of John Donne
James Shapiro NYT


Tuesday, December 6
Are We Entering an Era of #MeToo Reckoning?
Kat Rosenfield Reason
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
Graeme Wood The Atlantic
Joe Biden, Bookstore Poison
Michael Schaeffer Politico
Make American Films Patriotic Again
Brandon J. Weichert Law & Liberty
Never Enough
Kaitlin Phillips Artforum
White Liberalism and Prestige TV
Hilary Plum Cleveland Review of Books
Art Museums and Impermanence
Roger Kimball American Greatness
On Dylan's 'The Philosophy of Modern Song'
Sasha Frere-Jones 4Columns
Lady Chatterley Isn’t Sexy
Nicholas Harris UnHerd
The Best Movies of 2022
Richard Brody The New Yorker
The Best TV Shows of 2022
Alison Herman & Miles Surrey The Ringer
Kirstie Alley Dies at 71
Mike Barnes The Hollywood Reporter
Anti-Hero Worship
Becky Zhang The Point
Patti Smith's Beautiful 'A Book of Days'
Caryn Rose Vulture
Spielberg Like You've Never Seen Him Before
Stephanie Zacharek Time
Bob Dylan's Curious Book Signing Controversy
Alexander Larman The Spectator World
Looted Antiquities Seized from Home of Met Trustee
Claire Voon The Art Newspaper


Wednesday, December 7
Institutions Matter…But So Does Culture
David C. Rose Law & Liberty Exclusive
Cormac McCarthy's Masterpiece
Valerie Stivers Compact
What Elon Musk Doesn’t Know About Free Speech
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker
Sad Girl Manifesto
Grace Byron The Baffler
My Boyfriend, a Writer, Broke up With Me
Isabel Kaplan The Guardian
Why Is Everything So Ugly?
The Editors n+1
On the Way Home
Charles McElwee City Journal
Always Tell the Love Stories
Lily Meyer The Atlantic
Symphony Fantastique
Jay Nordlinger The New Criterion
The Politics of Independence
Ted Conover LitHub
The Sublime Christine McVie
Natalie Adler Gawker
The Rhetoric of Swift (Taylor, not Jonathan)
Robert F. Graboyes Bastiat's Window
Forbidden Notebooks: A Woman’s Right to Write
Jhumpa Lahiri The Paris Review
The Roast Porpoise of Old England
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review
Directors’ 100 Greatest Films of All Time
Various BFI
‘The Crowd’: A Spare and Silent Realism
Tim Page WSJ


Thursday, December 8
Michel Houellebecq’s Sexual Apocalypse
Jacob Siegel UnHerd
Outlaw Sublime
Christian Lorentzen Galerie
The Young and the Restless
Emma Collins The File
Misreading 'Ulysses'
Sally Rooney The Paris Review
Mark Podwal’s Tikkun Olam
Ruth Oratz Tablet
FTX and the Lust for Wealth
Mark Mutz & Richard Gunderman Law & Liberty
Sneakin’ Around
Nicky Smith Splice Today
On Jordan Castro's 'The Novelist'
Kazuo Robinson The Adroit Journal
'George & Tammy' Sings
Jen Chaney Vulture
The 10 Best Films of 2022
David Sims The Atlantic
I’m a Stranger Here Myself
Brian Kaller The American Conservative
The Myth of the Knicks
Zito Madu The Nation
Seeing Stars
Liam Greenwell Return
Rural Sensualist
Jonathan Rosenbaum New Left Review
Kirstie Alley, the Woman Left Out in the Cold
Alexander Larman Spectator World


Friday, December 9
For God and Country
The Editors of Law & Liberty Law & Liberty Exclusive
The Father of All Secrets
Sam Adler-Bell The Baffler
Is He Boyfriend Material?
Meghan Daum The Unspeakable
Jordan Peterson Is Wrong About Anonymity
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
Finally, the End of the Car Dealership?
Jarod Facundo The American Prospect
The Elements of Scientific Style
Étienne Fortier-Dubois Works in Progress
Scorsese’s 'Hugo' Is a Family Film Worth Revisiting
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Putting Tocqueville's Remedies into Practice
Sarah Gustafson Law & Liberty
Cancelling Noise
Helen Roy Return
The End of Popular Cinema
Armond White National Review
A Phenomenology of Ideology, Part 3
Jonathan N. Badger Idiosocratic
The God Question
Pierre Manent & Alain Finkielkraut City Journal
'The Whale' and the Fat Suit
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
The Brilliant Hackwork of P.G. Wodehouse
Dan Brooks Gawker
Tender Horror in 'Bones and All'
J. Oliver Conroy Washington Examiner
Available this week: "No One Left to Come Looking for You" by Sam Lipsyte
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