RealClearBooks Week of December 19, 2022 Archives

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Monday, December 19
Beauty Has Become Our Enemy
David Samuels UnHerd
The Legacy of Johnny Paycheck and David Berman
Rebecca Bengal Oxford American
Breaking Out of the Walled Garden of Literature
Mark Clemens The Bulwark
Unloving Cinema's Past
Armin Rosen Washington Examiner
The Witches of Springfield
Katrina Gulliver Law & Liberty
The Fate of the Western’s World
Christopher J. Scalia Washington Free Beacon
The Lionel Messi Guide to Living
Franklin Foer The Atlantic
Stark Confines
Phoebe Chen The Nation
Lessons from the Musking of Twitter
Sumantra Maitra The American Conservative
Greil Marcus’ Back Pages
John Kidwell Splice Today
Angelo Badalamenti Remembered
A.D. Amorosi Variety
Lydia Tár, Metrosexual Metronome
Emmalea Russo Return
‘Adam Smith’s America’ Review: Wealth of a Nation
Barton Swaim WSJ
Rebuilding the Classics
Solveig Lucia Gold City Journal
A (Hopefully Premature) Obituary for Bookforum
David L. Ulin Los Angeles Times
The Archaeological Discovery of the Century?
Ben Munster The Art Newspaper
‘Like Hell’: Henry Moore's Wartime Coalminers
Harriet Sherwood The Guardian


Tuesday, December 20
The Takeover
Russell Jacoby Tablet
Great, Beautiful, Terrifying: On Cormac McCarthy
Joy Williams Harper's
The Secret Postmodern Radicalism of Francis Fukuyama
Blake Smith Foreign Policy
Through the Great Beauty
Samuel Finlay IM—1776
On Giancarlo DiTrapano
Richard Owain Roberts Will Say More Later After My Run.
Social Media vs. Freedom
James M. Patterson Law & Liberty
How a Writer Deals with Baby Brain
Autumn Christian The Teach Robots Love Newsletter
Review: ‘Harry & Meghan’
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
Love Letter to America: The Photography of Robert Adams
Rachel Tanzi Created
The King of Cups
Tara K. Menon The Point
'Limitless' Is the Strangest Thing on TV This Year
Phillip Maciak Gawker
Michael Haneke’s Still-Shocking Early Films
David Mermelstein WSJ
How a Nepo Baby Is Born
Nate Jones Vulture
Bookforum Is Closing
Kate Dwyer & Elizabeth A. Harris New York Times
The Best Shots of 2022
Adam Nayman The Ringer


Wednesday, December 21
Aesthetics Over Activism
Emma Collins RealClearBooks
Fables of Assimilation
Marco Roth Tablet
'Bookforum' and a Bleak Year for Literary Magazines
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
Clare Coffey The Bulwark
Thirst Traps
Jon Stokes Return
Grace and Serendipity
Joshua T. Katz First Things
Chupacabras in Miami
Rob Goyanes Bookleggers
C.S. Lewis: How ‘Medieval’ Was He?
Lee Oser Acton Institute
What Is Bad Art?
Thomas Chatterton Williams Art Basel
The ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Isn’t Just a Song. It’s a Portal.
James Poniewozik NYT
An Interview with Casey Michel
Luke Goldstein Cleveland Review of Books
The Super 8 Years
Melissa Anderson 4Columns
The Battleground of Grammar
Frederic Halper O’Brien National Review
It's My Damaged Rembrandt
Sarah Cascone Artnet News
‘Chekhov Becomes Chekhov’ Review: The Great Listener
Christoph Irmscher WSJ


Thursday, December 22
Take Some of That With You When You Go
Farahn Morgan RealClearBooks
I Was There to Inflict Death
Christian Lorentzen London Review of Books
Specialists Without Spirit
Trevor Quirk The Point
The Joy of Conrad
Ben Sixsmith IM—1776
Winning Like a Roman
Steele Brand Law & Liberty
Who Will Rule Twitter Next?
Aris Roussinos UnHerd
A Scary Good Year
Alan Siegel The Ringer
A Witching Hour with Sarah Ruhl
Helen Shaw The New Yorker
The Land of Milk and Horny
Dana Kessler Tablet
Small Yet Mighty
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2022
Multiple authors The Atlantic
The Truth About 'Book Banning'
David Lewis Schaefer AMAC
Defining Webster
Carl Paulus Washington Examiner
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: 60 Years On
Marc Livecche Providence
Avatar 2: A Three-Hour-Plus Video Game Cutscene
Nicky Otis Smith Spectator World


Friday, December 23
Make Spirits Bright
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty Exclusive
O Holy Crap
Walter Kirn The Free Press
The Progressive Scarlett O'Hara
Matthew Schmitz First Things
Tolstoy and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
Maxim D. Shrayer Tablet
Reenchanted Science
Erik Baker The Baffler
'Bookforum' Was a Good Magazine
Bindu Bansinath Vulture
Sinners, Saints, and Grace in 'We’re No Angels'
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Forgotten Man No More
Emina Melonic American Greatness
The Most Dangerous Show on Netflix?
Kenneth Schrupp The American Conservative
The Ten Best Films of 2022
The Editors RogerEbert.com
A Second Plunge Into Pandora
Kyle Smith WSJ
The Best Books of 2022
The Editors The New Yorker
ChatGPT, Digital Cyrano
Robert F. Graboyes Bastiat's Window
The Moral and Cultural Basis of the Free Market
Paul D. Mueller University Bookman
3 Must-Read Books to Ring in the New Year
Robert Curry American Thinker
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