RealClearBooks Week of January 30, 2023 Archives

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Monday, January 30
'Break Point' Faults
Park MacDougald Washington Examiner
Against Gawkerspeak
Ross Barkan Substack
Inside Book Twitter's Final(?) Days
Sophie Vershbow Esquire
What Joan Didion Means
Terry Nguyen Dirt
No One Left to Blame
Oliver Wiseman Washington Free Beacon
Some Kind of Monster
Emmet Penney The King's Move
Collective Disaster
Vikram Murthi The Nation
On 'Tár'
Richard Owain Roberts Will Say More Later After My Run.
The Hopeful Romanticism of John Keats
Helen Charman Jacobin
Ken Burns on His Most Important Film
Bari Weiss The Free Press
Gene Wolfe Was Sci-Fi’s Most Enigmatic Writer
The Editors Wired
'Maus' and the Repressive Power of Jewish Trauma
David Samuels UnHerd
'The Virgin Suicides' at 30
Dizz Tate The Guardian
How Barnes & Noble Came Back From Near Dead
Ezra Klein New York Times
Moving on From Alex Ross
Don Baton City Journal
ChatGPT Will Change Writing Forever
Greg Rosalsky & Emma Peaslee NPR
Nigel Biggar Hits Out Over ‘Cancelled’ Book
Andrew Ellson The Times
Saudi Arabia’s Hollywood Ambitions Grow
Alex Weprin The Hollywood Reporter


Tuesday, January 31
Nicolas Winding Refn's Feminist Turn
Adam Lehrer Compact
Never Underestimate Jennifer Coolidge
Shirley Li The Atlantic
A Beginner’s Guide to Bob Dylan’s 17-Volume Bootleg Series
Brady Gerber Vulture
Still Truckin’
Nicholas Clairmont The New Atlantis
Patricia Highsmith’s New York Years
Hannah Gold The New Yorker
The Ways of Ottawa
Jodi Bruhn Law & Liberty
David Berman's Bridge Ethics
Michael Collins Post45
Hopper, Katz and O'Halloran
Garth Greenwell To a Green Thought
About Those Amy Winehouse Paintings
Jeremy Sigler Tablet
The Four Biggest Story Lines Heading Into the Oscars
Keith Phipps The Ringer
Andrew Tate, Nietzsche and the Matrix
Alexis Papazoglou Institute of Art and Ideas
A Robot Wrote This Column
Peter Van Buren The American Conservative
The Written World and the Unwritten World
Brian Dillon 4Columns
Chelsea Hodson Founds a New Press
Sophia Stewart Publishers Weekly


Wednesday, February 1
Let's All Celebrate Norman Mailer
David Mikics Tablet
To See Ourselves as Others See Us
Helen Dale Law & Liberty
Examining Robbie Robertson and The Band
Ethan Warren Los Angeles Review of Books
The Success of 'Avatar' Is Nothing to Celebrate
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Do You Want Cancel Culture to Exist?
Freddie deBoer Substack
Can Poetry Heal a Broken World?
Carmen Maria Machado Elle Magazine
Imposter Syndrome
John-Paul Heil Return
The Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence
Frank Miele RealClearPolitics
A Good Death
Kristen Martin The Baffler
Boring Art, Impotent Politics
Julia Friedman Quillette
The Books That Made Me
Penelope Lively UnHerd
Brad Phillips’s Cinematic Myth-Making
Gracie Hadland Frieze
Who Lost Vietnam?
Francis P. Sempa American Spectator
How Republicans Sold Out America
Chris Buskirk Compact
A New TV Show That’s a Real Slap in the Face
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
A Genius at Suffering
Gary Saul Morson The New Criterion
The End Is Only the Beginning
Adam Kirsch The American Scholar


Thursday, February 2
The Mystery of Richard Posner
Corbin K. Barthold Law & Liberty Exclusive
How Ideologues Infiltrated the Arts
Rikki Schlott The Free Press
Welcome to Human Centipede Culture
Mary Harrington UnHerd
Willmoore Kendall’s American Affirmation
Richard M. Reinsch II Law & Liberty
S.E. Hinton Is Tired of Talking About ‘The Outsiders'
Patrick Sauer Smithsonian
Vanity Press
Matthew Schmitz First Things
Tom Brady Remade the NFL in His Image
Kevin Clark The Ringer
The Himalayan Tragedy That Changed Mountaineering
Svati Kirsten Narula Outside
Into Great Beauty
Emina Melonic The New Criterion
America’s Byron
Christopher Buckley The Atlantic
How America Lost the Atomic Age
Benjamin Leopardo Palladium
Reality Check
Reeves Wiedeman Vulture
The Best Books of Winter 2023
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
Three Books on the Siege at Waco
Barton Swaim WSJ
Getting Away with Murder
Adam Nayman Sight and Sound
Remembering Journalism
Dustin Bass The Epoch Times
Losing Homer
Jesse Russell University Bookman


Friday, February 3
Anatomy of a Book Cancellation
Nigel Biggar Compact Magazine
The Curious Case of Carlos Correa and Sports Safetyism
Dennis Saffran RCBooks
The Failure of 'The Fabelmans'
Spencer Klavan Washington Examiner
In Search of Civility
Hans Zeiger Law & Liberty
Bret Easton Ellis on Life, Art, and Manhattan
Nate Freeman Vanity Fair
The Miraculous Salman Rushdie
Judith Shulevitz The Atlantic
Novel as Meme Page
Terry Nguyen Dirt
White Noise and Climate Anxiety
Alex Trembath Discourse
Stuart Scott, Voice of a Generation
Oliver Bateman Splice Today
LeBron James’s Chase for the Scoring Record
Vinson Cunningham The New Yorker
At Sundance, Lower Budgets Mean Bigger Risks
Eric Kohn IndieWire
Remembering Paul La Farge
David Black City Journal
9 New Books for February
The Editors Alta Online
A. M. Homes and Yiyun Li in Conversation
A.M. Homes & Yiyun Li The Paris Review
Ghosts of the Cultural Revolution
Katie Stallard New Statesman
Murder in the Amazon
Oliver Balch The Spectator World
Podcast: The Integrity of Poetry by First Things
Available this week: "On the Marble Cliffs" by Ernst Junger
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