RealClearBooks Week of February 6, 2023 Archives

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Monday, February 6
M. Night Shyamalan’s Fears and Redemptions
Adam Nayman The New Yorker
Stoics in the Shining City
Jesse Russell Law & Liberty
Busting the Myth of Left and Right
Oliver Traldi Washington Examiner
AI “Girlfriends”: Male Emancipation at Last?
Mary Harrington Reactionary Feminist
The Vengeful Ex-girlfriends of TikTok
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
On Dylan's 'Time Out of Mind Sessions'
Jayson Greene Pitchfork
The AI-Generated Seinfeld Twitch Stream, Explained
Brandon Gorrell Pirate Wires
Highbrow’s Enemy
Jonathan Kirshner New Left Review
So Who Was Tom Brady?
Dave Zirin The Nation
Franklin Goes to Hollywood
Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield The Pamphleteer
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Reinaldo Laddaga 4Columns
Jennifer Sey Keeps Getting Canceled for Speaking Up
Billy Binion Reason
Seven Reflections on Godard's Memory
Various MUBI
On Not Knowing Greek (in 1923)
Virginia Woolf Antigone
Indie Gem a Victim of Woke Hollywood Mob
Miranda Devine New York Post
Melinda Dillon, of ‘A Christmas Story,’ Dies at 83
Mike Barnes The Hollywood Reporter


Tuesday, February 7
The Defiance of Salman Rushdie
David Remnick The New Yorker
The 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive
Freddie deBoer Substack
Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Bruce Wagner
Elizabeth Ellen Hobart
All the Single Ladies
Rob Henderson Rob Henderson's Newsletter
Bret Easton Ellis: 'My Generation Wanted to Be Offended'
Bret Easton Ellis UnHerd
Paul Johnson, 1928–2023
Roger Kimball The New Criterion
The US Navy from Sail to Steam
William Anthony Hay Law & Liberty
Men on Horseback
Alberto M. Fernandez IM—1776
Salman Rushdie Makes a Triumphant Return
Nathan Smith Esquire
A Midwestern Journalist’s Retrospective
Juliana Geran Pilon RealClearBooks
This Is Pamela, Finally
Roxane Gay The Cut
Why Aren't Movies Sexy Anymore?
Eliana Dockterman Time
Camp Crowder vs ‘Big Con’
Ross Anderson Tablet
Blame Palo Alto
Scott W. Stern The New Republic
An Anglo-Saxon Celebration of the Senses in Silver
Jane Coombs WSJ
Truman Capote and the Millionaire’s Widow
Tom Seymour Evans TLS
On 20 Years of 50 Cent and ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’’
Paul Thompson The Ringer
Armie Hammer Speaks Out
Jennifer Zhan Vulture


Wednesday, February 8
The Laptop Class Crosses the Border
Germán Saucedo Compact
The Conflagration at Waco
Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty
‘The Last of Us’ Reveals the Best of Us
Rob Henderson The Free Press
After the Fatwa
Zain Khalid The Drift
'Top Gun: Maverick': Our America Is Back
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Review of Alessandro Manzoni's 'The Betrothed'
Alberto Mingardi City Journal
Dizz Tate’s Novel ‘Brutes’ Captures Girlhood in Florida
Sophia June Nylon
A Football Memoir, With Tears
Samuel G. Freedman The Atlantic
Alone in My Love of 90s Melancholy
Kay Clarity Chaos & Beauty
A Reckoning for Silicon Valley
Nick Burns New Statesman
Western Society Is Built on Stigma
Lionel Shriver UnHerd
Capitalism’s Dutch Dynamic
Samuel Gregg Engelsberg ideas
A Conversation with Percival Everett
Ayize Jama-Everett Los Angeles Review of Books
The 'Fleishman' Effect
Caitlin Moscatello The Cut
Édouard Louis’s Chronicles of Class
Tara K. Menon The Nation
The Approaching Disintegration of Academia
Mark Goldblatt Quillette
The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis
Reeves Wiedeman Vulture
Kids, Marriage, and the American Way
Casey Chalk The American Conservative
Beware of False Prophets
Zachary Hardman The Critic
Jew People
Malina Saval Tablet


Thursday, February 9
The Conflagration at Waco
Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty Exclusive
What Authors Hide About Sensitivity Readers
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Woke-ism Is Winding Down
Musa al-Gharbi Compact
‘You People’ Is a Warning, You People
Liel Leibovitz Tablet
The Ultra-Rich and High Culture
David Rieff Desire and Fate
Pitchfork and the Death of Things as Themselves
Freddie deBoer Substack
What I Think About LeBron Breaking My Record
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Substack
Zeno’s Return
Becca Rothfeld New Left Review
Bruce Springsteen and These Lost Years
Joan Walsh The Nation
The Erotic Sophistication of Smokey Robinson
Jason Heller The Atlantic
Marcel Proust on What Writing Is
William Benton The New Yorker
The Diversity Man
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Football in Iraq
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar The International Correspondent
Steven Soderbergh Can’t Quit 'Magic Mike'
Matt Zoller Seitz Vulture
"Winnie the Pooh": The Viral Micro-Budget Slasher
K.J. Yossman Variety
Opium of the Elite: Hayek in England
Jonathan Rée London Review of Books
Oprah Revives the 1619 Project Fabrications
Armond White National Review
The Some Like It Hot Revival Is Cream-puff Theater
Robert Erickson Spectator World
A Rosier View of Roald Dahl
Alexandra Jacobs New York Times


Friday, February 10
Love Songs: 'Mississippi'
Sophie Haigney The Paris Review
The State of the Culture (2023)
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Lethal Beauty of the Gloriosa Lily
Amanda Fortini New York Times Style
Through Containment and Beyond
Joshua Hren Law & Liberty
Big Play: On Playing Fantasy Football
John Semley The Baffler
Daughters Outgrow Parents in Two Unsparing Novels
James Wood The New Yorker
Lucinda Williams on Her Life and Lyrics
Lisa Robinson Vanity Fair
The Magician's Bargain: Web3 and Music
Daniel Orsen Created
Rhinestone Cowboys
Jenna Stocker A Pilgrim’s Progress
The King and His Scoring Crown
Seerat Sohi The Ringer
The Masterpiece No One Wanted to Save
George Packer The Atlantic
Man Among Men
Steven McGregor The New Criterion
Mass Equals Pigment: Cezanne’s Puzzles
Julian Bell London Review of Books
Idris Elba Stopped Calling Himself a ‘Black Actor’
Zack Sharf Variety
Tangled Tales of a Traumatic Time
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review
Burt Bacharach, High Gloss Composer of the ’60s, Dies at 94
Stephen Holden NYT
Podcast: Decentralized Culture Wars by Return
Available this week: "Brutes" by Dizz Tate
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