RealClearBooks Week of April 3, 2023 Archives

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Monday, April 3
The Shallow Depths of Lana Del Rey
Derek Robertson Washington Examiner
Adderall Is Not an Identity
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
Why Babies Cry
John-Paul Heil Law & Liberty
On George Saunders’ 'Liberation Day'
Kazuo Robinson Cleveland Review of Books
Soviet America’s Sweethearts
Scott McConnell American Mind
The Real AI Revolution
Wessie du Toit The Pathos of Things
A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist
Sam Sodomsky The Nation
Isaac’s War
Kenneth Sherman Tablet
Displeasure Doing Business
Casey Chalk The American Conservative
The Man Who Hurt Himself for Art
Jackson Arn The New Yorker
The Expensive, Seductive Nostalgia of 'Field of Dreams'
Matt Welch Reason
Old Ideas, New Dawn
Barton Swaim WSJ
Stationery in Motion: Letters from Hotels
Nina Ellis The Paris Review
It’s a Constable – but Not the One You Know
Dalya Alberge The Guardian
The Most Enigmatic Works in Art History
Meilan Solly Smithsonian Magazine
On the Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
John Steele Gordon The New Criterion
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Composer, Dies at 71
Gavin J Blair THR


Tuesday, April 4
Pity the Child
Bruce Abramson RealClearBooks
A Mythology for Young Men
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
Why are Credentialed Writers Mad About Beckett's?
Noah Kumin The Machine War
Clicking Our Way Down Main Street
James Lileks Discourse
The Unbearable Costs of Becoming a Writer
Nicole Chung Esquire
Natalie Merchant’s Lost American Songs
Mike Sacks The New Yorker
Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Borderless Brilliance
Simon Reynolds Pitchfork
Carhartt-less Behavior
Sheluyang Peng Society & Standpoint
The Thought Police Come for Miss Marple
Daniel J. Mahoney American Mind
A.I. Can’t Write My Cat Story
David Means The New York Times
Vintage Cars Go Electric
Brett Berk Vanity Fair
How to Take an Iconic Mugshot
Kara Kennedy The Spectator World
Laura Adamczyk Interviewed
Amanda Goldblatt Bomb Magazine
A Musical Paean to America
John Masko WSJ
Our Struggle to Concentrate is Nothing New
Michael Ledger-Lomas The Spectator
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself
Zachary Woolfe The New York Times
E.E.. Cummings Libertarian Utopia
Richard Kostelanetz Reason
Searching for Juliet
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review


Wednesday, April 5
Our Lost Boys
Brenda M. Hafera Law & Liberty
My Wild Weekend at the Philip Roth Festival
Erin Somers Esquire
AI Is Far Older Than We Think
Sebastian Milbank The Critic
The Darkness of Dance
Rosie Kay UnHerd
Annie Ernaux’s 'Look at the Lights, My Love'
Grace Byron Cleveland Review of Books
The Mind-Bending Fiction of Mircea Cărtărescu
Will Self The Nation
Death of the Podcast
Terry Nguyen Dirt
Beyond Race
Charles Fain Lehman City Journal
Waugh’s Last Cruel Novel
John P. Rossi The New Criterion
16 New Books for April
The Editors Alta Online
Why No One Can Control AI
Peter Stevenson The Free Press
Most People Did Not Finish Amazon's "Rings Of Power"
Emma Keates The A.V. Club
A Curious Court Chronicle
Kyle Peterson WSJ
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review
On Mary Wollstonecraft
Joanna Biggs The Paris Review
What Happened to Goths?
John Sturgis The Critic Magazine


Thursday, April 6
The Decline of American Values
Mark L. Movsesian Law & Liberty Exclusive
How to Be an Intellectual
Richard Hanania Richard Hanania's Newsletter
Did Heteropessimism Kill the Rom-Com?
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The Golden Age of Aerospace
Brian Balkus Palladium
The Real Reasons Why the English Department Died
Adam Ellwanger Quillette
The Emotional Genius of Ryuichi Sakamoto
Nina Li Coomes The Atlantic
The Fallacy of Closure (In Writing)
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Did Philip Roth Read Judy Blume?
Sarah Arkebauer Los Angeles Review of Books
What Is the Appeal of Fan Fiction?
Katy Waldman The New Yorker
Roses Are Red, Walmarts Are Blue
Addison Del Mastro The Deleted Scenes
TikTok Ban Could Devastate Food Creators
Sam Stone Bon Appétit
Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Cover of His New Memoir
Viet Thanh Nguyen Literary Hub
An Essay in the Uncanny: "Ugetsu Monogatari"
Eric Rhode Sight and Sound
Fahrenheit 2023
Lloyd Billingsley American Greatness
Time Was
John P. Rossi The New Criterion
Don’t Look Back: Rereading Duras
Toril Moi London Review of Books
Putting on Appearances
Bill Heavey WSJ
George Eliot’s Marriage Plot
Anna Leszkiewicz New Statesman
100 Years of Harold Lloyd’s "Safety Last!"
Pamela Hutchinson The Guardian


Friday, April 7
Matt Taibbi Is Still an Outsider
Charlie Tidmarsh RealClearBooks
Moms on the Warpath
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
The von Trapps of Harlem
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Thinking Like a Mountain
Madeleine Crum The Baffler
Reimagining Underground Rave Culture
Emily Witt The New Yorker
The Frontier Under Your Nose
Davis Hunt Created
‘Air’ Knows Exactly What It Is
Adam Nayman The Ringer
A Springboard for Great Irish Writing
Max Ufberg The New York Times
Everyone Deserves Grandeur
Marianela D’Aprile The Nation
'Paint' Is an Unhappy Little Accident
Peter Tonguette Washington Examiner
Italy’s Non-Cancel Culture
Howard Husock City Journal
A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux
Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Lit Hub
Remembering Rumpole
Kevin Mims Quillette
Video War
James Meek London Review of Books
Inside Donald Glover’s New Creative Playground
Mark Anthony Green GQ
Strange Hope
James Wham Sidecar
Such Sweet Sorrow
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review
10 Great Films of 1923
BFI BFI
‘An Admirable Point’ Review: Exclaim Yourself!
Priscilla M. Jensen WSJ
Monday, April 10
A.I. Pop Culture Is Already Here
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Nick Cave on Christ and the Devil
Nick Cave & Freddie Sayers UnHerd
What Effect Does Michelin Have on a City’s Dining Scene?
Nikki Bayley Eater
The Fierce Reality of Beauty
Sarah Christine George Law & Liberty
The Fall of Prince Naseem Hamed
Jonathan Snowden Hybrid Shoot
Open the AI Doors
Jon Stokes City Journal
M. Night Shyamalan’s Strange Renaissance
Stephen Kearse The Nation
A Scandal Is Taking Place in American Music
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Get Serious: About Purpose
Katherine Boyle The Free Press
Do We Need a Nintendo Cinematic Universe?
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
Richard Belzer the Destroyer
Ritch Shydner Vulture
'Air' and the Professional Sport of Marketing
Chris Vognar Washington Examiner
Setting America Back on Its Heels
Rob Lockwood Washington Free Beacon
On 'Showing Up'
Michelle Orange 4Columns
Paul Schrader’s Very Paul Schrader Days in Assisted Living
Adriane Quinlan Curbed
The Promise and Peril of Movie Remakes
Peter Tonguette The Spectator World
The Accidental Journalist
Ash Carter Air Mail
How Did Hokas Become So Popular?
Reyhan Harmanci The New York Times
Classic Corner: Yes, Madam!
Sean Burns Crooked Marquee
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Compact Conversations by Compact
Available this week: "This Is Not Miami" by Fernanda Melchor
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