RealClearBooks Week of April 17, 2023 Archives

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Monday, April 17
The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis
Casey Cep The New Yorker
The Long, Strange Road Trip of Elijah Wood
Katie Baker The Ringer
James Bond at 70
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
The Rise of the Sports Revolutionary
Max Foley-Keene Commonweal
Charles Frazier’s Claptrap of a Novel
Micah Mattix Washington Free Beacon
AI Is a False Prophet
Jacob Howland UnHerd
The 'Super Mario Bros.' Invisible Wokeness
Spencer Klavan Washington Examiner
The Incredible Story of How Nike Signed LeBron James
Jeff Benedict Esquire
Respectability Politics Works
River Page Pirate Wires
The Long Goodbye
Blake Smith Tablet
American Truckers Are Getting Squeezed
Alex N. Press Jacobin
World’s End
Ilana Masad Alta Online
Metallica Vanquish Their Demons
Craig Jenkins Vulture
When Sisyphus Got a Boob Job
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
An Almost Perfect Film
Luke McKernan Luke McKernan
Why We Need Beauty
Lee Trepanier University Bookman
The Cult of Sigmund Freud
Henry Marsh New Statesman
Bill Butler, Cinematographer on ‘Jaws’, Dies at 101
Rhett Bartlett THR
Michael Lerner, Actor Seen ‘Barton Fink,’ Dies at 81
Lauren McCarthy New York Times


Tuesday, April 18
Miami’s Crypto Dream Lives On
Elle Hardy UnHerd
Shut Up and Drive
Rob Henderson The Free Press
Acta Non Verba
Helen Dale Law & Liberty
The Discontents of Francis Fukuyama
Daniel Bessner The Nation
I Really Didn’t Want to Go
Lauren Oyler Harper's
The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife
Zoe Hu Dissent
The Struggle to Recognize Your Own Face Online
Leo Kim Dirt
The Books of My Life
Colson Whitehead The Guardian
The Gate Out of Paradise
Jake Marmer Tablet
Against Safetyism
Byrne Hobart & Tobias Huber Pirate Wires
On Eleanor Catton's 'Birnam Wood'
Ann Skea Eclectica
The Great Surrender
Amanda Fortini Pennyroyal
TV’s Late Crowd Grapples With Weakness in the Wee Hours
Brian Steinberg Variety
Why Poetry Is a Variety of Mathematical Experience
Peli Grietzer Aeon
On Stephen Markley’s 'The Deluge'
Kevin Koczwara Los Angeles Review of Books
David Grann, Adventure Writer, Isn’t One for the Outdoors
Caryn James WSJ
Guide to a Foreign Past
Carlos Noreña Aeon Magazine
Modernists Can Be Monarchists
Richard Bratby The Critic Magazine
Not Focused on the Family
Naomi Schaefer Riley Washington Free Beacon
Critic or Coroner?
Christopher McCaffery The American Conservative


Wednesday, April 19
Just a Social Animal?
Paul Seaton Law & Liberty
The Anti-Humanism of Han Kang
Valerie Stivers Compact
Momfluencers Won’t Absolve Your Guilt
Phoebe Maltz Bovy UnHerd
Human Resources
David Polansky The New Atlantis
The Death of a Literary Magazine
Christian Lorentzen The Washington Post
Radical Dilettantism
Mary Retta The Baffler
An Interview with Victor LaValle
Jared Jackson PEN America
'Jesus Revolution' and Generation Z’s Religious Crisis
Isaac Willour Religion & Liberty
Kara Jackson’s Plaintive, Playful Folk Songs
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
Glenn Gould’s Musical Laboratory
Norman Lebrecht The Critic
Philosophy’s No-Go Zone
Alex Byrne Quillette
My Curtains, My Radiator
Mitchell Johnson The Paris Review
The Palo Alto System
Jonathan Lethem The Nation
Netflix Will End Its DVD Service, 5.2 Billion Discs Later
Nicole Sperling NYT
A Hollywood Ode to Eco-Terrorism
Emmet Penney Compact
The Whig View of Spanish History
Jorge González-Gallarza The Critic Magazine
Netflix’s Black Cleopatra is Ahistorical
David Abulafia The Spectator World
The Return of Paganism
Liel Leibovitz Commentary Magazine


Thursday, April 20
The Struggle to Save Ballet From Itself
Madison Mainwaring The New Republic
How Hollywood Is Making Me a Union Man
Rob Long The Free Press
Ivy League Exodus
Armin Rosen Tablet
Going Roth Mode
Sean Thor Conroe The Paris Review
On Consistency
Andrew Boryga Dwell
On Dizz Tate’s 'Brutes'
Erika Dirk Cleveland Review of Books
Madeline Cash Writes Stories in Her Notes App
Madeline Howard W Magazine
Transforming Into Horror, Pornography Is Killing Itself
Peter Gietl Return
Climate Fiction Won't Save Us
Jeff VanderMeer Esquire
The Brilliant Randomness of Nikola Jokic
Michael Pina The Ringer
The Fast Casual Society
Jonathan Clarke City Journal
In Defense of South Park
Ciara Moloney Current Affairs
It's My Book's Birthday
Tajja Isen Substack


Friday, April 21
Damaged Women
Alex Perez Mars Review of Books
GPT-4 Couldn’t Resurrect My Dad
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
It Girls and E-girls: On Madeline Cash’s 'Earth Angel'
Anna Dorn LARB
Sink or Swim
Jennifer Wilson The Nation
Women and Online Relationships
Diana Fleischman Pirate Wires
The Cuban Connection
Aaron Hamburger & Elizabeth Graver Tablet
The Problem of the 'New Elite'
ghostofchristo1 Paroxysms
Ari Aster Is Not Afraid of Alienating You
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Classical, New, or Conservative Liberalism?
Juliana Geran Pilon Law & Liberty
All Music Is Weed Music
Andy Cush Pitchfork
Who Is the Art World For?
David Gelland Palladium
The Polanski Problem
Laura Miller Slate
Reading into Brian Dillon’s ‘Affinities’
Bailey Trela Frieze
Monday, April 24
Burning Man
Tess Crain Mars Review of Books
The Double Life of John le Carré
Peter Hitchens The Lamp Magazine
Alien Minutia
Dustin Illingworth New Left Review
Surviving Hyperculture
Emina Melonic Law & Liberty
The Strange and Fascinating World of r/meth
River Page Pirate Wires
Towards an Enlightened Centrism
Richard Hanania Richard Hanania's Newsletter
BuzzFeed and the Empty Hunt for Scoops
Ross Barkan Substack
Hello, From Parrot Jungle
Jason Katz Burnaway
One Life as Paris
Derek Robertson Washington Examiner
The 'Liberal' in All of Us
Fred Bauer City Journal
Of Monsters and Men
Rhian Sasseen The Baffler
Divorcée Fiction: On Ursula Parrott
Alissa Bennett The Paris Review
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Mutiny
Karl Salzmann Washington Free Beacon
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
John Pistelli Grand Hotel Abyss
Confessions of a China Apologist
Gordon C. Chang The New Criterion
A Thrillingly Odd Couple
Laura Cumming The Guardian
A Musical Puzzle on an Ancient Vase
Armand D'Angour Antigone
The Forgotten Drug Trips of the Nineteenth Century
Clare Bucknell The New Yorker
Barry Humphries (Dame Edna to You, Possums) Is Dead at 89
Margalit Fox NYT


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