RealClearBooks Week of April 24, 2023 Archives

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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


Tuesday, April 25
How Allan Gurganus Became a Writer
Megan Mayhew Bergman The New Yorker
A Representative Problem
David Polanksy The American Conservative
What’s Life Like for the Child of a Psychoanalyst?
Alana Pockros The Nation
A Child’s Primer for Liberty
John O. McGinnis Law & Liberty Exclusive
The Empty Cult of 'The Big Lebowski'
Matt Feeney UnHerd
The Lost Music of Connie Converse
Jeremy Lybarger The New Republic
Where Has the Rock Star Male Novelist Gone?
Finn McRedmond The Irish Times
A Century of the New York ‘It’ Girl
Multiple authors The Cut
My Father's Rolex
Emma Straub GQ
What’s a God to a Machine?
Jeff Weiss The Ringer
Publishing Prejudices
Theodore Dalrymple Law & Liberty
The Novel Truth
Daniel J. Mahoney The New Criterion
Italy’s Non-Cancel Culture
Howard Husock City Journal
In Praise of the Long Movie
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Russell Crowe Wrestles with the Devil
Titus Techera Washington Free Beacon
Soda Jerk’s Latest Triumph
Luke Buckmaster The Guardian
The Words Don’t Really Matter
Adam Nayman The Ringer


Wednesday, April 26
The RFK Jr. Tapes
David Samuels Tablet
What Your Country Can Do for You
Rob Henderson The Free Press
Be Honest About What You Care About
Freddie deBoer Substack
Judy Blume’s Unfinished Endings
Sarah Larson The New Yorker
Stories We Don’t Want to Hear
Cory Oldweiler Southwest Review
A.I. and the Search for the Human
Norman Fiering Law & Liberty
When Human Flourishing Becomes Human Suffering
Jonathan Leaf Acton Institute
How to Love the Art, Hate the Artist
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
Like All Other Nations?
Elliot Kaufman City Journal
Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother
Claire Dederer LitHub
There’s More to Corsets Than Meets the Eye
Francesca Peacock The Spectator World
Lit Mags and Money (or the Lack of It)
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
The Best Movies of 2023, So Far
Richard Lawson Vanity Fair
Anime Confronts a New Apocalypse
Matt Alt The New Yorker
The Manliness of Screwball Comedy
Emina Melonic American Greatness
Freud as Talmudist
Kate Elinsky Jewish Review of Books
How To Ruin Your Kids
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
Harry Belafonte, Singer and Activist, Dies at 96
Peter Keepnews The New York Times


Thursday, April 27
Judgement Day
Jayson Buford Tablet
Norman Mailer’s Ripe Garbage
Rob Madole The Baffler
Love Ruins Everything: On Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’
Sophia Stewart The Millions
The Extraordinary Evolution of Brook Lopez
Rob Mahoney The Ringer
Who Was Robert Plunket?
Danzy Senna The Paris Review
What Little Richard Deserved
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
The Man Who Invented the Modern Cop Novel
Kevin Mims Quillette
Is Drawing Connections Enough?: On Brian Dillon’s 'Affinities'
Alana Pockros LARB
Is Atheism a Belief?
Berny Belvedere Arc Digital
Who’s Afraid of Patti LuPone?
Rachel Handler Vulture
Percival Everett and the Ambiguities of Experience
Anita Felicelli Alta Online
To Monopolise Our Ears: What Spotify Wants
Daniel Cohen London Review of Books
Can a Genius Survive?
Barton Swaim WSJ
Epstein's Epic
Steve Sailer Taki's Magazine
The Musical Bard
Thomas Fox Averill The American Scholar
One Life as Paris
Derek Robertson Washington Examiner
In Praise of Irritation
Will Rees Aeon Magazine


Friday, April 28
'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' at 80
Elizabeth Grace Matthew RealClearBooks
Sports Betting Is the ‘New Oxycontin’
Eric Spitznagel The Free Press
Samurai Nationalism
Jarrett Stepman First Things
Is Trans the New Anorexia?
Lionel Shriver UnHerd
Lemon8 Is for the (Hot, Rich) Girlies
Nick Russo Pirate Wires
Freshman Fifteen? I’ll Raise You a Sophomore Sixty
Oliver Bateman Splice Today
Thomas Jefferson, America’s Writer
Paul Krause Public Discourse
Carol Burnett Has a Story for Everything
Josef Adalian Vulture
Schools Can Be Diverse and Competent
Robert C. Thornett Law & Liberty
September Is Over
Jude Russo The American Conservative
Sentimental Humanitarianism Plagues the West
Emily Finley Agon
Me, Fifty
Christian Schneider Anti-Knowledge
Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag
Alexander Wells European Review of Books
Monday, May 1
The Emerging Tennis-Pickleball Culture War
Park MacDougald Washington Examiner
We Must Declare Jihad Against A.I.
Michael Cuenco Compact
‘Fatal Attraction’ Is a Classic
Adam Nayman The Ringer
A Fable for Our Time
Matthew Pheneger Law & Liberty
A Golden Age?
Ryan Ruby Vinduet
Why Are TV Writers So Miserable?
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
REVIEW: ‘Lucky Hank’
Christopher J. Scalia Washington Free Beacon
The American Conspiracy Canon
Devin Thomas O’Shea Cleveland Review of Books
The Buzziest Restaurant in America
Brett Martin GQ
Harry Belafonte Dragged Us Into the Future
Craig Jenkins Vulture
'Shrinking' and the Rebirth of Manliness
Titus Techera Religion & Liberty Online
Sonnets for the Trilingual Family Man
Jake Marmer Tablet
On 'Chain-Gang All-Stars'
David O'Neill 4Columns
JS Mill and the Despotism of Progress
Patrick Deehan UnHerd
Wielding Weighty Words to Salvage the World
David Hein University Bookman
Did Fassbinder Kill Himself?
Stuart Jeffries The Spectator World
A Natural-History Museum for a Post-Truth Age
Christopher Hawthorne New Yorker
Birch Watching
Daniel J. Flynn City Journal
Redeeming a Calamity
Willard Spiegelman WSJ


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