RealClearBooks Week of May 1, 2023 Archives

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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


Tuesday, May 2
Annie Ernaux and the Superstore
Adrienne Raphel The Paris Review
Fernanda Melchor’s Gritty Dispatches from Veracruz
Daniel Rey Americas Quarterly
The Cadre in the Code
Rob Henderson City Journal
Late Work
Kerry Howley Vulture
Twilight of the Highlight Idols
Gabriel Thomas Tugendstein The Point
On Osamu Dazai’s 'The Flowers of Buffoonery'
Terry Nguyen LARB
Magda Szabó and the Cost of Censorship
Charlie Lee The New Yorker
You Have Permission to Be a Smartphone Skeptic
Clare Coffey The Bulwark
A Lesson About Living From a Survivor of Suicide
David L. Ulin The Atlantic
Commie Chic Invades American Grade Schools
David Mikics Tablet
More Courage, Less fear
Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring
A Queen's Lesson for America
Daniel McCarthy Modern Age
AI, Authorship, and Algorithmic Literature
Ed Simon The Millions
Paul Schrader Wants to Make Another Movie
Alex Abramovich The New Yorker
The Poet & the Tyrant
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review
Callas and Pasolini, the Diva and the Director
Michael Pounder The New European
National Lampooner
Myron Magnet The New Criterion
Beauty at the Food Court
Anna Mundow WSJ


Wednesday, May 3
A Cuban Exile Makes It to Miami
Alejandro Camayd RealClearBooks
Traffic Jam
Leah Finnegan The Baffler
A Skirt, a Wig, and a Glock-19
Adam Popescu The Free Press
Lie to Young Men, You Get Andrew Tate
James Bloodworth The Manosphere and Beyond
If One Woman Told the Truth about Her Life
Daniel Gumbiner Believer Magazine
What If There Was Never a Revolution?
Katrina Gulliver Law & Liberty
Depersonalization and Ecstasy
Emma Collins The File
The Banality of Evil on TV
Jonah Raskin Tablet
Reviewing the Realignment
Fred Bauer Rounding Up
Can You Escape Obesity?
Freddie deBoer UnHerd
An Egyptian Vase
Jago Rackham The Paris Review
How Gordon Lightfoot Defied Top 40 Logic
Mike Ives The New York Times
The Ed Sheeran Lawsuit is a Threat
Elizabeth Nelson The Washington Post
Central Europe Has Shaped Our Culture For Centuries
Peter Frankopan The Spectator
‘Nietzsche in Italy’ Review: A Wanderer and His Shadow
Benjamin Shull WSJ
The Disappearing Acts of Haruki Murakami
Rumaan Alam The Nation
As Writers Strike, Will Viewers Notice?
James Hibberd The Hollywood Reporter
The New New Reading Environment
The Editors n+1
My Lifetime Reading Plan
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker


Thursday, May 4
The Fatal Attraction of Victimising Women
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Hip-Hop, My First Literary Influence
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Who Killed the Category Killer?
Addison Del Mastro The Bulwark
Surviving Hyperculture
Emina Melonic Law & Liberty Exclusive
Killing In Our Name
J.L. Wall Arc Digital
Christian Popular Culture's Revival
Maggie MacFarland Phillips RealClearInvestigations
Baz Luhrmann Isn't Afraid of AI
Sirena He Esquire
Lost Ones
Daniel Gumbiner Believer Magazine
Inside the Writers Strike
Matthew Belloni The Ringer
The Sheer Teeming Multiplicity and Variety of It All
Paul Strathern Lapham’s Quarterly
Why Are There No Paintings in Star Wars?
William Newton The Spectator World
Is Annie Ernaux the Most Brutally Honest Writer Alive?
Rachel Cusk NYTimes
The Spirit of Appomattox
Jonathan Clarke The Hedgehog Review
Ewelldämmerung
Don Baton City Journal
The Romantic Resurrection
Ella Nixon The Critic Magazine
Disorient Yourself
Javier Moscoso Aeon Magazine
A Garden of Paper
John M. Wisdom The New Criterion


Friday, May 5
The War on the American Worker
Michael Lind RealClearBooks
Cultural Appropriation is an American Asset
River Page Pirate Wires
Canceling Russian Culture Doesn’t Free Ukraine
Anton Tarasyuk Compact
On the Phone with RFK Jr.
Benjamin Braddock IM-1776
What Is the Future of Classical Education?
Josh Herring Law & Liberty
Med Men
Ann Bauer Tablet
America Needs Honest, Independent Journalism
David DesRosiers RCInvestigations
Murakami in the Movies
Colin Marshall The New Yorker
Mannerisms
Lola Seaton New Left Review
Hollywood’s Lost Paradise
Emina Melonic Religion & Liberty Online
Writers Like Me Have Shut Down Hollywood
Josh Gondelman The Nation
The Shaky Afterlife of Norman Mailer
Scott Bradfield The New Republic
The Best Books of 2023 (So Far)
Multiple authors Vulture
Thinking Is Risky
Samuel Kimbriel Wisdom of Crowds
Coronation is a Ritual Humiliation
Sohrab Ahmari UnHerd
A Thickness in the Air
Ben Alderson-Day Aeon Magazine
Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’?
Noam Scheiber & John Koblin NYT
A Delicate Balance
Milton Ezrati City Journal
Insight at First Sight
Jenna Silber Storey & Benjamin Storey First Things
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Compact Conversations by Compact
Available this week: "The Wager" by David Grann
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