RealClearBooks Week of May 22, 2023 Archives

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Monday, May 22
The Autofiction Writer and the Torturer
Marcus Hijkoop Compact
The Great Light Beer War of 2023
Phoebe Maltz Bovy The Free Press
Dave Barry Loves Florida
Alex Perez Washington Examiner
Taylor Sheridan's Fallen World
Mark Eckel Law & Liberty
The Cleopatra Documentary is Worse Than You Think
River Page Pirate Wires
Martin Amis’s Comic Music
James Wood The New Yorker
A Conversation With Paul Schrader
Matthew Allan Vanity Fair
From Duty to Decadence
Theodore Dalrymple City Journal
Where Everybody Knows Your Theme Song
Rob Long Washington Free Beacon
How Rust Belt Americans Spanned Time
Jake Slowik IM-1776
Annie Ernaux on Her Unapologetic Career
Alice Blackhurst The Guardian
Martin Scorsese’s Searing True-Crime Epic
David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter
The Queers Versus The Homosexuals
Andrew Sullivan The Weekly Dish
A Painted Comedy of Womanhood
Cammy Brothers WSJ
Faust and the Risk of Desire
Adam Kirsch The Paris Review
Persian, Greek and Hellenistic Luxuries
Peter Stothard TLS
Rick Dalton, Lead in 'Bounty Law', is Dead at 90
Meredith Woerner Variety


Tuesday, May 23
All The Things We Leave Behind
Farahn Morgan RealClearBooks
Billy Graham Went From Superstardom to Immortality
Oliver Bateman The Ringer
The Magnificent Prose of Martin Amis
Christian Lorentzen Financial Times
The Parents Saying No to Smartphones
Olivia Reingold The Free Press
Jim Brown’s War Within Himself
Dave Zirin The Nation
What Happened to 'The Little Mermaid'?
Angelica Jade Bastién Vulture
In Praise of the Pitch Clock
Gregory Hillis Commonweal
We Are All Bourgeoisie Now
David Polansky Strange Frequencies
Rediscovering Martin Amis
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
Upstaged by Marlon Brando
Alan Shayne The New Yorker
The Liberal Complacency of Martin Amis
Terry Eagleton UnHerd
Let’s Stay In
John Mac Ghlionn The American Mind
Only Martin Sounded Like Martin Amis
Salman Rushdie The New Yorker
Scorsese Has Never Made a Movie Like This Before
Richard Lawson Vanity Fair
‘Orwell’ Review: A Fresh Biography of Truth’s Champion
Dominic Green WSJ
The Impossible Bronze Age Mindset
John Ehrett American Reformer
Adventures in the Manosphere
James Bloodworth New Statesman


Wednesday, May 24
The Age of Adolescence
Rita Koganzon The Point
"The Late Americans" by Brandon Taylor, Twitter Star
Laura Miller Slate
The Playoffs: A Dispatch
Rachel B. Glaser The Paris Review
‘Dead Ringers,’ Sanitized for Amazon
Adam Lehrer Compact
Who Does Saudi Better: Google or Reddit?
Katherine Dee Tablet
AI Will Make Spam Worse
Jon Stokes Return
The Lure of Orwell
John Wilson First Things
Bully Superstar
Jeremy Lybarger The Baffler
Martin Amis, R.I.P.
Matthew Walther The Lamp
Wes Anderson Has Gone Mad
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
Brandon Taylor is Reinventing the Campus Novel
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
Our Common Republic?
Casey Chalk Law & Liberty
It’s About to Get Incredibly Expensive to Watch Sports
Will Leitch Intelligencer
Post-Rationalism is Reshaping Tech Culture
Tara Isabella Burton The New Atlantis
It's OK to Like Good art by Bad People
Stefan Beck Washington Examiner
The Problem with 'The Rehearsal' and 'Jury Duty'
Sarah Manavis New Statesman
Into the Ditch
Peter Hitchens The Lamp Magazine


Thursday, May 25
The Tech Messiahs Who Want to Deliver Us from Death
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Build Back Red California
Walter Russell Mead Tablet
Tina Turner, Electrifying Entertainer, Dies at 83
Deborah Wilker Hollywood Reporter
The Hyperpalatable Human
Mary Harrington Reactionary Feminist
Masters of Mediocrity
Nic Rowan The American Conservative
Death and Life and Amis and Bellow
Jenna Stocker A Pilgrim’s Progress
Toward a Socialist Minimalism
Benjamin Y. Fong Damage
Roger Scruton and the Love of Home
Mark Dooley Public Discourse
Know Your Enemies
Angel Eduardo Persuasion
Bringing the Bacchae to the Bush
Bijan Omrani The Critic Magazine
Runny Noses, Itchy Eyes
John J. Ross WSJ
Bringing Back Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Robert S. Erickson The Spectator


Friday, May 26
Combating The Censorship Industrial Complex
Charlie Tidmarsh RealClearBooks
Debate Is No Longer Allowed
James Fishback The Free Press
Martin Amis, Remembered by Writers
Multiple authors The New Yorker
12 Years A Slave: A Reevaluation
Gage Klipper Law & Liberty Exclusive
The Legend of Nikola Jokic Is Growing
Rob Mahoney The Ringer
An Interview with Vi Khi Nao
Ellena Basada Cleveland Review of Books
Tina Turner’s Cosmic Life
Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic
Serious Playfulness in Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’
Lincoln Michel Alta
Fizz and Moxie
Jonathan Clarke City Journal
In Defence of the Literary Critic
Charlotte Stroud Engelsberg ideas
The Case of the Lego Bandit
David Kushner Business Insider
Shelf Life: Brandon Taylor
Riza Cruz Elle
Hollywood’s Lurid Obsession with Cannibalism
Carmen Maria Machado Bon Appétit
On the Hunt for America’s Forgotten Apples
Andrew Zaleski Outside
Do Androids Dream of Terrible Streets?
Sohrab Ahmari Compactmag
J.S. Mill vs the Post-Liberals
Richard V Reeves Persuasion
On Hans Pfitzner & the Conservative Artist
Adam Kirsch The New Criterion
‘The Other Renaissance’ Review: Northern Lights
John Banville WSJ
Wes Anderson Has Gone Mad
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
Using AI to Make Wes Anderson Parodies
Stuart Heritage The Guardian
Nicholas Gray, Owner of Gray’s Papaya, Dies at 86
Alex Oliveira New York Post
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Merve Emre and Tobi Haslett on Sontag by The Point
Available this week: "The Late Americans" by Brandon Taylor
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