RealClearBooks Week of May 29, 2023 Archives

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Monday, May 29
Cringe-lit
Alex Perez Return
Combating The Censorship Industrial Complex
Charlie Tidmarsh RealClearBooks
Do Androids Dream of Terrible Streets?
Sohrab Ahmari Compact
The Next Great Disinformation Panic
Fred Skulthorp The Critic
Notes on Losing
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker
Baseball as a Leisure Sport
Susanna Spencer Law & Liberty
How the “Coastal Cowgirl” Aesthetic Took Over Texas
Sarah Hepola Texas Monthly
'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' at Fifty
Sam Russek Dissent
Martin Amis and Apocalypse
James W. Carden The American Conservative
The Diversity Myth
Peter Thiel The New Criterion
Elon Musk Has the World’s Strangest Social Calendar
Joseph Bernstein NYT
The 50 Best Fantasy Movies of All Time
Multiple authors Esquire
REVIEW: 'The Little Mermaid'
John Podhoretz Washington Free Beacon
A Luso-Tropical Holy Grail
Meg Weeks The Baffler
New King, Old Country
Simon Heffer The New Criterion
Classics: Inside Out and Upside Down
Joshua T. Katz National Association of Scholars
The NBA’s Game Changers
David M. Shribman WSJ
The Next Generation of American Cheese
Jaya Saxena Eater
Remembering Leo Thorsness
Scott Johnson PowerLine


Tuesday, May 30
The Time Billionaires
Sahil Bloom The Free Press
Who Is Matty Healy?
Jia Tolentino The New Yorker
On "Liberal" as a Merit Badge
Spencer Klavan Law & Liberty
The Freedom to Read
Emily Chamlee-Wright Persuasion
The Lost and Found Music of Connie Converse
Richard Klin The Millions
Kylie Minogue’s Glorious Artifice
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
The Dauntless Spirit of Richard Halliburton
Jenna Stocker Spectator World
Can a Soldier Come Home From War?
John Waters RealClearDefense
Keep 'The Covenant' on Your Moviegoing Radar
Titus Techera Acton Institute
On Clancy Martin’s “How Not to Kill Yourself”
Gordon Marino LARB
'Succession' Ends How It Began
Shirley Li The Atlantic
Civic Storytelling
Brian Dillon 4Columns
Make the Days Count
Benjamin Van Horrick City Journal
William F. Buckley Jr.’s Travel Writings
John J. Miller National Review
Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer
Teju Cole The New York Times
Kafka’s Trials
Theodore Dalrymple First Things
Cortés in Mexico
Maxwell Carter WSJ
I Have Gorgeous Hair
Emily Wilson London Review of Books


Wednesday, May 31
Curtis Sittenfeld's Predictable Insight
Elizabeth Grace Matthew RealClearBooks
Is My Writing a Hobby Or a Career?
Rainesford Stauffer Esquire
Taylor Swift's Fans Don't Understand Men
River Page Pirate Wires
Veterans Set up a Forward Operating Base at NASCAR
Farahn Morgan DC Examiner
Why AI Can't Think
David P. Goldman Law & Liberty
Has Musk Ruined Twitter?
Sohrab Ahmari The American Conservative
Want to Stare Into the Republican Soul in 2023?
Alexander Sammon Slate
AI and the Return of Creative Elitism
Isaac Simpson American Mind
'Succession' Is TV's Most Devastating Critique of the Rich
Conner Reed Jacobin
Tina Turner Bet on Herself
Craig Jenkins Vulture
Caroline Calloway Survived Cancellation
Lili Anolik Vanity Fair
Where to Find the Real America
Susan Straight Los Angeles Times
Blimp Lives!
David Polanksy Strange Frequencies
The Celtics Can’t Run It Back After This
Kevin O'Connor The Ringer
Unpacking an Economic Titan
Jesse Norman The Critic Magazine
The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh
Michael Forsythe & et al The New York Times
How Germs Shape History
Kathleen Jamie New Statesman
The King and Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll
John Anderson WSJ
On Chuck Berry
Ian Penman Harper’s Magazine 


Thursday, June 1
The Role Reversal of R.F. Kuang’s 'Yellowface'
Sheluyang Peng RealClearBooks
Purity-Policing Is Poison to Poetry
Emmalea Russo Compact
Why Ron DeSantis Can’t Meme
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
Taylor Sheridan's Fallen World
Mark Eckel Law & Liberty Exclusive
The Sonic Environments of Ry Cooder
Michael Blair The Baffler
Kelly Reichardt’s Cinema of Class Conflict
Alex Kong The Nation
Where the Writing Gets Done
Andrew Boryga Dwell
The Skeptic
Julia Stone Tablet
Consider the Birds
Robert Rubsam Commonweal
Politics, Not Apology
Freddie deBoer Freddie deBoer
Books Are Subjectivity-Merging Devices
Sasha Chapin Sasha's 'Newsletter'
The Zen Wisdom of Sarah Silverman
Carrie Battan The New Yorker
A Campus Satire for Our Time
Carol Iannone Acton Institute
Choosing Defeat
Mackubin Thomas Owens Claremont Review of Books
What Did Palaeo-European Peoples Write?
Gabriela de Tord Basterra Antigone
The Inside-Out Diorama
James Panero The New Criterion
Models of Antiquity
Francesca Langer Aeon Magazine
A Map of 1,001 Novels
Susan Straight Los Angeles Times
The Afterlife of Christopher Hitchens
Oliver Wiseman The Spectator World


Friday, June 2
Tina Turner in the House
Amanda Fortini Pennyroyal
Imagine Susan Sontag on Twitter
Katie Roiphe The Atlantic
Poetry Has Lost Its Violence
Justin E. H. Smith UnHerd
Martin Amis Resisted Every Cliché
Richard Seymour Jacobin
AI's Future: Liberty or License?
John O. McGinnis Law & Liberty
The Bowdlerization of Everything
Brian Renninger IM—1776
Watching Sports on TV
Forrest Muelrath Hobart
The True Mystery in James Comey’s Crime Novel
Jacob Bacharach The New Republic
Searching for Meg White
Melissa Giannini Elle
When the Cancelled Strike Back
Jeremiah Johnson Infinite Scroll
The Sublime Brilliance of Nikola Jokic
Ben Golliver & Artur Galocha The Washington Post
High-flown English
Thomas Meaney New Left Review
Hannah Gadsby Embarrasses the Brooklyn Museum
Jason Farago NYTimes
Cancelling History
David Lewis Schaefer American Mind
The Truth about 'Book Bans'
Amber Athey The Spectator World
Deep States
Wilfred M. McClay Claremont Review of Books
The Medieval Shock of the New
Mathew Lyons The Critic Magazine
Vichy’s Long Shadow
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review
The Other Monet
David Platzer The New Criterion
In the Blood
David A. Shaywitz WSJ
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Compact Conversations by Compact
Available this week: "The Late Americans" by Brandon Taylor
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