RealClearBooks Week of June 12, 2023 Archives

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Monday, June 12
Mary Gaitskill: How a Chatbot Charmed Me
Mary Gaitskill UnHerd
On the Trumpist Frontlines of the Saudi Golf Takeover
Kara Kennedy New Statesman
Why Would America Want 'Farmer Wants a Wife'?
Derek Robertson DC Examiner
On Academic Celebrity Profiles (in the New Yorker)
Blake Smith Substack
A Poet’s Politics
Adam Kirsch City Journal
Quentin Tarantino's Escape from History
Adam Simon Law & Liberty
Meet Wikipedia's Architects
Gutes Guterman Byline
The View from Inside Beatlemania
Jill Lepore The New Yorker
Making Sense of Antonio Gramsci
Michael Denning & Daniel Denvir Jacobin
Non-Fungible Timepieces
Peter Gietl Return
On Katie Heindl’s “Basketball Feelings”
Liz Wolfson Los Angeles Review of Books
The Immortal Mel Brooks
Judd Apatow The Atlantic
Why Are Men Always Naked in Ancient Greek Art?
Sarah Murray Aeon Magazine
Who Gets to Define the ‘Good’?
Barton Swaim WSJ
Longer Version of Ozu’s ‘Straightforward Boy’ Found
Noriki Ishitobi Asahi Shimbun
Russian Assets
Joseph Epstein Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, June 13
The Unsexiness of Sex Positivity
Ginevra Davis Tablet
Women Are Pawns in the Contraception War
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Confessions of a Radioactive Mind
Slavoj Zizek Compact
The Casual Ignominy of the Book Tours of Yore
John Banville Esquire
Against Inhumane Architecture
James Stevens Curl The Critic Magazine
Tom Wolfe Appreciates "Studs Lonigan"
Tom Wolfe Top Ten Books
Where Are the Free Speech Martyrs?
David Wootton Law & Liberty
A Place for the Malaise
Jenna Stocker A Pilgrim’s Progress
‘Jurassic Park’ at 30
Miles Surrey The Ringer
On "The Flying Dutchman"
Jay Nordlinger The New Criterion
The Black Dandy of Buenos Aires
Paulina L. Alberto The Public Domain Review
The Rise of Fake Libraries
Emily Rhodes The Spectator World
A Discussion of the Best Movies of the Year So Far
Richard Brody The New Yorker
The Binge Purge
Josef Adalian & Lane Brown Vulture


Wednesday, June 14
Eat, Pray, Cringe
Kat Rosenfield Pirate Wires
The NCAA Has a ‘Hot Girl’ Problem
Ethan Strauss The Free Press
The Jenny Lewis Show
David Yaffe Tablet
Cormac McCarthy Is Dead at 89
Dwight Garner New York Times
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Self-cancellation
Leigh Stein UnHerd
Casual Luke Rides the Big Wave
Gabriella Paiella GQ
On Allie Rowbottom’s “Aesthetica”
Emmeline Clein Cleveland Review of Books
Picketing on Twitter’s Lawn
Greg Dickinson Law & Liberty
Off the Couch
Federico Perelmuter Parapraxis
How It's Made
Nell Whittaker Tank Magazine
The Lost Art of Statesmanship
Gary L. Gregg II Intercollegiate Studies Institute
The Demise of the Garage Inventor
Joseph Joyce The New Atlantis
Can Fraternities Save America?
Isaac Willour Acton Institute
Does Journalling Actually Improve Mental Health?
Anne Thériault The Walrus
The Bible and Poetry
Michael Edwards The Paris Review
A World Beyond Us
David E. Cooper Los Angeles Review of Books
Did This Writer Actually Know Tennessee Williams?
Helen Shaw The New Yorker
The Bomb Myth
Christopher Kaczor The American Conservative
A Poet’s Politics
Adam Kirsch City Journal
The Habsburg Way
Dominic Green Washington Examiner
Treat Williams, ‘Hair’ and ‘Everwood’ Star, Dies at 71
J. Kim Murphy Variety


Thursday, June 15
Feminism's Alienation of the Body
Rachel Lu RealClearBooks Symposium
Nature's Progress
Emina Melonic RealClearBooks Symposium
Feminism Needs Religion
Elizabeth Grace Matthew RealClearBooks Symposium
The Unabomber Never Grew Up
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
America’s Love Affair with Adderall
Maya Sulkin The Free Press
The Exterior Darkness
Spencer Klavan American Mind
Cormac McCarthy’s Narrative Wisdom
Ed Caesar The New Yorker
Sports Writers Out, Zoomer TikTokers In
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
The Forgotten Post-Liberals
John Ehrett Athwart
Remembering Cormac McCarthy
The Editors LitHub
Tocqueville’s Search for Home
Sarah Gustafson Law & Liberty
Baseball: My Useful Distraction
Andrew Boryga Dwell
'The Flash' in a Pan
Angelica Jade Bastién Vulture
A Connoisseur of Uncertainty
Jackson Lears Commonweal Magazine
When Your Local Government Goes Broke
Daniel DiSalvo City Journal
The Rise of the Unabomber Right
Sohrab Ahmari New Statesman
Everyone’s as Bonkers as the Unabomber Now
Brendan O'Neill spiked
Elizabeth Bishop’s Poem of Wavering Wanderlust
Danny Heitman WSJ
Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor, Dies at 92
Robert D. McFadden The New York Times


Friday, June 16
Eat, Pray, Get Cancelled
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Playing Ball
Rachel B. Glaser The Paris Review
Jim Dine’s Bathrobe
Jeremy Sigler Tablet Magazine
Buyer Beware
Lee Trepanier Law & Liberty
An Interview with Sophie Hughes
Narciso Novogratz Cleveland Review of Books
Anti-Modern Anti-Semitism
Tara Isabella Burton Mosaic
How Woke Caused Cultural Decadence
Richard Hanania Richard Hanania's Newsletter
Brains on Drugs
John Semley The Baffler
Being Human
Emina Melonic Chronicles
Paul Schrader’s Unlikely Optimism
Vikram Murthi The Nation
On Jon Lauck’s “The Good Country”
Bradley J. Birzer Imaginative Conservative
'The Beatles' Will Release One Last Song
Sarah Kuta Smithsonian
Ian Penman on Freud, Foucault, and Fassbinder
Sarah Nicole Prickett Interview
Between Waking and Dreaming in Kafka’s Diaries
Ross Benjamin Aeon Magazine
Homeric Hallucinations
Charlie Baker Antigone
Names in the Frame
Christopher Snowdon The Critic Magazine
The Clickbait Dictionary
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
Remembering Robert Gottlieb, Editor Extraordinaire
David Remnick The New Yorker
Glenda Jackson, Actress and Politician, Dies at 87
Benedict Nightingale NYT
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Phones and Whistles by Compact
Available this week: "The Late Americans" by Brandon Taylor
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