RealClearBooks Week of July 17, 2023 Archives

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Monday, July 17
Bruce Springsteen Crosses the Picket Line
Jesse Adams Washington Examiner
Driving Like Ayn Rand
G. Patrick Lynch Law & Liberty Exclusive
On “What’s Wrong With Men” Discourse
Conor Fitzgerald The Fitzstack
The Novel's Only Morality
John Pistelli Inner Life
Escape From Irony
Dan Hitchens First Things
Cormac McCarthy & the Vulnerable Style
Patrick Nathan The Hobbyhorse
A Breather, in Colombia
Andrew Boryga Dwell
On Rereading Eric Ambler
John Wilson Prufrock
A Movement to Where?
Pierre d’Alancaisez The Critic
The Woman Who Goes to Dangerous Places
John Waters RealClearDefense
Barbie's Beauty Standards
Mary Harrington Reactionary Feminist
The Life, Death—And Afterlife—of Literary Fiction
Will Blythe Esquire
This Charming Man
Dana Kessler Tablet
Fourth Round at Wimbledon
Krithika Varagur The Paris Review
John McPhee Looks Back at Books Not Written
Mark Oppenheimer Washington Post
Thomas Macaulay, Liberal Futurist
Joshua Fagan Compact
Reichs, From First to Third
Josef Joffe WSJ
Love's Work
Lucy Jakub The New York Review of Books


Tuesday, July 18
The Complicated Afterlives of Roberto Bolaño
Aaron Shulman LitHub
The Greatest Show on Earth
Peter Juul The Liberal Patriot
Lament for Susan
Blake Smith Tablet
The Final Dead Show: Part One
Sophie Haigney The Paris Review
The Story of UFC
Oliver Bateman Washington Examiner
'Blood Meridian' is Cormac McCarthy’s Masterpiece
Aaron Gwyn Spectator World
A Return to Heroism
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
The Dark Side of Self-Making
Tara Isabella Burton Persuasion
Max Porter Turns the Trauma Plot on Its Head
Rachel Connolly The New Republic
The New Secession
James Piereson New Criterion
The Credibility Crisis in Psychology
Pamela Paresky Habits of a Free Mind
An Action Movie About Scientists Talking
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
The Future of U.S. Women’s Soccer Is Here
Mirin Fader The Ringer
Fight!
Marc Andreessen The Free Press
How Much Do Intellectuals Matter?
Richard Hanania Richard Hanania's Newsletter
When Presentation Becomes Personality
Joel J. Miller Miller’s Book Review
Joseph Losey’s ‘The Servant’: That Touch of Crass
David Mermelstein WSJ
Jane Birkin: Made in England, Forged in France
Elisabeth Vincentelli New York Times
7 Songs That Capture Jane Birkin’s Beguiling Magic
Ben Cardew Pitchfork
Ancient Rites in Madrid
Christopher Northrup The Critic Magazine


Wednesday, July 19
Colson Whitehead Knows the Secret to Reinvention
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
Could You Beat Elon Musk in a Fight?
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
Country Music’s Culture Wars
Emily Nussbaum The New Yorker
On 'Selling Out'
Dan Brooks The Guardian
The Twenty-First Century Category Error
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Benny Safdie Steps into the Spotlight
Gabriella Paiella GQ
The Final Dead Shows: Part Two
Sophie Haigney Paris Review
The Industrial Revolution Never Happened
Emmet Penney Praxis Society
Love in the Time of Sickle Cell Disease
Krithika Varagur Harper's
Everyone in America is Totally Insane
John Ganz Unpopular Front
The Eyes of the Storm
Hannah Gal Quillette
Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Nazli Koca
Elizabeth Ellen Hobart
A Modern, Ancient, Eternal Tale
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
Can Novels Make Us Better People?
Jacob Brogan The Washington Post
Writers Where They Work
Erica Ackerberg The New York Times
Those Golden Years
Haydn Middleton The Critic Magazine
The Mysteries of Late Style
John Banville New Statesman
Beyond Her Ken
Kyle Smith WSJ


Thursday, July 20
The Closeup Agency
Amanda Fortini Pennyroyal
Chill in the East
Calder Walton RealClearBooks
On the Aesthetic Turn
Anastasia Berg The Point
Barbie Is Fight Club for Women
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The “Scammer” and the Scammed
Tyler Foggatt The New Yorker
On Cormac McCarthy and the Anxiety of Influence
William Giraldi The Lamp
Welcome to the MAGA Hamptons!
Max Meyer The Free Press
The Impossible Story of the Bomb
Hal Sundt The Ringer
Stop Trying to Have the Perfect Vacation
Rebecca Jennings Vox
The Fictionalized Drug Trip
Daisy Alioto Dirt
Conservatives on Climate Change
Judge Glock Law & Liberty
Bob Ross, Populist Artist
Julia Friedman Quillette
The A(braham) Bomb
Walter Russell Mead Tablet
The Five Best Books on Genius
Patrick Mackie WSJ
Christopher Nolan Delivers His Masterpiece
Matthew Jackson The A.V. Club
Pasolini on Caravaggio’s Artificial Light
Pier Paolo Pasolini The Paris Review
Imaginary Current Events
Chris Marker The Baffler


Friday, July 21
My Beautiful Friend
Grazie Sophia Christie The Point
On 'Serpico'
Christian Lorentzen Metrograph
Fall Books
Micah Mattix Prufrock
In Defense of NPC Livestreams
Magdalene J. Taylor Vice
Jeff Teague, the Realest Realist
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
The Ben and Jerry’s Lifestyle
River Page Pirate Wires
America’s Regional Culinary Traditions Are at Risk
Jenna Stocker Spectator World
UFOs and America’s Conspiracy Moment
Peter Gietl Return
On Robert Christgau’s “Is It Still Good to Ya?”
Eli Schoop Cleveland Review of Books
What’s the Matter With Barbie?
David Sims The Atlantic
The Many Eras of Barbie
Katie Baker The Ringer
How the Internet Went to Threads
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Why Generative AI Won’t Disrupt Books
Elizabeth Minkel WIRED
Breaking Taboos with Clay
Josephine Bartosch The Critic Magazine
Ruler Roulette
Warren Frye The New Criterion
Meet the Beatles
Ted Widmer WSJ
Tony Bennett, Master Pop Vocalist, Dies at 96
Carmel Dagan Variety
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: A Scandal at Vice by Blocked and Reported
Available this week: "Self-Made" by Tara Isabella Burton
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