RealClearBooks Week of July 24, 2023 Archives

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Monday, July 24
Joseph Epstein’s Brief for the Novel
Gary Saul Morson Commentary
Don’t Hate the Barbie Girl, Hate the Barbie World
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Great Memoirists Lie: On Caroline Calloway’s “Scammer”
Anna Dorn LARB
A Skimmer, Not a Plumber
Nic Rowan The American Conservative
Oppenheimer’s Passenger
Aaron Gwyn Spectator World
Double Reality
Jessi Jezewska Stevens The Point
The New Cynicism of 'Final Fantasy XVI'
Shawn Phillip Cooper Law & Liberty
Male Politicians Dress Like Crap
Derek Guy Politico Magazine
Fifty Years of 'American Graffiti'
Jenna Stocker A Pilgrim’s Progress
Political Incorrectness Is Killing Comedy
Ben Sixsmith Washington Examiner
Tony Bennett’s 10 Essential Songs
Rob Tannenbaum New York Times
Feeling the Sting of Time with PJ Harvey
Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker
‘Oppenheimer’ Review
Sonny Bunch Bulwark
The Many Enigmas of 'Oppenheimer'
Jorge Cotte The Nation
The Coming of the A-Bomb
Michael Auslin WSJ
Cloak and Swagger
Reuel Marc Gerecht Washington Free Beacon
The Pessimistic Case for the Future
Michael Anton Compact
Derek Malcolm, Guardian Film Critic, Dies at 91
Catherine Shoard The Guardian
Josephine Chaplin, Actress and Daughter of Charlie, Dies at 74
Mike Barnes THR


Tuesday, July 25
America’s Pop-Culture Armageddon
David Samuels UnHerd
Socialism or Barbie-ism
Nina Power Compact
Unholy Hollywood
J. C. Scharl Modern Age
Christopher Nolan’s Big Bang
Elliot Ackerman The Free Press
For Ruth Madievsky, Voice Is Everything
Diana Ruzova The Millions
'Oppenheimer' and the Dharma of Death
John Semley Wired
Grief, Pizza, and the Power of Food to Evoke Memory
Adam Dalva Literary Hub
Get Woke, Go Broke?
James E. Hartley Law & Liberty Exclusive
Spiritual Fitness
Sammy Kanter Tablet
The Miracle of “The Brothers Karamazov”
Jennifer Wilson The New Yorker
The Bad Review Reading List
Editors 4Columns
The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction
J. Arthur Boyle Verso
Can Ballet Survive the Culture Wars?
Rupert Christiansen The Spectator
Mysteries of the Owl and Octopus
Kathleen Jamie New Statesman
Caroline Calloway Sets the Record Straight
Kara Kennedy The Spectator World
The New Hellenism
Crispin Sartwell Los Angeles Review of Books


Wednesday, July 26
Walter Kirn on How America Lost the Plot
Matt Ellison Palladium
How Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World
Patrick Radden Keefe The New Yorker
The Lost-and-Found Art of Self-Branding
Emina Melonic Acton Institute
Unearthing a Forgotten Genius
Lee Oser Law & Liberty
The Elegant Extremist
John Self The Critic Magazine
The Barbie Republic
Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield The Pamphleteer
The Surprising Restraint of Christopher Nolan
Miles Surrey The Ringer
Farewell, Dan Snyder
John Hirschauer The American Conservative
A Novel Guide
Anonymous The Fence
Another Round with Norman Mailer
Jesse Tisch Jewish Review of Books
‘To Stop the Dead From Dying’
Sean Durns Washington Free Beacon
Navigating the Next Political Crisis
Dominic Green WSJ
The Painful Truth of Population Decline
Christopher Briem RealClearPennsylvania
Conservatives Are Getting Barbie Wrong
Jack Butler National Review
What We Have Done to Hamlet
Micah Mattix Washington Examiner


Thursday, July 27
Twitter Is Forever
Eric Spitznagel The Free Press
‘Oppenheimer’ Explores Heroic and Horrific Powers
Spencer Klavan The Federalist
Cooking with Elizabeth David
Valerie Stivers The Paris Review
Henry Threadgill’s Life in Music
Nate Wooley The Baffler
The Culture Is Lit and I Had a Ball: On HBO’s “The Idol”
Sophie Frances Kemp LARB
Cringe-Worthy Fiction
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Messi in Miami Feels Bittersweet
Jody Rosen The New Yorker
Barbie: A Millennial Mom Movie
Helen Andrews The American Conservative
The Ambivalent Destroyer
David Mikics Tablet
The Digital Forces Commandeering Human Life
Reema Jadeja-Reed Law & Liberty
Tracy McGrady Wants to Build the UFC of Basketball
Howard Beck GQ
Why I Won’t Grow Up
Cosmo Landesman The Spectator World
What Happened to Peter Handke?
David Schurman Wallace The Nation
Dare to Be Brilliant
Brad Strotten Quillette
The Book Behind Oppenheimer
Gal Beckerman The Atlantic
Political Incorrectness is Killing Comedy
Ben Sixsmith Washington Examiner
Sinead O’Connor, Outspoken Singer, Is Dead at 56
Ben Sisario & Joe Coscarelli NYT


Friday, July 28
The Truth is Out There
Emina Melonic RealClearBooks
Barbie McWorld
Riva-Melissa Tez IM—1776
The Internet’s Greatest Grifter
Samuel Rutter Cleveland Review of Books
Barbenheimer and the End of the American Century
James Duesterberg The Point
The Muddled Feminism of Greta Gerwig’s 'Barbie'
Tarpley Hitt The Nation
Ozempic: The Death of the Deadly Sins?
Mark Mutz & Richard Gunderman Law & Liberty
How the Saudi Empire Bought Football
Jonathan Wilson UnHerd
The Music World Remembers Sinéad O’Connor
Bria McNeal Esquire
What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
Laura Hartenberger Noema
Why "What We Do in the Shadows" Works
Alexander Larman The Spectator World
The Case for the Washington Football Team
Nic Rowan The American Conservative
Indiana Jones and the Indefinite Culture War
The Ivy Exile Substack
The Perils of Highly Processed Food
Adam Gopnik The New Yorker
How Aimé Leon Dore Took New York
Jon Caramanica The New York Times
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Artificial Persuasion by City Journal
Available this week: "Self-Made" by Tara Isabella Burton
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