RealClearBooks Week of July 31, 2023 Archives

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Monday, July 31
Saudi Arabia Is Spending Billions on Western Sports
Josh Glancy The Free Press
I Went to Margaritaville in Times Square
Magdalene J. Taylor Vice
Bringing Fire from the Gods
David Krugler Law & Liberty
Why Men Love Ken
Louise Perry Maiden Mother Matriarch
The Arrogance of Dismissing Aliens
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
Jordan Castro is a Novelist
Teddy Duncan Bridggge
An Activist Practice
Becca Rothfeld New Left Review
What Is Greta Gerwig Trying to Tell Us?
Allison P. Davis Vulture
Literary Culture Is Purity Culture
ARX-Han Decentralized Fiction
A Requiem for the Dead
Sadie Sartini Garner The Ringer
'Barbie' Is a Movie for Our Time
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Sinéad O’Connor Was Always Herself
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
Overthinking the Greatness of Gatsby
Tim Rice Washington Free Beacon
Andrew Tate Is Leading Young Men Astray
Liam Siegler National Review
American Prometheus
Benjamin Braddock IM—1776
Pathetic Fallacy
Elaine Wang The Point


Tuesday, August 1
Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
Ari Schulman The New Atlantis
Hollywood’s Slo-Mo Self-Sabotage
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
The Catholic Prophet of Inequality
Benjamin Studebaker Compact
Why Novels Are a Richer Experience Than Movies
Erik Hoel Nautilus
Atomic Sad Boy
Zachariah Webb The Baffler
Record Master Marshall Chess
David Hershkovits Tablet
115 Degrees, Las Vegas Strip
Meg Bernhard The Paris Review
Delta Force
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
How Trauma Became America's Favorite Diagnosis
Danielle Carr NYMag
To Defend Shakespeare Is to Defend the West
Richard M. Reinsch II Acton Institute
Barbie Boys in a Gender-Confused World
Stephen G. Adubato Newsweek
Conservative Arguments for an Un-modern America
Becca Rothfeld WaPo
Barbenheimer Exposes Hollywood
David Dayen The American Prospect
The Czech Socialist Literature That Influenced Kundera
Ondrej Slacalek Jacobin
How Novels Can Help the Mental Health Crisis
Mark Judge Restoring America
That Cool New Bookstore? It’s a Barnes & Noble
Ben Cohen WSJ
Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman Actor, Dead at 70
Brooke Steinberg New York Post


Wednesday, August 2
Why Kundera Never Went Home
Petr Drulák Compact
Lana Del Rey: A Great American Poet
Hannah Williams The New Statesman
The Strange Anti-Woke Case for Taylor Swift
Ross Barkan Political Currents
The Best Short-Story Writer of His Generation?
Lynn Steger Strong LA Times
Colson Whitehead’s Ode to 1970s New York
Evan Kindley The New Republic
When Politics Becomes Therapy
Ronald W. Dworkin Law & Liberty
The Gamification of Reading
Greta Rainbow Shondaland
Barbie’s Checkmate
Kay S. Hymowitz City Journal
The Woman Behind Borges
Jessica Sequeira The Dial
Lionel Messi Is Doing Just Fine in Miami, Thank You
Brian Phillips The Ringer
The Philosophy of Failure
CC Jones Cleveland Review of Books
A Moral Hazard for the Constitution
David Lewis Schaefer Washington Free Beacon
Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did
A.O. Scott NYT
How the Inventor of the First Chatbot Turned against AI
Ben Tarnoff The Guardian
Around the World With William F. Buckley Jr.
Matthew Continetti WSJ
Rules for Reading
Michael Dirda The Washington Post
Why “Ugly” Paintings Are So Popular
Ayanna Dozier Artsy


Thursday, August 3
We Ought to Have More Creatures
River Page The White Pill
Did David Foster Wallace Predict the Future?
Sarah Ditum UnHerd
The Wit of Wes Anderson
Alexander Larman Engelsberg Ideas
The New Cynicism of Final Fantasy XVI
S. P. Cooper Law & Liberty Exclusive
Josh Kline’s Conceptual Climate Hysteria
Adam Lehrer Compact
Empty Suits
Bailey Trela The Baffler
Chelsea Hodson's Publishing Moxie
Sophia June Nylon
How 'American Graffiti' Invented Classic Rock
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
On Translation as Conversation
Robin Myers Los Angeles Review of Books
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Eye
T.J. Clark The Nation
I Keep Writing the Same Poptimism Piece
Freddie deBoer Substack
Milan Kundera’s Sexual Revolutions
Christopher Caldwell New Statesman
David Samuels and Walter Kirn's Highway to Nowhere
Ash Carter Air Mail
When Emo Conquered the Mainstream
Peter C. Baker The New Yorker
Carel Fabritius’s Rare Bird
Willard Spiegelman WSJ
We Tried to Create AI Fairy Tale Art. Results Were Mixed.
Kim Schmidt Orion
Life Has Always Been a Performance
Rhian Sasseen The Atlantic


Friday, August 4
Robert Plunket Is Fine With Being Rediscovered
Brandon Sanchez Vulture
You Can’t Trust the AI Hype
Ash Milton Palladium
Pee-wee Herman’s Subversive Legacy
Oliver Bateman Splice Today
Walton Goggins, TV's Favorite Complicated Man
Brandy Jensen GQ
The History of American Prison Music
Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project
The Loneliness of Mimetic Desire
John-Paul Heil Law & Liberty
Pink and Plastic Eden
Rachel Gilinski Jewcy Magazine
Sarah Bernhardt and the Invention of Celebrity
Dominic Green Washington Examiner
In the Spirit of the Lord
David Cohen Quillette
Coded to Kill
Marschall Runge RealClearBooks
On “Buffalo in 50 Maps”
Kelly K. Ferguson Cleveland Review of Books
Weird Stories, and a Big Request
Chuck Palahniuk Plot Spoiler
Inside California's Most Iconic Outdoor Bookshop
Rachel Schnalzer Stewart LAT
Isn’t London Hell?
Seamus Perry London Review of Books
Curse of Cane
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review
Giving Form to an Abstractionist’s Career
Peter Plagens WSJ
Persistence of Mission
A. S. Hamrah The New York Review of Books
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: America's Failing Schools by City Journal
Available this week: "Self-Made" by Tara Isabella Burton
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