RealClearBooks Week of August 7, 2023 Archives

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Monday, August 7
The Burning of America's Library
Kat Rosenfield Pirate Wires
The Zoomer Question
Isaac Wilks American Affairs
Remembering Martin Amis
Jared Marcel Pollen Verso
Vacation Spots to Suit Every Political Type
Catherine Kim Politico Magazine
Bench Pressing Tolstoy
Lee Oser Law & Liberty
Unspeakable Wonder
Matthew Walther The Lamp Magazine
Who Was Barbie?
Multiple authors n+1
On NBA Twitter
Kylie Cheung Dirt
The Ideal Man Exists
Christine Emba Wisdom of Crowds
Cody Rhodes Is Ready to Capture the WWE World Title
Sean Neumann GQ
Classic Cars: Driving the American Dream
Jenna Stocker The American Spectator
Why Read John Milton?
Ed Simon The Millions
On Sontag
Riley Moore Quillette
An Indie It Girl Grows Up
David Meir Grossman Tablet
Accommodations for Dictators
Malcolm Forbes Washington Examiner
Christopher Nolan and the Contradictions of Oppenheimer
Dennis Overbye NYT
Eternal Truths Cast in Bronze
Julia Fischer WSJ
Transparent
Wilfred M. McClay The Hedgehog Review


Tuesday, August 8
Christopher Nolan's Sleight of Hand
Lafayette Lee IM—1776
Baseball Finally Feels Vital Again
Ross Barkan New York Magazine
Trump Against the Machine
Alexander Nazaryan Compact
A Generation Alone
Sam Negus Law & Liberty Exclusive
Jenny Odell Interviewed
Isabel Ling Bomb Magazine
When the Winds Turn
Jack Hanson Commonweal
Fans Waited 31 Years for His Next Novel. It’s Here.
John Williams Washington Post
The Stunning U.S. Exit from the World Cup
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Brandon Taylor’s Fiction of Class and Campuses
Sarah Chihaya The Nation
Barbie’s Quiet Rebuke of Transhumanism
Elayne Allen Public Discourse
William Friedkin, ‘The Exorcist’ Director, Dies at 87
Carmel Dagan Variety
What’s Going On at TCM?
Maureen Lee Lenker Entertainment Weekly
Wes Andersonville
Bill Asher Splice Today
A New Translation of ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
Sam Sacks WSJ
The Obama Factor
David Samuels Tablet Magazine
How Do You Purge An Elite?
George Scialabba New Statesman
Men and Marriage, Revisited
Nick Solheim The American Conservative


Wednesday, August 9
Aristotle and the Three Graces
Mary P. Nichols RealClearBooks
Nolan’s Visual Power Unleashed in 'Oppenheimer'
Noah Gould RealClearBooks
Lorrie Moore Laughs Wild Amid Severest Woe
David Yaffe Tablet
What Does ‘Trending’ Even Mean?
Katherine Dee Return
The Work of the Content Game
Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work
A Conversation with Percival Everett
George Makari Los Angeles Review of Books
Counter Culture
Rhian Sasseen Poetry Foundation
Laws Can’t Cure Loneliness
Auguste Meyrat Law & Liberty
Alienation and the Human Being
Samuel Kronen Alien Nation
Booklash
Multiple authors PEN America
The Jerk Aficionados
Alan Siegel The Ringer
The Upsides of Empire
Douglas Murray Washington Free Beacon
The Great Libraries of Rome
Fabio Fernandes Aeon Magazine
Walter Benjamin, Podcaster
Peter E. Gordon The Nation
Demolition Men
Nicholas Barber Literary Review
Liberalism’s Obituarist
Andy Owen The Critic Magazine
Simon & Schuster Sold
Elizabeth A. Harris & Lauren Hirsch & Benjamin Mullin NYT
William Friedkin Was “Undoubtedly a Genius”
Aaron Couch The Hollywood Reporter
Steven Soderbergh Deconstructs Recent Experiments
Nick Newman Polygon
Are Libraries the Future of Media?
Kate Harloe Popula
In Defense of the Arts Council
Igor Toronyi-Lalic The Spectator


Thursday, August 10
The Sit-Down: Walter Kirn
Max Savage Levenson Montana Free Press
Going Live
Mitch Therieau n+1
For Poet Alex Dimitrov, Nothing Is Hopeless
Maggie Coughlan Vanity Fair
Shifting From Powerlessness to Power
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Great American Novelist
Laura Miller Slate
A Cold Email Got Me My Job
Olivia Reingold The Free Press
On Alexandra Chang’s ‘Tomb Sweeping’
Jenny Wu The Millions
The Authors Helping ‘Sad Girl Lit’ Grow Up
Sarah Manavis The Guardian
Paris Booksellers Prepare for the Olympics
Jacqueline Feldman The Paris Review
Are You Grieving?
Casey Chalk The American Conservative
“Hangman” Turns the Novel of Migration Upside Down
Julian Lucas The New Yorker
The Cursed Outposts of America’s Empire
Lily Lynch UnHerd
Robbie Robertson, Leader of The Band, Dies at 80
Chris Morris Variety
Journalling Won’t Save You
Grazie Sophia Christie New Statesman
A Trove of Vintage Restaurant Ephemera
Anne Ewbank Atlas Obscura
Richard Kelly on Creative Heartbreak
Nick Newman The Film Stage
Nine Provocative William Friedkin Movies to Stream
Scott Tobias NYT
The Ultra-processed Food Scare
Christopher Snowdon The Critic Magazine
Homer and His Iliad
Tim Whitmarsh Literary Review
Are Vikings Too White?
Douglas Murray The Spectator World


Friday, August 11
Miranda Devine, the Bidens' Gadfly
Charlie Tidmarsh RealClearBooks
Six Books Every Journalist Should Read
Matthew Continetti Washington Free Beacon
Clicks of Desire
Tara Isabella Burton The New Atlantis
Plastic People
Jane Hu Dissent Magazine
A Scrappy Defense of the Novel
John Wilson Prufrock
Chelsea Hodson Wants to Publish Weird Writers
Madeline Howard W Magazine
The Subversive Success of Alfred Hitchcock
Matt Hanson The Smart Set
Loser Mindset
John Hirschauer The American Conservative
On Eliza Clark’s “Boy Parts”
Umang Kalra Cleveland Review of Books
How the Car Came to LA
Brian Potter Construction Physics
William Friedkin on His Rise and Fall and Rise in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
A Six-Decade March
James Piereson New Criterion
Anna Netrebko Sues The Met
Paul du Quenoy City Journal
Pete Berg's Americana Is Becoming Something Else
Jack Holmes Esquire
The Best Books We Read This Week
Staff The New Yorker
The New Prophets of Empathy
Leo Kim The Baffler
A Brilliant Biography of an Elusive Genius
Daniel Johnson The Critic Magazine
"Inside the inferno": T. J. Clark on Pasolini
T.J. Clark & Dan Ward Verso
DJ Casper, 'Cha Cha Slide' Hitmaker, Dies at 58
Ben Beaumont-Thomas The Guardian
I Was Wrong About Trigger Warnings
Jill Filipovic The Atlantic
A Tragicomedy on the Making of 'Jaws'
Amy Fine Collins Air Mail
A Bottle of Château Maldon, Please
Jonathan Beckman Literary Review
August Wilson, a Theater Titan Who Spun Gold in Diners
Dwight Garner NYT
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: David Means Reads Lorrie Moore by The New Yorker
Available this week: "Tom Lake" by Ann Patchett
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