RealClearBooks Week of August 14, 2023 Archives

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Monday, August 14
Miami's Red Mirage
Alex Perez Pirate Wires
The Renegade
Carlos Acevedo City Journal
Lana Del Rey’s Dissident Femininity
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
The Problem of Nature Writing
Jonathan Franzen The New Yorker
Light Came in as a Flood
Tara Isabella Burton Plough
Why Did Tom Hanks Write a Novel?
Adam Nayman The Nation
Lost in the Cosmos
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
When a Master of the Short Story Went Long
Nick Ripatrazone The Bulwark
Taylor Swift Unites America
Evan Gardner The Free Press
Barbie the Existentialist
Santiago Ramos Commonweal Magazine
The Indispensable Novel
Jonathan Leaf National Review
Deneen’s Assault on Vitalism
Howe Whitman III & Evan Myers First Things
Rock of Ages
Benjamin Kerstein Quillette
Girl Ray’s Nostalgia Trip
David Meir Grossman Tablet
Cormac McCarthy’s Art of War
Nick Burns New Statesman
Make More Movies Set on Old Wooden Ships
Miles Surrey The Ringer
How ‘The Last Waltz’ Became One of Rock’s Greatest Docs
Jim Farber NYT
Talk of the Town
Emina Melonic Splice Today
Lou Reed on Making an Unlistenable Album
Allan Jones LitHub
Audiobooks and The Recovery of Leisure Reading
Elayne Allen Public Discourse


Tuesday, August 15
Laughing and Screaming
Justin Lee RealClearBooks
Is Pop Crave the Future of Political Journalism?
Christian Paz Vox
Hip-Hop: The Last Bastion of American Freedom
David Samuels UnHerd
The Weird World of Cruise Ships
Wessie du Toit The Pathos of Things
Corporate Tyranny
Jon Askonas Plough
Transcending Technopessimism
Rachel Lomasky Law & Liberty
Back to Nebraska With Bruce
Bill Kauffman The American Conservative
When Trucks Fly
Zach Helfand The New Yorker
Robbie Robertson: Genius of the New Americana
Bryan Appleyard Engelsberg Ideas
Hip-Hop Is 50 Years Old
Justin Charity The Ringer
An Essayist’s Defense of the Novel
Christopher J. Scalia The Dispatch
How Seth Rollins Became the WWE’s Undisputed Fashion King
Yang-Yi Goh GQ
Schrödinger’s Cage Match
Charlie Warzel The Atlantic
The Captive Cardinal
Flagg Taylor Washington Free Beacon
Among Saints & Skeletons
Suzanna Murawski The New Criterion
The Mind of James V. Schall
Daniel J. Mahoney Intercollegiate Studies Institute
The Smear Campaign against JK Rowling
James Dreyfus Spiked
Infinite Joyce: Prolific Oates Takes On Dead Wallace
Gideon Leek The Village Voice


Wednesday, August 16
My Generation
Justin E.H. Smith Harper's
Taking the Measure of Man
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
Unraveling the Secrets of the Barbieverse
Kat Rosenfield Slate
Why Bill Watterson Vanished
Nic Rowan The American Conservative
The Poisoned Well
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Taylor Swift’s Tragic Appeal
Mary Harrington UnHerd
The Immortality of 'Enter the Dragon'
Eric Francisco Esquire
What Machines Want
Duncan Reyburn Return
A Doll’s House
Jamie Hood The Baffler
Master of the Minimal
Nathan Dragon Southwest Review
Tyranny, Inc. and the Future of American Labor
Samuel Goldman Acton Institute
Why Art Matters, Country Music Edition
Roger Kimball The Epoch Times
August Beach Reads
Multiple authors Tablet
Stop Asking "Friends" to Confront Racism
David Odyssey Cracks in Postmodernity
What It Takes to Be a Public Intellectual
J. Howard Rosier The Nation
Battle of Bricks and Clicks
Marc Levinson WSJ
Finding Beauty in the Despair of Insomnia
Genevieve Gaunt The Spectator World
Keith Waldrop, Award-Winning Poet, Dies at 90
Neil Genzlinger The New York Times
Remembering Christopher Carduff: 1956–2023
The Editors Library of America


Thursday, August 17
Afraid of the Novel
John Pistelli RealClearBooks Symposium
An Antidote to Our Disenchanted Age
Stephen G. Adubato RealClearBooks Symposium
The Indispensable Novel
John G. Grove RealClearBooks Symposium
Are You My Customer?
Catherine Liu Damage
Big Rigs and Back Roads
Sean Thor Conroe GQ
Private Tyrants, Public Remedies
Philip D. Bunn Front Porch Republic
Corrosive Curation
Lara Brown The Critic
Stop Swiping. Start Settling.
Rob Henderson The Free Press
Morning Star
Trevor Quirk The Baffler
Robbie Robertson Was Everyman
Geoffrey Clarfield Tablet
Thirst for Genius
Daniel Miller IM—1776
A Close Listen to “Rich Men North of Richmond”
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker
An Interview with Alicia Kennedy
Jason McBride Hazlitt
'Barbie' Is About Being Human
Fred Bauer Rounding Up
What Is Time For?
Zena Hitz Plough
Arizona Futurism
Peter Ryan Created


Friday, August 18
An America of Secrets
Jon Askonas The New Atlantis
Irish Writers Are Dominating Literature
Rachel Connolly GQ
Why Men Need Bad-Boy Literature
Nicholas Harris UnHerd
The Lawn Is Resting: A Visit to Balzac’s House
Bailey Trela The Paris Review
The Only Reason to Explore Space
Marko Jukic Palladium
Effective Altruism Is a Short Circuit
Mary Townsend The Bulwark
On Jorie Graham’s “To 2040”
Christian Wessels Cleveland Review of Books
A Warning for Oliver Anthony
Bradley Devlin The American Conservative
Zadie Smith Is Back With An Epic And Emotional New Novel
Zing Tsjeng Vogue
Does AI Just Suck?
Freddie deBoer Substack
Who’s Afraid of Lorne Michaels?
Seth Simons Longreads
We Don’t Need a New Twitter
Cal Newport The New Yorker
What the Heck Happened in 2012?
Erik Hoel The Intrinsic Perspective
Soccer’s Couch-Potato Popularity
Steven Malanga City Journal
On the Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books
Lewis Buzbee LitHub
Linsanity and the Art of Escape
Yumi Lee The Baffler
Prince Charming Is Cancelled
Douglas Murray The Spectator
To All the Demon Lovers
Nicolas Rapold Air Mail
A New Role for Werner Herzog: The Voice of A.I. Poetry
Joseph Bernstein NYT
The Covert Campaign against Field Sports
William Moore The Spectator
On Zadie Smith and the Gen X Novel
Adam Kirsch Harper's Magazine
How ‘Jaws' Became a Living Nightmare
Anthony Breznican Vanity Fair
Christopher Carduff, WSJ Books Editor, Dies at 66
Sophie Stewart Publishers Weekly
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Counting the Cost by City Journal
Available this week: "The Border Simulator" by Gabriel Dozal
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