RealClearBooks Week of September 18, 2023 Archives

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Monday, September 18
In Defense of Voracious Reading
Philip Bunn Law & Liberty
How Did He Get Away With It?
John Tierney City Journal
The Case Against RedZone
Graham Hillard Washington Examiner
Kenneth Branagh's Cinematic Universe for Adults
Miles Surrey The Ringer
Batman and the Masks We Wear
Blake Scott Ball The Bulwark
A Sparkle in Time
David Meir Grossman Tablet
On the Beach
Peter Tonguette Fusion
The Rolling Stones Redefine Political Anger
Armond White National Review
Mr. Badger's Family History
Jude Russo The Lamp
A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
Ruby LaRocca The Free Press
The Curse of the Cool Girl Novelist
Charlotte Stroud New Statesman
The Boundless Creativity of Wayne Shorter
Max Mitchell Engelsberg Ideas
Fall Books
Multiple authors The Paris Review
Tom Wolfe’s Worldview Came Into Focus In 'New York'
Christopher Bonanos Vulture
Makings of a Hollywood Power Couple
Karl Salzmann Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, September 19
Between Rationality and Passion
Matthew Gasda RealClearBooks
All the Images Will Disappear
Tobi Haslett Harper's
The Early Days of American English
Rosemarie Ostler Lapham's Quarterly
Florida Has Become a Zoo
Benji Jones Vox
How Larry McMurtry Defined the Idea of Texas
Rachel Monroe The New Yorker
Of Monsters and Men
Richard M. Reinsch II Law & Liberty
Why Are Public Intellectuals Condescending?
Becca Rothfeld Yale Review
Jann Wenner and the Problem with Poptimism
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Russell Brand’s Sexual Apocalypse
Jenny McCartney UnHerd
Apocalypse-Proof
Zach Mortice Places Journal
The Indispensable Institution
Kay S. Hymowitz City Journal
Inescapable Disparities
Hannah Gal Quillette
Can 'Dune' Save the World?
Ryan Britt Esquire
The Death of Late Night as We Once Knew It
Joe Concha The Messenger
How I Fell in Love With Serge Gainsbourg
James Marriott The Times
Mother Nature Returns
Spencer Klavan Spencer’s Substack


Wednesday, September 20
Substack Can Redeem Online Journalism
Charlie Tidmarsh RealClearBooks
Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Lynn Steger Strong Esquire
Watching Girls Die Online
Hadley Freeman The Free Press
Enemy Territory: Fear and Desire
Christian Lorentzen Metrograph
Anne Enright Stays Inside the Work
Anne Enright LitHub
Norman Manea’s Exiled Shadow
David Mikics Tablet
John Waters Is Ready for His Hollywood Closeup
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
Two Roads to Woke
Eric Kaufmann Law & Liberty
Family Punditry
Alana Pockros The Baffler
Online Word Games Are Ruining My Life
Brian Phillips The Ringer
Olivia Rodrigo Is So Over Heartbreak
Angie Martoccio Rolling Stone
The Undoing of a Great American Band
James Parker The Atlantic
The Soul of Civility
Alexandra Hudson Publishers Weekly
Cities: An Engine of Progress and Civilization
Samuel Gregg Acton Institute
Bari Weiss Derangement Syndrome Is Real
Meghan Daum The Unspeakable
The Male Loneliness Epidemic
Shannon Carpenter CNN


Thursday, September 21
The Misfit
John Lingan The Nation
On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer
Tracy Daugherty LitHub
Zadie Smith Puts the Novel on Trial
Lynn Steger Strong New Republic
What I Learned Losing 70 Pounds
Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring
We Should Still Love Kojak
Casey Chalk Law & Liberty Exclusive
Can You Find God in a Bikini?
Olivia Reingold The Free Press
Jann Wenner vs. Tokenism
Armond White National Review
How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer
Emily Greenwood Yale Review
Dan Patrick Still Loves the Grind of Sports Radio
Pete Croatto GQ
Who Needs Plot When You Have Vibes?
Caelan McMichael Elle
When Denis Villeneuve Took Hollywood by Storm
Miles Surrey The Ringer
An Interview with Yascha Mounk
Jonathan Kay Quillette
The Abnormal as the New Normal
Roger Kimball New Criterion
Colorado and New Mexico Are Fighting a War Over Green Chile
Alex Heard Outside


Friday, September 22
Vintage Nirvana
Alan Siegel The Ringer
Lana Del Rey Forgives You
Mikey O'Connell Hollywood Reporter
Leonard Cohen at Queen’s Park
Kenneth Sherman Tablet
How Comic Books Became Classics
Stephanie Burt The New Yorker
The Lies of Trauma Merchants
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
On 'The Enchanters' by James Ellroy
Christian Lorentzen Financial Times
On Blurbs
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Rereading Clarice Lispector
Julia Kornberg Jewish Review of Books
The Real Fight at the Heart of Netflix's Wrestlers
Brady Langmann Esquire
The Wheel of Time: A Postmodern LOTR?
Titus Techera Acton Institute
What Psychedelics Can Teach Us About Play
Ross Ellenhorn Time
Ram’s Horns and Church Bells
Jack Fowler Philanthropy Daily
Some Good News About Your Malaise
Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic
On Jaroslav Hašek
Robert Rubsam Cleveland Review of Books
Lyndon Johnson’s Supreme Court machinations
James Piereson New Criterion
Can 'Wildcat' do Flannery O’Connor justice?
Jessica Hooten Wilson DC Examiner
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: 10 Blocks by City Journal
Available this week: "The Fraud" by Zadie Smith
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