RealClearBooks Week of October 16, 2023 Archives

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Monday, October 16
The Meaning of Madonna
Michelle Orange The New Yorker
Rick Astley Is Back
Dave Holmes Esquire
The 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time
Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter
Poet and Nobel Laureate Louise Glück dies at 80
Scottie Andrew CNN
Slow Reader
Jude Russo The Lamp Magazine
Public Enemy Number One?
John O. McGinnis Law & Liberty
Social Media Platforms Hate the Written Word
Ross Barkan Political Currents
That Girl: On Kathleen Alcott’s “Emergency”
Greta Rainbow Cleveland Review of Books
Nobel Prizewinners Past and Present
John Wilson Prufrock
Five Questions That Will Define the 2023-24 NBA Season
Howard Beck The Ringer
'Halloween' at 45
Michael Kraus LitHub
Julia Fox Is Not Your Survivor
Elizabeth Nicholas The Cut
‘The Continental’ Review
Sonny Bunch The Bulwark
Review: ‘Escape to Florence’
Elizabeth Grace Matthew America Magazine
A Fresh and Tragic 'Iliad'
John Byron Kuhner National Review
Cancelling the Cancellers
Katrina Gulliver City Journal


Tuesday, October 17
True Crime Distorts the Truth about Crime
Kat Rosenfield Reason
The 20th Century, as Told by Martin Scorsese
John Wilmes The Ringer
‘Poptimism’ and the End of College Football
Steve Larkin The American Conservative
We Are All Fictosexuals Now
Katherine Dee UnHerd
Can a Donor Revolt Save American Universities?
Jacob Savage The Free Press
Inside Fran Lebowitz's Digitally Unbothered Life
Sophie Vershbow Esquire
Vital Energy in a Disenchanted World
Tara Isabella Burton Law & Liberty
Remembering Louise Glück (1943-2023)
Garth Greenwell To a Green Thought
Sly Stone Reflects on the Past and His New Memoir
Andrew R. Chow Time
The Eras Tour Is Intimate, Colossal, and Disappointing
Richard Brody New Yorker
Lou Reed Didn’t Want to Be King
Hannah Gold The Yale Review
A Birthday Salute to PG Wodehouse
Mike Kerrigan The Blaze
Plutocracy Left and Right
Gene Callahan Modern Age
Travis Kelce Is the NFL’s Taylor Swift
Will Leitch New York Magazine
In Remembrance of Louise Glück
Srikanth Reddy The Paris Review
How a Texas Tale Reinvented the Hollywood Film Industry
Jake M. This Is Texas


Wednesday, October 18
Martin Scorsese on “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Richard Brody The New Yorker
The Age of the Comedy Roast Is Over
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
This Couple Just Published a Nobel Winner
Jacob Brogan Washington Post
The Beckham Bent
Nicholas Quah Vulture
A Broken Machine
Adam Nayman The Ringer
How Did George Orwell Know?
John P. Rossi & John Rodden Acton Institute
Did the College Essay Remake Literature?
Carmen Petaccio Public Books
Whence Came Law?
Eric R. Claeys Law & Liberty
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Marc Andreessen a16z
Technocapital Is Eating My Brains
Santi Ruiz Regress Studies
We’re All Boomers Now
Nate Hochman The American Conservative
Why Was My Talk at a Medical Conference Canceled?
Vinay Prasad The Free Press
Twilight of the Heroes of Capitalism
David Roth Intelligencer


Thursday, October 19
The Old Curiosity Bookshop
Joseph Epstein Commentary
Taylor Swift’s Asylum Seekers
Armond White National Review
JG Ballard Was Not a Prophet
Mark Blacklock UnHerd
Old Gripes from the New Right
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
Martin Scorsese’s 81 Greatest Movie Characters, Ranked
Staff The Ringer
An Afternoon with Michel Houellebecq
David Engels The European Conservative
Television Isn’t Dead — Yet
Katherine Dee Return
I Changed My Mind about Problematic Male Authors
Amanda Perry The Walrus
Shedding Skin
Andrew Boryga Dwell
A Clean, Well-Ordered Place
Steve Yarbrough The American Scholar
Indiana Jones and the Weight of Glory
Hannah Long Plough
Is It Wrong to Cure Blindness?
Francesca Block The Free Press
Stop Whining About Baseball’s Playoff Format
Ross Barkan Intelligencer
Inside Ja Morant’s 18-Month Downfall
Baxter Holmes & Tim MacMahon ESPN
Against Remembrance: On Louise Glück
Elisa Gonzalez The Paris Review


Friday, October 20
When a Novelist Carries On What Another Started
Kristen Roupenian The New Yorker
Marty and Leo: An Essential Pairing
Adam Nayman The Ringer
What Madonna Can Teach Taylor Swift
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Movie Theaters Are Figuring Out a Way to Bring People Back
Sam Adams Slate
George Eliot and the Marriage Question
Michael Ledger-Lomas The Point
Take Me Out to the Data Field
Jack Christian Cleveland Review of Books
Forbidden Fruit
Alexander Sammon Harper's
Algernon Blackwood’s Exploratory Horror
Bill Ryan The Bulwark
The Poet Who Taught Me to Write Books
Meghan O'Rourke The Yale Review
The Terrorist Who Mistook His Life for a Movie
Marco Roth Tablet
Why Literary Elites Love POC Pain
Alex Perez Compact
Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files
Nick Gillespie Reason
The B-52’s Were Too Weird to Mess With
Devon Ivie Vulture
An Interview with Rachel Aviv
Naomi Skwarna Hazlitt
Why Do We Persist With Opera?
Lola Salem The Critic
Martin Scorsese’s Soulless Epic
Kyle Smith Wall Street Journal
Winging It with the New Backcountry Barnstormers
Brad Rassler Outside
JM Coetzee’s Cold Realism
Ann Manov The New Statesman
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: How Civility Can Save America by Reason
Available this week: "The Soul of Civility" by Alexandra Hudson
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