RealClearBooks Week of October 30, 2023 Archives

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Monday, October 30
In Praise of Mick Jagger’s Voice
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
Reading Between the Lines
Jess Bergman The Baffler
Jonathan Lethem Returns to the Scene of the Crime
Ross Barkan The Nation
The Journalist and the Influencer
Ryan Zickgraf Compact
Almodóvar’s Revisionist Western
Armond White National Review
Borders & Boundaries
Robert Rubsam Commonweal
The Big Chill Turns 40
Brandon David Wilson RobertEbert.com
The Feminine Side of the Force
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
The Return of “Frasier”
Colin Marshall The New Yorker
Not So Magical Thinking
Micah Mattix Washington Free Beacon
Exorcising His Demons
John Hirschauer City Journal
The Secret Life of John Le Carré
Dominic Green Wall Street Journal
Malick’s 'Badlands' Remains an Encapsulation of Violence
Gus Mitchell LitHub
An Interview with Alexandra Hudson
Alexandra Davis Public Discourse
Searching for Sense Amid Chaos
Daniel Miller The Critic
An Eye for the Jugular
Thomas Doherty Quillette


Tuesday, October 31
What Britney Spears’s Memoir Has to Say
Lauren Michele Jackson The New Yorker
Matthew Perry Couldn’t Be Boxed In
Jen Chaney Vulture
The Fog of Art
Nina Power Compact
Patrick Mahomes Knows Where Football Is Heading
Joe Posnanski Esquire
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Lessons for Losers
Will Lloyd New Statesman
Everyone Can't Do Everything
Freddie deBoer Substack
For the Left Hand Alone
Jared Marcel Pollen Poetry Foundation
Working 9 to 5
Spencer Klavan Spencer’s Substack
A Review of River City One
Stephen B. Young American Greatness
Verdi’s Jewish Opera Grandly Staged at the Metropolitan
David P. Goldman Tablet
A New Beachhead for Western Civilization
Joseph Loconte Law & Liberty
Salem’s Unholy Bargain
Lex Pryor The Ringer
The Bookshelf: Impressionable Minds
Matthew J. Franck Public Discourse
Tocqueville, Then and Now
Guy Sorman City Journal
‘The Soul of Civility’ Review: Doing Life Together
Meghan Cox Gurdon WSJ


Wednesday, November 1
How Francis Ngannou Shocked the Boxing World
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
Louis Armstrong’s Last Word
Ethan Iverson The Nation
The Humiliating Cross-Examination of SBF
Joe Nocera The Free Press
How Starbucks Changed the Meaning of Fall Forever
River Page Pirate Wires
Paul Schrader’s American Carnage
Robert Rubsam The Baffler
In ‘Lolly Willowes,’ the Most Extra Thing to Be Is a Witch
Clare Coffey Bulwark
The Silence of the Land
Ethan Bauer Deseret
On The Many Hauntings of Langston Hughes
Nick Ripatrazone LitHub
Another Story
Nicholas Whittaker The Point
Matthew Perry’s Radical Honesty Helped Us All
Sarah Hepola Rolling Stone
The Survival Food Boom
Jacopo Prisco Wired
Frasier Is Still Listening
Nitish Pahwa Slate
John Carpenter, Dark Lord of the Film Score
Tim Greiving The Ringer
The Crisis of the West Revisited
Daniel J. Mahoney American Mind
Who Made the Oxford English Dictionary?
Stephanie Hayes The Atlantic
Shakespeare's First Folio
Nathan M. Antiel First Things
Disdain for America in Top Colleges
Peter Wood TomKlingenstein.com
Is Chris Stapleton the One Thing That America Can Agree On?
Brett Martin GQ


Thursday, November 2
How Has Big Publishing Changed American Fiction?
Kevin Lozano The New Yorker
What Happened to College Basketball?
Will Leitch Intelligencer
Contemplating Cormac McCarthy
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain High Country News
The Art World Is Eating Itself
Pierre d’Alancaisez The Critic
Inside John Darnielle’s Boiling Brain
Sam Sodomsky Pitchfork
A Burning World
Christian Wiman The American Scholar
Melissa Broder on Grief and Her New Novel
Shaad D'Souza The Guardian
Why 'The Exorcist' Endures
Jack Butler National Review
Overlooking Rural America
Caleb Whitmer Acton Institute
In Conversation With Lydia Davis
Mandana Chaffa Brooklyn Rail
The Shrinking World of Robert Walser
Dustin Illingworth Obstructive Fictions
Taylor Swift’s Tinder Masterpiece
Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic
The Demons We’ve Made
Zachary R. Goldsmith Law & Liberty Exclusive
Man Out of Time: Justified: Primeval City
Brendan Byrne Filmmaker Magazine
Immigration Small Ball
Jordan Heller The Liberal Patriot
George Michael’s Longing for Oblivion
Lias Saoudi UnHerd


Friday, November 3
Bob Knight Was Larger Than Life in Indiana
Matt Dollinger The Ringer
Harvard Debates Itself
James Hankins Law & Liberty
Remembering Robert Brustein,
Helen Shaw The New Yorker
Why I Love Paperbacks
Isaac Fitzgerald Esquire
The Beatles Return for One More Masterpiece
Rob Sheffield Rolling Stone
Aaliyah Bilal’s Portraits of American Life
Arimeta Diop Vanity Fair
Not Everything in the Garden Is Lovely
Katrina Gulliver The Spectator
Waiting at the American Clock Museum
Nicolette Polek Graywolf Lab
Against Ideas
Fred Skulthorp The Critic
Shopgirl Pride: On Kate Flannery’s “Strip Tees”
Mariella Rudi LARB
On Franz Rogowski
Lauren Oyler Port
Scorsese’s Moral Vision Shines
Peter Tonguette Acton Institute
Critical Cul-de-Sac
Jarek Paul Ervin Damage
A Form of Respect
Laura Marris The Point
The 14 Best Unreleased Beatles Songs
David Marchese Vulture
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Cancellation and Containment by Compact
Available this week: "The Soul of Civility" by Alexandra Hudson
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