RealClearBooks Week of November 13, 2023 Archives

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Monday, November 13
Deion Sanders and the Future of College Football
Zach Helfand The New Yorker
The Misunderstood History of American Wrestling
Nadine Smith The Nation
The Ordinary, the Extraordinary, and 'Priscilla'
Kara Kennedy Washington Examiner
Can a Soldier Ever Go Home From War?
John Waters The Messenger
Is the Marvel Universe About to Implode?
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
All Classics Are Funny
Joel Cuthbertson The Bulwark
Law and L.A. Fame
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
The Haunting of Russell Kirk
Matthew Schmitz First Things
Andrew Wylie Turned Serious Literature Into Big Business
Alex Blasdel Guardian
On “River City One” and Coming Home From War
Erica Moshtahedian RCPolitics
Can America, And Its Veterans, Find Their Purpose?
Stuart Scheller The Federalist
‘The Curse’ Is the Most Uncomfortable Show of the Year
Alison Herman Variety
Elon Musk and the Value of Failure
Virginia Postrel Washington Free Beacon
An Interview With Geoff Rickly
Madeline Howard Bomb Magazine


Tuesday, November 14
The Most Important Election of Their Lifetimes
John Bicknell RealClearBooks
Stop Blaming Parents for Everything
Ashley Frawley UnHerd
Was Nietzsche a Techno-Optimist?
Samuel Hammond City Journal
Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built
Joshua Rothman The New Yorker
Keep On Trucking
Addison Del Mastro The Deleted Scenes
Finding Bliss In Cancellation
Daniel Spielberger Esquire
On Nicole Flattery’s “Nothing Special”
Rafaela Bassili Cleveland Review of Books
'The Killer' Is a Black-Comic Masterpiece
Alexander Larman Spectator World
Jeff Tweedy on Religion, Music, and Dolly Parton
Rachel Martin NPR
Dark Wellness Novels Turn Beauty Obsession Into A Cult
Madeline Howard Nylon
The Common Sense of the Hillbilly Thomist
Alex Taylor Law & Liberty
The Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Grammy Nominations
Justin Curto Vulture
C.J. Stroud Is Just Getting Started
Steven Ruiz The Ringer
Benevolent AI Is a Bad Idea
Miya Perry Palladium
In Praise of the Tangible Sacredness of the Printed Word
Ed Simon LitHub
How Jacob Elordi Became The New King
Gabriella Paiella GQ


Wednesday, November 15
Making the Most of Our “One Wild and Precious Life”
Grace-Marie Turner RCBooks
George Scialabba’s Prejudice for Progress
Sam Adler-Bell Commonweal
Mastery and Command
Santi Ruiz The American Conservative
The Price of Guilt
Chris Zimmerman Plough
The Glorious Comedy of Victor Wembanyama
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
In Lexi Freiman’s Books, It’s So Easy to Be Wrong
Emma Alpern Vulture
The Buzz on Buzzfeed
Tony Spanakos Law & Liberty
Book Club Spent 28 Years Reading 'Finnegans Wake'
Lois Beckett Guardian
How To Kill a Superhero
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The False Promise of Driverless Cars
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
The Curse as Nathan Fielder's Penance
Freddie deBoer Substack
How Bennett Sims Writes
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
What Is Snoop Dogg Doing?
Luke Winkie Slate


Thursday, November 16
'Master and Commander' at 20
Martin Pengelly The Guardian
Big Publishing Killed the Author
Scott W. Stern The New Republic
Going Viral
Tarpley Hitt The Nation
The Conservative Mind at 70
Roger Kimball The University Bookman
Real Life
Dustin Illingworth New Left Review
Sympathy for the Schoolgirl
Molly Fischer The New Yorker
Tumblr Is Always Dying
Elizabeth Minkel Wired
How ChatGPT Can Change the Future of Jobs
Derek Thompson The Ringer
The Greatest Dictionary Collection in the World
April White Atlas Obscura
A Great Film That Wasn’t
Peter Hitchens The American Conservative
Kurt Vonnegut’s House Is Not Haunted
Sophie Kemp The Paris Review
Why Activism Leads to Such Bad Writing
George Packer The Atlantic
Who Here Hasn’t Dreamed of Nicolas Cage?
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
All Fall Down
Abigail Anthony New Criterion
Sigrid Nunez’s Flawless Recipe for Literary Excellence
Lynn Steger Strong LA Times
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Friday, November 17
Gladstone Talks ‘Flower Moon’
Selome Hailu Variety
The Sphere and Our “Immersion” Complex
Jackson Arn The New Yorker
How TMZ Became Hollywood’s Grim Reaper
Multiple authors Hollywood Reporter
The Dangerous Lure of the Vigilante
Alexander Nazaryan Compact
Spinning Through Time
Asheesh Agarwal Law & Liberty Exclusive
'Twilight' Has Made Monsters of Us
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Have We Become Gods?
Brad East Commonweal
André 3000 on His New Album
Zach Baron GQ
Why I’m Increasingly Worried About Boys, Too
Jonathan Haidt aibm
The NFL’s Most Baffling Winning Team
Alex Kirshner Slate
A Redacted Past Slowly Emerges
Tope Folarin The Atlantic
The Snoop Dogg Manifesto
Armond White National Review
Amy Lee Still Holds the Goth-Metal Crown
Hanna Hanra The Cut
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Revert and Convert by Compact
Available this week: "Baumgartner" by Paul Auster
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