RealClearBooks Week of December 4, 2023 Archives

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Monday, December 4
The Enduring Strangeness of Nicolas Cage
Isaac Butler The New Yorker
The Oral History of ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’
Bryan Curtis The Ringer
The 20 Best Books of 2023
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
The Princess Who Killed ‘The Crown’
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Shane MacGowan: Ireland’s Punk Poet
Angela Nagle UnHerd
Nobody Plays a Bad Actress Better Than Natalie Portman
Sam Adams Slate
Kate Christensen’s Delicious Plots
Bethanne Patrick Los Angeles Times
A Not So Radical Documentary
Emina Melonic Chronicles
Friendship as Soulcraft
Matt Dinan Hedgehog Review
Broad Majestic Shane
Matthew Hennessey City Journal
AI and the Rise of Mediocrity
Ray Nayler Time
Reality vs. the ‘Experts’ in College Football
Jeffrey H. Anderson American Conservative
Rekindling the Sparks of the Spirit
Daniel J. Mahoney Law & Liberty
The Lessons of the WASPs
Alec Dent The Bulwark


Tuesday, December 5
The Tired, Old Master
Matthew Gasda RealClearBooks
Dolly Parton Salutes Rock and Roll
Emily Lordi The New Yorker
After the Orgy
Ruby Sutton Compact
Already, I Was Disappointed by a Lot
Ann Manov Bookforum
History According to Ridley Scott
Mike Duncan The Nation
The Apotheosis of Taylor Swift
Ross Barkan Political Currents
New York City (1993) “Details Magazine”
Blake Nelson Travels to Distant Cities
Social Media Climbing
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
The White Pill Holiday Gift Guide
Brandon Gorrell The White Pill
The College Football Playoff’s Screw Job of Florida State
Alex Kirshner Slate
The Best TV Shows of 2023
Miles Surrey The Ringer
The Boy King
Alison Willmore Vulture
What Betty Friedan Knew
Hermione Hoby The New Republic
Veteran John Waters Reveals One of His Toughest Battles
Wills Robinson Daily Mail
The “Shouting Fire” Pretext
Corbin K. Barthold City Journal
On André 3000
Sasha Frere-Jones 4Columns


Wednesday, December 6
Recovering Anti-Woke Architecture
Tom Klingenstein Thomas D. Klingenstein
AI Will Not Satisfy
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
J. M. Coetzee’s Conflicted Romanticism
Leo Robson Bookforum
Literature at the End of the World
Valerie Stivers Compact
The Little Corporal Gets a Little Film
Peter Tonguette Acton Institute
The Best Music of 2023
Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker
Blue-Collar Jobs Might Be the Best Jobs
Elle Griffin The Elysian
The End of the World, According to AI
Ilana Masad Esquire
In Defense of Minor Obsessions
Luke Burgis Anti-Mimetic
Lexi Freiman Wrote the Year’s Funniest Novel
Christopher Bollen Interview
Rizz, the Word of the Year, Explained
Constance Grady Vox
The Best Movies of 2023
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Writing about Understanding
Yiyun Li The Paris Review
The 10 Worst Things About the Florida State Travesty
Will Leitch Intelligencer


Thursday, December 7
Inversions, Conversions, Perversions
Sheluyang Peng RealClearBooks
What We Learn from the Lives of Critics
Parul Sehgal The New Yorker
Person of the Year: Taylor Swift
Sam Lansky Time
Welcome to the Real Las Vegas
Kara Kennedy The Telegraph
Lauren Groff and the Radical Act of Paying Attention
Laura B. McGrath Public Books
The 27 Best Albums of 2023
Staff The Ringer
Never Forget
Spencer Klavan Law & Liberty
Every Celebrity’s a Writer Now
Fran Hoepfner Vulture
This Was the Year of the Sports Himbo
Matthew Roberson GQ
The Rise of the Anti-Marriage Right
Elizabeth Grace Matthew The Bulwark
God, Man, and Climate Change
Chilton Williamson Jr. Modern Age
The 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023
Laura Miller Slate
The Journalist and the Editor
Laura Kipnis Bookforum
The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023
Staff LitHub
All Dolled Up
Jayne Ross The American Scholar
Willmoore Kendall’s Battle Lines
Casey Chalk Abbeville Institute


Friday, December 8
USA Hockey
Sam Jefferies RealClearBooks
The Revealing Spectacle of Beyoncé’s “Renaissance”
Carrie Battan The New Yorker
The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
Warm Planet, Cool Heads
Nicholas Clairmont The New Atlantis
For the Love of Books
Nadya Williams Front Porch Republic
Like a Flock of Demons Released Upon the World
Nathan Harden RealClearEducation
Nostalgia Can Be an Engine of Progress
Clay Routledge Discourse
Martin Peretz's Excellent 'The Controversialist'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
‘Poor Things’ Cancels Itself Out
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Steven Hyden’s Favorite Albums Of 2023
Steven Hyden Uproxx
Reading Print Magazines Is an Elite Pursuit
Chris Black GQ
Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear
Maya Salam New York Times
How Taylor Swift Can Save America
Timothy P. Carney Washington Examiner
The Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Eagles are Pretenders
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: A Sick Joke by Law & Liberty
Available this week: "Baumgartner" by Paul Auster
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