RealClearBooks Week of December 25, 2023 Archives

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Monday, December 25
A Forgotten Book of Christmas Poems
Casey Cep The New Yorker
The Year AI Conquered Our Imaginations
Brian Phillips The Ringer
Celebrity Memoirs: Who’s Naughty and Who’s Nice?
Paula Froelich The Free Press
Barbara Stanwyck's Midwestern Christmas
Emina Melonic Law & Liberty
The Bernstein Children on ‘Maestro’
Boris Sollazzo Hollywood Reporter
The End of the Superhero-Movie Phenomenon
Mark Harris Slate
The Sphere
Elena Saavedra Buckley The Paris Review
Going My Way: An Enduring True Fairy Tale
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Our Godless Era Is Dead
Paul Kingsnorth UnHerd
Ferrari Is an Ode to Dudes Who Love Cars
Renan Borelli Vox
‘The Iron Claw’ and the Dallas Only the Dead Know
Evan McGarvey GQ
Fairytale Christmas
Ben Jeffery The Point Magazine
Answering Pop Music’s Malaise this Christmas
Stephen Herreid Chronicles
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Advance
Louis Cheslaw Airmail
Book of the Year
Multiple authors The Critic
How Shakespeare Helped Shape Christmas
Daniel McCarthy NYPost
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics


Wednesday, December 27
How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?
Jennifer Wilson The New Yorker
Brian Eno and the Ambient Contradiction
Dan Gentile The Ringer
Did TV Die With 'Succession'?
Ian Martin UnHerd
The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty Exclusive
A Hungarian Scribe’s Antidote to Mental Poison
Matthew Gasda Compact
An Old-Fashioned Future
Peter Hitchens The American Conservative
The 7 Most Important Athletes of 2023
Will Leitch Intelligencer
How Bing Crosby Made Silicon Valley Possible
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Studio Trickery
Owen Hatherley New Left Review
And That's Why an RB Can't be Literal MVP
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Our Town
Titus Techera Fusion
Willa Cather’s Nobility
Joseph Epstein Washington Free Beacon
The Inconvenience of It All
Cheri Block Sabraw The Free Press
The Astonishing Collapse of the Pittsburgh Steelers
Alex Kirshner Slate
On 'Ferrari'
Leo Goldsmith 4Columns
The Magic of Memory and ‘Holiday Inn’
Emina Melonic Chronicles
The Lasting Impact of 'The Color Purple'
Nylah Burton Vox
The Story Behind 'The Boys in the Boat'
Olivia B. Waxman Time
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics


Thursday, December 28
How ‘Ferrari’ Was Forged
Alan Siegel The Ringer
The Great Exhaustion
Cal Newport The New Yorker
Table for One
Lexi Freiman The Cut
Dissolve the Universities?
Helen Dale Law & Liberty
I've Seen This 2023 Drama Five Times
Bilge Ebiri Slate
How the Titanic's Gym Forever Changed Fitness
Ryan Hockensmith ESPN
The Uncanny Façades of 'May December'
Beatrice Loayza The Nation
The Hipster Folklore of 'The Holdovers'
Armond White National Review
Poetry, a Matter of Life and Death
Nick Ripatrazone The Bulwark
How the Nineties Are Haunting Millennials
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The 10 Best Albums of 2023
David Renshaw Wired
Against Democratism and Other Ideologies
Daniel McCarthy American Conservative
Countering the Racial Revolutionaries
Alexander Riley Chronicles
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics


Friday, December 29
Silicon Valley’s Very Masculine Year
Zoë Bernard Vox
How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice
Patrick Radden Keefe The New Yorker
The Rise of the Sectarian University
Greg Conti Compact
The Zeitgeist Is Changing
Ross Barkan The Guardian
The Ringer’s 49 Favorite Sports Moments of 2023
Staff The Ringer
How to Dress Like Duke Ellington
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Why Does No One Write Like Tom Wolfe Any More?
Nick Burns New Statesman
A Hopeful Reminder
Alexander Nazaryan New York Times
The Craziest S**t that Happened on Planes in 2023
River Page Pirate Wires
Liminal Urbanism
Anthony Eagan City Journal
The Secret Pleasure of Breaking New Year’s Resolutions
Costica Bradatan Time
‘Oppenheimer’ Stews in Old Lies
Paul Gottfried Chronicles
The Best Podcasts of 2023
Nicholas Quah Vulture
A Year in the Life of a Disordered World
John O. McGinnis Law & Liberty
The Enduring George Will
Daniel B. Klein Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org
The 'Risky' Business of Showing All Sides
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: 10 Blocks by City Journal
Available this week: "The Book of Ayn" by Lexi Freiman
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