RealClearBooks Week of February 19, 2024 Archives

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Monday, February 19
What Jennifer Lopez Has to Say About Bennifer
Lauren Michele Jackson New Yorker
Is Elena Velez the First ‘Post-Woke’ Designer?
Olivia Reingold The Free Press
An Interview with Annie Proulx
Elizabeth Phelan Cleveland Review of Books
In the Belly of MrBeast
Belinda Luscombe Time
When Goodreads Reviews Go Bad
Lauren Oyler The Guardian
Unlocking Antiquity
Nicholas Wade City Journal
Why Is Noting Married People Are Happier Controversial?
Karol Markowicz NYPost
The Best Picture Nominees, 2024
Allan Stratton Quillette
Gloria Steinem Is Still In the Fight
Ariel Leve Esquire
The Future of Silk
Hiawatha Bray Works in Progress
Everything Everywhere All at Once All of the Time
Bruce Robbins The Baffler
A Life Well Lived
Henry T. Edmondson III Law & Liberty
The 'Into the Wild' Bus is Now in a Museum
Eva Holland Outside
Public Life, Private Vice in American Life
James Diddams Acton Institute
Why Luxury Beliefs Should Trouble Us All
Conn Carroll Washington Examiner
The Bad Politics of Good Taste
Lauren Kelly The Nation
Dakota Johnson’s Aloof Appeal, Explained
Alex Abad-Santos Vox
To Be Dry and Cutting Your Writing Has to be Good First
Freddie deBoer Substack
At Ease Amid the Ruins
Robert Pogue Harrison New York Review of Books
Exodus 90: The Other Side of Feminism
John M. Howting III Chronicles


Tuesday, February 20
The Swagger of Caitlin Clark
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
The Allure of Bigfoot
Laura Miller Slate
The State of the Culture, 2024
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Unanswered Questions of 'True Detective'
Jorge Cotte The Nation
‘American Fiction’ and the Wet Eyes of the Sentimentalist
Jason England Defector
I Don't Want to Grow Up
Elle Griffin Oldster
Issa López Wants You to Decide
Roxana Hadadi Vulture
Is Philosophy Self-Help?
Kieran Setiya The Point
'The Taste of Things' Is More Than an Ode to Pleasure
Adam Nayman New Republic
Raëlian Melodrama Courtesy of Netflix
Emina Melonic Chronicles
Inside the Biggest Art Fraud in History
Jordan Michael Smith Smithsonian
The Best Food Books to Read This Spring
Amy McCarthy & Bettina Makalintal Eater
Fresh Meat
Olivia Potts Longreads
Inside Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ Collapse
Pamela McClintock Hollywood Reporter
The Secret Prudishness of 'Poor Things'
Shelby Kearns American Spectator
Politics Has Become Pro Wrestling
David Gornoski The American Conservative
In the Country of Last Things
David Cohen Quillette


Wednesday, February 21
Jenny Slate Doesn’t Want to Gross You Out
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
Can Saudi Arabia Buy Soccer?
Oliver Franklin-Wallis GQ
How the Internet Killed 'The Simpsons'
Nicholas Clairmont The Critic
Why Ozempic Is Cheating
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
What to Do If You're 'Divorce-Curious'
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
Always Rooting for the Antihero
Michiko Kakutani LitHub
Why Tolstoy Didn’t Want You to Have Sex
Valerie Stivers Compact
Bracing Walk on the Other Side of War Literature
Seth Allard Providence Magazine
How Feminism Ends
Ginevra Davis American Affairs
REVIEW: Remaking the World
Miles Smith IV Current
The Magic of Reading and Rereading Bernard Malamud
Vivian Gornick The Nation
Oppenheimer and a Future Worth Waiting For
Joseph Holmes Acton Institute
The Old Soul That’s Giving the Miami Heat New Life
Wes Goldberg The Ringer
The Loneliness of Jodie Foster
Jordan Kisner The Atlantic
Bluesky’s Future Is Social Media’s Past
Jason Parham Wired


Thursday, February 22
Beyond the Marble
Jeremy S. Adams RealClearBooks
The Snake with the Emoji-Patterned Skin
Rebecca Giggs The New Yorker
What Shocked Me About the Culture at Yale
Rob Henderson Persuasion
What Happened to Baseball Jerseys?
Amanda Mull The Atlantic
Do You Know What You Want?
Oliver Traldi Wisdom of Crowds
A Techno-Industrialist Manifesto
Aaron Slodov Pirate Wires
Sara Ahmed and the Joys of Killjoy Feminism
Judith Butler The Nation
Adverbs Are Good
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Why Poetry Matters
Roger Kimball The Epoch Times
Billie Holiday’s Changeable Shade
Ian Penman Harper's
Godzilla’s Radioactive Origins
K. F. Watanabe The Baffler
The Barefooted Faulkner
Jack Trotter Chronicles
Museum Selfie-Takers Are Causing Damage
Sarah Rose Sharp Hyperallergic
The Cost of Living
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
The New Right's Attack on Markets Is Ignorant
Brent Orrell & David Veldran UnPopulist
Can Conservative Filmgoers Win the Culture War?
Armond White National Review
Michiko Kakutani Was the Most Feared Woman in Publishing
Dan Kois Slate
18 Years Old, Twitter—Now X—Behaves Like a Sullen Teen
Jennifer Szalai NYTimes
Introduction to a Giant
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative


Friday, February 23
The Weirdest Night in Pop
Sarah Larson The New Yorker
Kids Get Schooled on Radical Politics
Francesca Block The Free Press
Cooking with Franz Kafka
Valerie Stivers The Paris Review
English for the Dazed and Confused
Mark Bauerlein Public Discourse
Want a Better Society? Try Better Buildings
Alexander Nazaryan New York Times
How to Save America’s Transmission System
Brian Potter Institute for Progress
Four Books I Loved Coming Out This Spring
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
‘Schindler’s List’: An Oral History of a Masterpiece
Scott Feinberg Hollywood Reporter
Beyoncé Has Embraced Country
Chris Molanphy Slate
Romantic Norms Are in Flux
Rebecca Jennings Vox
Leslie Jamison Writes Into the Trouble
Leslie Jamison LitHub
Motorpsycho Nightmare
Kevin Mims Quillette
AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They Deserve
John Herrman Intelligencer
Will Harvard Get Another Prof Like Harvey Mansfield?
Carey Goldberg Boston Globe
The 2024 NFL Quarterback Commitment Index
Danny Heifetz The Ringer
Dave Rubin To Host 'The Rubin Report' at RealClear Gala
David DesRosiers RCP
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Chaos and Order by City Journal
Available this week: "The Wisdom of Our Ancestors" by Graham James McAleer & Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul
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