RealClearBooks Week of April 1, 2024 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

Monday, April 1
Back Home Again
Kazuo Robinson RealClearBooks
Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker
I Love You, Maradona
Rachel Connolly The Paris Review
Grief’s Many Voices: On Blake Butler’s “Molly”
Emma Heath Cleveland Review of Books
Alexandra Tanner Wrote a Novel for the Terminally Online
Becca Schuh Interview
NEW HAVEN, CT (1982) “College Radio”
Blake Nelson Travels to Distant Cities
The Literary Progress of Ray Bradbury
Michael Caines Times Literary Supplement
Hustle of the Hit King
Daniel J. Flynn City Journal
Daniel Kahneman’s Final Exploration of Human Error
Rob Henderson Substack
Twitter Is Almost Worthless for New Writers
ARX-Han Decentralized Fiction
'Godzilla x Kong' Is Epically, Enjoyably Stupid
Peter Suderman Reason
Rita Bullwinkel on Writing Sports Narratives
Rita Bullwinkel LitHub
Narcissism for All
Julia Friedman Quillette
Terrifying Vistas of Reality
Sam Woodward Aeon
The Violence of 'Cowboy Carter'
Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic
Spinoza in Full
J.J. Kimche First Things
Godzilla, Like You’ve Never Seen Him
Miles Surrey The Ringer
A Compelling Case for Colorblindness
David Lewis Schaefer Washington Free Beacon
Pop Music Really Ain’t What It Used to Be
Stephen Beech Metro
Remembering Zora Neale Hurston
Jack Trotter Chronicles
Will the Phone-Free Movement Work?
Rebecca Onion Slate


Tuesday, April 2
The Joy of Watching Mookie Betts Play Baseball
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
In Search of the Ultimate Old-Fashioned
Chloe Frechette Punch
Camp Is Having a Moment on Television
David Mack Slate
Diamond Dallas Page Tells America to Breathe
David Gornoski American Conservative
Canon Fodder
Christopher J. Scalia The Dispatch
The Future of Media Is Journalist-Run
Maria Bustillos The Nation
An Enchanting and Whimsical Fantasy Worth Reading
Sarah Schutte National Review
Camila Cabello Goes All In on Indie Sleaze
Meaghan Garvey GQ
Why Is There So Much Lead in American Food?
Dylan Scott Vox
'Carrie' at 50
Jessie Thompson Independent
Sex and Smashed Steel
Benjamin Kerstein Quillette
Thought Experimenter
Sam Kean The American Scholar
Diagnosing Characters to Write Them Like a Doctor
Marschall Runge Writer's Digest
Dealing with Jimmy Carter
Mark Tooley Providence
Freedom Requires Rewriting the Rule Books
Donald Devine American Spectator
The DH Is Universal, but Good DHs Are Rare
Hannah Keyser The Ringer


Wednesday, April 3
'The Gentlemen' Is Stylish and Fun
Auguste Meyrat RealClearBooks
Beyoncé Won’t Burn Down the Barn with 'Cowboy Carter'
Doreen St. Félix New Yorker
Americans Love Florida, Even if You Don’t
Nate Silver Silver Bulletin
The Quintessential Hollywood Affair
Emina Melonic Chronicles
Sigmund Freud, C.S. Lewis, and a Great Madness
J.C. Scharl Acton Institute
The Anger and the Resolve
Jess Cotton The Nation
Holly Gramazio Is Here to Solve Your Dating Burnout
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
The World Still Loves (Yesterday’s) America
Jessi Jezewska Stevens Foreign Policy
When Trauma-Seekers Pigeonhole Writers of Color
D. Watkins Salon
My First Year in Texas
Bridget Phetasy Spectator World
This Whale Has Something to Say
David L. Ulin The Atlantic
We Need to Calm down About Screen Time
Timandra Harkness UnHerd
MLB’s Next Order of Business? Saving Pitchers
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
The Boeing Nosedive
Jeff Wise Intelligencer
How Kirsten Dunst Outplayed Hollywood
Ben Allen GQ
Is There a Widening Rift Between Men and Women?
Iskra Fileva Psychology Today
Gateway to Statesmanship
Justin D. Lyons Providence
Lady Stardust
Deborah Levy Literary Review
Can Local Journalism Be Saved?
Howard Husock City Journal


Thursday, April 4
Keeping the Republic
Dennis Hale & Marc Landy RealClearBooks
The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife
Sophie Elmhirst The New Yorker
A Conversation with Lauren Oyler
Sheila Heti Paris Review
Dark Matter
Meg Bernhard Hazlitt
The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)
Multiple authors Vulture
Society Is Becoming Addicted to Sports Gambling
Alex Shephard New Republic
On the Collapse of Small Press Distribution
Adam Morgan LitHub
This Book Will Send You to Hell
Rob Doyle UnHerd
The Future of American Sports Isn’t Pretty
Brendan Ruberry Persuasion
Psychoanalysis Learns to Love Letting Go
Sam Adler-Bell The Baffler
The Dark Heart of Patricia Highsmith
Alexander Larman Telegraph
On Sheila Heti’s “Alphabetical Diaries”
Julia Berick Los Angeles Review of Books
Inside the NBA’s Twin-flux
Alex Schiffer The Ringer
The Great Spring 2024 Book Preview
Editors The Millions


Friday, April 5
Larry David’s Last Stand
Alan Siegel The Ringer
Woody Allen Reëmerges
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever
Gary Shteyngart The Atlantic
The ‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Harm Vulnerable Children
Mary Wakefield The Spectator
In Pieces
Trevor Quirk New Left Review
The Influencers With as Much Access as the Press
Makena Kelly Wired
Inside Danny McBride’s Lowcountry Comedy Commune
Sam Schube GQ
Has Beyoncé Killed Jolene?
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Gambling Is Ruining Sports
Joe Nocera The Free Press
Why Was 'The Abyss' a Flop?
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
Netflix’s Moody Fresh Take on Patricia Highsmith
Daniel Fienberg Hollywood Reporter
Conversation Starters with Jonathan Leaf
Anthony Sacramone Acton Institute
Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
Emanuel Maiberg 404 Media
Behind the Curtain: How Trump's Mind Works
Jim VandeHei & Mike Allen Axios
I Once Dissed Journey in a Concert Review. I Wrong.
Brandon Griggs CNN
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Cheating the System by Compact
Available this week: "Keeping the Republic" by Dennis Hale & Marc Landy
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