RealClearBooks Week of April 15, 2024 Archives

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Monday, April 15
What Phones Are Doing to Reading
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker
The Contested Afterlife of Amy Winehouse
Kate Mossman New Statesman
Vinson Cunningham’s Novel of the Obama Campaign
Christian Lorentzen Bookforum
A Conversation with John Pistelli
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Phono Sapiens
Matthew Gasda First Things
‘Civil War’ Review
Sonny Bunch The Bulwark
Of Mice and Alpha Men
Abigail Anthony Public Discourse
On Beyoncé
Harmony Holiday 4Columns
Civil Larp: The Journalists Are at It Again
Spencer Klavan Washington Examiner
12 Questions for Jordan Castro
Gordon Glasgow Calendance
Mandatory Reporting
Thomas Beller Air Mail
The Metaverse of Fernando Pessoa
Rob Doyle UnHerd
The Rise of the Anonymous Music Star
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Sad Girl Novels
Phoebe Stuckes The Guardian
How to Be Enough
Allie Volpe Vox
Fairy Lights in the Big City
Adam Simon Law & Liberty
An Inept Takedown of William F. Buckley
Emina Melonic Chronicles
“Saint Christopher”: Hitch at 75
John Rodden Acton Institute


Tuesday, April 16
The Poet Who Took It Personally
Maggie Doherty The New Yorker
Scottie Scheffler Is Golf’s Most Pleasant Destroyer
Elizabeth Nelson The Ringer
Manufacturing Bliss
Nadia Asparouhova Asterisk Magazine
Exit vs. Build
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
The Life and Death of Hollywood
Daniel Bessner Harper's
Alex Garland’s Doomer Claptrap
Ryan Zickgraf Compact
There Is No Magic Bullet for Raising Birth Rates
Alessandra Bocchi The Critic
On Tomas Tranströmer
Johannes Göransson Cleveland Review of Books
Bringing Vladimir Sorokin to English Readers
Josiah Gogarty Prospect
Confessions of a Former Fare Hopper
Nic Rowan The American Conservative
On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer
Alissa Quart LitHub
Is Baseball Dying?
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
The Marriage Bonus
Nora Kenney Washington Free Beacon
A Defense of American Constitutionalism
David Lewis Schaefer Starting Points
Michael Douglas Dazzles in 'Franklin'
Alexander Larman Spectator World
A Society That Has Forgotten How to Sing
Anthony Esolen Chronicles
The Enchantment of Don Quixote
Noël Valis Modern Age


Wednesday, April 17
Are Flying Cars Finally Here?
Gideon Lewis-Kraus The New Yorker
The End for LeBron and Steph Is Uncomfortably Close
Danny Chau The Ringer
'Civil War’s' Mystifying Vision of American Meltdown
Osita Nwanevu New Republic
Amazon Is Filled With Garbage Ebooks
Constance Grady Vox
Tom Ripley Continues to Fascinate
Carole V. Bell NPR
Salman Rushdie Strikes Back
George Packer The Atlantic
Leo Strauss and the Promise of Political Philosophy
Daniel J. Mahoney Law & Liberty
New York’s Hottest Club Is a Literary Event
Kate Dwyer New York Times
How Elon Musk Lost His Vibes
Rachel O'Dwyer UnHerd
30 Ways to Revitalize Arts & Culture
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
William H. Pritchard and the Twilight of Literary Criticism
Lee Oser Literary Matters
Is Positive Thinking a Mistake?
Nick Morgan Psychology Today
Salman Rushdie Parties Again
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Intelligencer
Why Is 'Civil War' So Evasive?
Sam Adams Slate
The Rise and Fall of ABC’s ‘Golden Bachelor’
Tatiana Tenreyro Hollywood Reporter


Thursday, April 18
How to Both-Sides a “Civil War”
Andrew Marantz The New Yorker
Into the Tubi-Verse
John Wilmes The Ringer
Your Constitutional Right to Zyn
Kiran Sampath The Free Press
The VR and AR Arms Race
Ross Anderson Spectator World
The Parasocialism Era
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Muse among the Drafts: Part II
Alice Gribbin Notes of an Aesthete
Revolution and Counter Revolution
John G. Grove University Bookman
NPR’s New CEO Hates Tech, Too
Sanjana Friedman Pirate Wires
Conspicuously Absent
Naomi Kanakia Dirt
When Feminism Was ‘Sexist’
Mary Harrington The American Conservative
A Conversation with Anne Carson
Kate Dwyer The Paris Review
Is Tom Ripley Gay?
Mark Harris Vulture
The Poetics of Taylor Swift’s Style
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu Vanity Fair
What to Read Next If You've Got 'Shogun' Fever
Vince Mancini GQ
The Silencing of the Jewish Poet
Maxim D. Shrayer Tablet
Hungary’s “Surprise Attack”
David P. Goldman Law & Liberty
What We Can Offer If We Uncircle the Wagons
Carrie McKean Christianity Today


Friday, April 19
The Mental is Political
Sheluyang Peng RealClearBooks
The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Macbeth’s Politics—And Ours
Daniel McCarthy Modern Age
Art-Making in a Disenchanted Age
Valerie Stivers Compact
Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Why Did We Forgive OJ Simpson?
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The Perils of Solo-itis
The Ivy Exile Substack
‘Conan O’Brien Must Go’ Is the Best Version of Conan
Miles Surrey The Ringer
This Isn’t Working
B. Duncan Moench Tablet
The Return of Kid Cudi
Bijan Stephen The Nation
Back from the Brink
Chris Bullivant & Brad Wilcox Deseret
Faith and Russian Literature
Gary Saul Morson First Things
American Carnage
Allan Stratton Quillette
No Haven
Steven McGregor The New Criterion
On the Great British Smoking Ban
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
'Civil War': A Shallow and Dangerous Fantasy
Joseph Holmes Acton Institute
The Day O.J. Simpson (Almost) Confessed
Judith Regan Hollywood Reporter
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: What Went Wrong With COVID by Persuasion
Available this week: "Keeping the Republic" by Dennis Hale & Marc Landy
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