RealClearBooks Week of April 22, 2024 Archives

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Monday, April 22
It’s Impossible to Be Neutral About Taylor Swift
Alex Abad-Santos Vox
When Fans Fight Back
Dan Moore The Ringer
The Tortured Taylor Swift
Anna Leszkiewicz The New Statesman
A Flattened Lincoln
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
Nicolette Polek Found God in an Opera House
Stephen G. Adubato Interview
Nas’ 'Illmatic' Was the Beginning of the End of the Album
C. Brandon Ogbunu Wired
Don DeLillo’s Late Style
Cobi Powell Cleveland Review of Books
In the Basement
Federico Perelmuter New Left Review
On Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera”
Brittany Menjivar Los Angeles Review of Books
Bronze Age Menace
Fred Bauer National Review
A Byword for Resistance
Corbin K. Barthold City Journal
How the Suburbs Became a Trap
Caitlin Zaloom The New Republic
Rushdie’s Triumph
James Kirchick Air Mail
The Unromantic Truth About Tortured Poets
Sarah Fletcher The Critic
Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom
Leigh Stein LitHub
The NBA Just Banned a Player for Life
Alex Kirshner Slate
Peace Through Strength
Joseph Epstein Claremont Review of Books
Intoxicating Masculinity
Rob Lockwood Washington Free Beacon
Biohacking Into Oblivion
Emina Melonic Chronicles
Reading As a Moral Enterprise
John Shelton Providence


Tuesday, April 23
Everyone Failed Ronda Rousey
Oliver Bateman RealClearBooks
Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation
Adam Iscoe The New Yorker
Who Saved Salman Rushdie?
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
Processing: How Justin Taylor Wrote 'Reboot'
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
The View from Brooklyn
Stephen Eide City Journal
Lament for the Declining Art of Editing
Damon Linker Notes from the Middleground
AI and the End of the Human Writer
Samanth Subramanian The New Republic
No One Buys Books
Elle Griffin The Elysian
The Return of Comedy
Rob Long Commentary
Kant vs the Algorithm
Luke Hallam Persuasion
On Nicolette Polek's 'Bitter Water Opera'
Danielle Chelosky Hobart
On Anne Carson’s “Wrong Norma”
Adrian Lu Cleveland Review of Books
Inside the Literary Travel Boom
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
The War Between IRL and URL
Mo Diggs Cross Current
A Culture Warrior Takes a Late Swing
Dwight Garner New York Times
A Time We Never Knew
Freya India After Babel
The Phone-Based Childhood Replaced The Play-Based Childhood
Tim Hains RCP
Jerry Seinfeld Says Movies Are Over
Brett Martin GQ
Taylor Swift Makes One for Herself
Alan Light Esquire
The Greatest Book a Politician Ever Wrote
Michael Grunwald Politico Magazine
Taylor Swift Strikes Out Looking on 'The Tortured Poets Department'
Staff Paste


Wednesday, April 24
Padma Lakshmi Walks Into a Bar
Helen Rosner The New Yorker
Taylor Swift: Why You Gotta Be So Mean?
Freya Sanders The Free Press
What the Smartphone Hath Wrought
Joseph Holmes Law & Liberty
‘Civil War’ and Civic Anxiety
David Rooney & Lovia Gyarkye Hollywood Reporter
On Nicolette Polek’s 'Bitter Water Opera'
Kassia Oset The Rumpus
Why Feminists and Tradwives Are Failing
Leila Mechoui Compact
The Glorious Proletarian Theater of Pro Wrestling
Kim Kelly The Nation
What Our Elites Get Wrong about Class
Hannah E. Meyers National Review
A Son of Mexico’s Elite Bids for Literary Stardom
Nick Burns Americas Quarterly
The Problem With Taylor Swift’s New Album
Carl Wilson Slate
On the Value of Restarting
Justin Taylor LitHub
Compassion Is Making a Comeback in America
Jamil Zaki Vox
The Liberating Frankness of the Divorce Memoir
Laura Kipnis The New Republic
The New Quarter-Life Crisis
Maggie Mertens The Atlantic
What’s the Story?
Elroy Rosenberg The New Criterion
The Mythical Masculinity of Donald Trump
Frederick Kaufman UnHerd


Thursday, April 25
Love Means Everything in 'Challengers'
Justin Chang The New Yorker
‘Hit Man’ Was Made for Movie Theaters
Manuela Lazic The Ringer
Publishing a Novel Did Not Change My Life
Andrew Boryga Dwell
How to Teach Your Two-Year-Old to Read
Erik Hoel The Intrinsic Perspective
American Aristocracy
Andrew Beck Law & Liberty
Percival Everett’s American Absurd
Ellen Peirson-Hagger The New Statesman
Data, Desire, and Where Fiction Goes Next
Rose D’Amora The Nation
Robert Frost's Accidental Late Start
Henry Oliver The Common Reader
By the Left March
Christian Lorentzen Times Literary Supplement
Statecraft as Stagecraft
Rebecca Burgess City Journal
Soul Aristocrats
Bailey Trela The Baffler
Anchored in the Bay Where All Men Ride?
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
College Students Should Study More
Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring
'Challengers' Will Make You Sweat
Dana Stevens Slate
The Best Buyer for TikTok
River Page The Free Press
Coco Gauff Is Playing for Herself Now
Sean Gregory Time
‘Risky Business’ As Conservative Morality Tale?
Mark Judge Chronicles


Friday, April 26
A Martini Tour of New York City
Gary Shteyngart The New Yorker
All’s Fair in Love and Tennis
Adam Nayman The Ringer
How Gmail Became Our Diary
The Editors Intelligencer
'Ripley' and the Art of the Cruel
Titus Techera Acton Institute
The Other Side of Silence
Jared Marcel Pollen Commonweal
The Unexpected Resurrection of Harlan Ellison
Ryan Britt Inverse
A Rock Star Ideas Festival in Brooklyn
Maggie Phillips Tablet
I Emptied My Retirement Account to Buy Basketball Cards
Kaveh Akbar GQ
The Problem with Giant Book Preview Lists
Maris Kreizman LitHub
Jerry Seinfeld Has Some Thoughts
Andrew Buss Vanity Fair
I Just Don’t Get Taylor Swift
A.J. Willingham CNN
Yes, People Do Buy Books
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
Moving and Being Moved by Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Clinton Rogers Voegelin View
The Deep-State Virus
Juliana Geran Pilon City Journal
Jerry Seinfeld on the Unreality of ‘Unfrosted’
Bettina Makalintal Eater
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Andrew Boryga on "Victim" for Public Books
Available this week: "Blood Money" by Peter Schweizer
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