RealClearBooks Week of April 29, 2024 Archives

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Monday, April 29
Can a Podcast Change the Way Sports Are Covered?
Jay Caspian Kang New Yorker
How Taylor Swift Writes About Being Taylor Swift
Nora Princiotti The Ringer
Russell Kirk’s Gothic Ghost
Daniel McCarthy Modern Age
The Death of Gutenberg
Geoff Shullenberger City Journal
Challengers Is a Brutal Game of Desire
Annie Berke The New Republic
America and Europe Are Equally Poor
Marko Jukic Palladium
How Fleetwood Mac Got Cool Again
Sam Adams Slate
Life in the Shadows
Emina Melonic Law & Liberty
1994 Was the Last Good Year—and It's Still Going
Angela Watercutter Wired
On Elias Canetti’s 'Book Against Death'
Joshua Cohen The Paris Review
The Practical Environmentalist
James P. Pinkerton The American Conservative
I Don’t Need Your Opinion on My Kid’s Screen Time
Amil Niazi The Cut
Hemingway, McCarthy, and Our ‘Used Up’ Words
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles
How Sci-Fi Inspired Conspiracy Theory
Annalee Newitz The Atlantic
Movies Can Help to Heal Our Broken World
John Dougherty America Magazine
The Excommunication of Pete Rose
Carmen Nanko-Fernández Commonweal
All About Ed
Andrew Ferguson Washington Free Beacon
Enough With the 'Eras' Already
Louis Staples Bustle


Tuesday, April 30
Gatsby Loses to Woody Allen
Todd G. Buchholz RealClearBooks
The Scholar of Comedy
David Remnick The New Yorker
Privileges of Misery
Max Pearl The Baffler
Signifying Nothing: Against Byung-Chul Han
Daniel Miller Mars Review of Books
Does ‘Challengers’ Serve an Ace or a Fault?
Miles Surrey The Ringer
On Leslie Jamison’s “Splinters”
Melissa Rodman Cleveland Review of Books
Young, Cool, Coddled and Raised on the Internet
Dwight Garner New York Times
Hiking Rewired My Brain
Grayson Haver Currin Outside
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature
Nic Rowan The American Conservative
The Latest Online Culture War Is Humans vs. Algorithms
Elana Klein Wired
Remembering T. S. Eliot
Micah Mattix Chronicles
Finding the Boundaries of the American Midwest
Jon K. Lauck Middle West Review
The Godfather of American Comedy
Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic
Substack Could Create the Future of Books
Elle Griffin The Elysian
Did Jane Austen Like Music?
Gillian Dooley LitHub
Just Famous Enough
Multiple authors Dirt
The NFL Has a Different Kind of Gambling Problem Now
Alex Kirshner Slate
The Napkin Project (Love Stories Edition)
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
Pen America Has Surrendered Over Israel
Lionel Shriver UnHerd


Wednesday, May 1
Who’s Afraid of Judith Butler?
Parul Sehgal The New Yorker
Claire Messud’s Family Had Secrets
Erin Vanderhoof Vanity Fair
Are White Women Better Now?
Nellie Bowles The Atlantic
When Silicon Valley Stopped Trying to Save the World
Michal Lev-Ram Free Press
Tech’s #MeToo Architect: The Legacy of Ellen Pao
Sanjana Friedman Pirate Wires
Jerry Seinfeld Is Wrong About Comedy
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
Cass Elliot Dreamin’
Joanne Kaufman Air Mail
What Do Book Publishers Actually Do?
Ross Barkan Political Currents
I Was Raised by Dog Breeders
Mitchell Jackson Spectator World
Paul Auster, Brooklyn Literary Star, Dies at 77
Alex Williams New York Times
Why ‘Baby Reindeer’ Rose to the Top
Meecham Whitson Meriweather The Ringer
The Case for Polyamory
Olympia Campbell UnHerd
Alice Notley’s Prophecies
David Schurman Wallace The Paris Review
Orwell's Arresting Ambiguities
Theodore Dalrymple Law & Liberty
Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences
Jason Koebler 404 Media
Remembering Russell Kirk, 30 Years Later
Michael Lucchese Providence Magazine
What’s in a Naomi?
Derek Turner Chronicles


Thursday, May 2
The Battle for Attention
Nathan Heller The New Yorker
All Internet Roads Lead Back to 2014
Steffi Cao The Ringer
On Loving Cormac McCarthy’s Early Work
Jason K. Friedman LitHub
The Nostalgia Plot
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
Our Humdrum Dystopia
Matthew Gasda Compact
Maximum Speed and Micro Bikinis
Jack Sullivan Air Mail
What Do Plants Know?
Willa Köerner Pioneer Works
Paul Auster’s New York Tragedy
Lucy Sante The New York Times
How Fiction Became Edible
Callum Bains Esquire
The Only Relationship That Matters in 'Challengers'
Erin Schwartz The Nation
The Rise of the Slacker Aristocracy
Joseph W. Sullivan UnHerd
When Poetry Could Define a Life
Adam Kirsch The Atlantic
Paul Auster Remembered
Multiple authors The Guardian
Here Are the 2024 James Beard Awards Finalists
Staff Eater
Dave & Buster’s Is Taking a Sinister Gamble
Alex Kirshner Slate
Liberalism Hijacked
Juliana Geran Pilon Fusion
‘Dark Money’ Influence Expanding, Author Reveals
Fred Lucas The Daily Signal


Friday, May 3
“Challengers” Is Essentially a Well-Shot Commercial
Tyler Foggatt The New Yorker
Dua Lipa Is Just Here for a Good Time
Nora Princiotti The Ringer
The Complicated Ethics of Rare-Book Collecting
Francesca Mancino The Atlantic
Barron Trump, American Caesar
River Page The Free Press
Why We Can’t Stop Talking About Age Gaps
Constance Grady Vox
When Closing a Very Small Campus Is a Very Big Deal
Stephen G. Adubato NYTimes
Venture Capital’s Space for Sheep
Trae Stephens Pirate Wires
Mike Trout and What Might Have Been
Joe Posnanski Esquire
Having a Bad Bey
Sarah Ditum The Critic
Normal Kids Get F*cked
Ani Wilcenski Tablet
Remembering the Postmodern Paul Auster
Alexander Larman Spectator World
Hometown Heroes
Eric Wills The American Scholar
The AI Rap Era Has Already Started
Abe Beame GQ
The Delusion of Having a Meaningful Job
Stuart Whatley UnHerd
Disney’s ‘Mufasa’ and the Back Story on Hollywood Back Stories
Ben Zimmer WSJ
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Rage and Aid by Compact
Available this week: "Blood Money" by Peter Schweizer
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