RealClearBooks Week of May 20, 2024 Archives

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Monday, May 20

The Nostalgic Glow of the Movie Soundtrack

Justin Sayles The Ringer

The Madly Captivating Urban Sprawl of “Megalopolis”

Justin Chang The New Yorker

The New Midlife Crisis

Matthew Schmitz First Things

England As It Once Was

Titus Techera Law & Liberty

Gen Z’s Gender Stalemate

Kay S. Hymowitz City Journal

A Review of John Mackey’s ‘The Whole Story’

John Tamny RealClearPolitics

Why Modern Art Isn’t Right

Daniel McCarthy Modern Age

How Sad Do You Feel Right Now?

Leah Libresco Sargeant The New Atlantis

A Year To Remember-Even if We Don’t Want To

Kara Kennedy Washington Free Beacon

Baby Reindeer Is a True Story—But Whose True Story?

Kat Rosenfield The Free Press

What Replaced the Village Voice?

Ross Barkan Political Currents

What Glenn Loury Taught Me

Jesse Adams Washington Examiner

Is 2024 the Year of the Box-Office Megaflop?

Guy Lodge The Guardian

Sicko Yorgos Is Back

Bilge Ebiri Vulture

Flannery O’Connor’s Salvific Intervention

Anthony Barr The Dispatch

Inside the Movement to Bring the Arts to Outer Space

Christopher Cokinos Esquire

'Megalopolis' Is a Fightback Against Artistic Safetyism

Ralph Leonard UnHerd

Tuesday, May 21

Inside Kevin Costner’s $38 Million 'Horizon' Gamble

Zach Baron GQ

‘Megalopolis’ Is a Big, Beautiful Mess

Manuela Lazic The Ringer

Kevin Kwan Almost Didn’t Finish This Book

Adam Morgan Esquire

Harrison Butker Is Catholic. So What?

Kat Rosenfield The Free Press

How Cindy Lee Became Music's Underground Success Story

Meaghan Garvey NPR

Meme World Syndrome

Emina Melonic Chronicles

Why We Can’t Make Up Our Minds About Nuns

Amanda Fortini New York Times Style

The Perils of Failing To Toe the Party Line

Rachel Cooke The Guardian

Billie Eilish’s New Album Is a Landmark

Carl Wilson Slate

The Many Notes of Anthony Burgess

Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon

A French Reproach to Our Big, Baggy American Memoirs

Katie Roiphe The Atlantic

Publishers Aren't in Trouble—Writers Are

Elle Griffin Persuasion

The Kafkaesque Journey of the Oakland A’s

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

The Scramble for AI Computing Power

Samuel Hammond American Affairs

Talking About WNBA Team Names

Ethan Strauss House of Strauss

Words and Weapons

Adam Tomkins Law & Liberty

How Rushdie Reckoned With an Unthinkable Attack

Jacob Bacharach New Republic

The Prophet Who Failed

Emily Harnett Harper's

An Interview With Dennis Hale and Marc Landy

Elliott Drago Jack Miller Center

Wednesday, May 22

When the C.I.A. Turned Writers Into Operatives

Sarah Larson The New Yorker

Funny or DIY

Nate Rogers The Ringer

What I’ve Learned: Stephen King

Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire

Ten Questions for Mesha Maren

Staff Poets & Writers

39 Albums We Can’t Wait to Hear This Summer

Dan Reilly Vulture

Wings of Desire

Jessica Blough Alta Online

What Is an Editor?

Elroy Rosenberg Tablet

The Breslin Era

Ross Barkan The Point

The Second Coming of Chad Michael Murray

Samantha Leach The Cut

On Honor Levy’s “My First Book”

Martin Dolan Cleveland Review of Books

Why I Joined UATX

Morgan Marietta The American Mind

America’s Interior Is Wasting Away

Peter Tonguette The American Conservative

Kevin Kwan on His Love of Classics

Kevin Kwan LitHub

The Problem With Music Biopics

Jack Hamilton Slate

Thursday, May 23

The Condemned

Andrew Fowler RealClearBooks

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Anthony Lane The New Yorker

Can Scarlett Johansson Stop AI Sounding Like Her?

River Page The Free Press

The Day I Finally Threw My First Punch

Scott Huler Esquire

Ali Abbasi’s Gift to Donald Trump at Cannes

Kara Kennedy New Statesman

The Raiding of Red Lobster

Luke Goldstein The American Prospect

The Most Important Trait for Yale’s Next President: Courage

Tyler Godoff RCEd

The Billie Eilish Divide

Julianna Ress The Ringer

Claire Messud’s Remarkable Experiment in Historical Fiction

Lily Meyer The Nation

What Nellie Saw

David Mikics Tablet

Mimetic Polyamory

Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption

An Economist Goes Right, Left, and Back Again

Helen Andrews American Conservative

Tennis Explains Everything

Michael Nicholas The Atlantic

Cultivating the American Life

Jesse Merriam Law & Liberty

What We’re Reading in May

Staff Quillette

Friday, May 24

A Poet’s Reckoning with What Poetry Can Do

Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker

‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Is All Muscle Memory

Adam Nayman The Ringer

Autobiography of Influence

Jordan Castro The Point

Sincerity, Delicately Spun: On Honor Levy’s “My First Book”

Conor Truax LARB

The Princess in the Tribeca Loft

Lea Carpenter Air Mail

What’s Really Epic About Furiosa

Shirley Li The Atlantic

The Worst Book of the Year

James Piereson The New Criterion

Optimizing to Nowhere

Ross Barkan Political Currents

Surfing the American Dream

Alexander Sammon Slate

Why Progressives Want to Forget George Floyd

Kat Rosenfield UnHerd

Embracing the American Family

Joshua Bowman Law & Liberty

Tim Butcher's Tragic and Engrossing 'Blood River'

John Tamny RealClearMarkets

21 Ways to Hack Stardom

Editors Vulture

The Virtues of Settler Colonialism

Pavlos Papadopoulos TomKlingenstein.com

Canada’s Assault on Free Speech

Jeffrey Cieslikowski Persuasion

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Sidelining Science by City Journal

Available this week: "All Fours" by Miranda July

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