RealClearBooks Week of June 17, 2024 Archives

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Monday, June 17
How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV
Emily Nussbaum The New Yorker
The Tao of Joe Mazzulla
Seerat Sohi The Ringer
What City Kids Learn on My Farm
Larissa Phillips The Free Press
The Myth of Low Black Self-Esteem
John McWhorter Persuasion
The Captain of Yacht Rock
Christopher J. Scalia Washington Free Beacon
Tastemakers Wanted—Badly
Peachy Keenan American Mind
Finding Yourself Is a Spectral Affair
Gideon Leek Village Voice
The Genius of James Joyce
Joshua Hren America Magazine
For Love and Money, Married Dads Matter
Brad Wilcox Compact
A Conversation with Miranda July
Lily Felsenthal & Debbie Ou LARB
A Comedy of Terrors: Gabriel Smith’s “Brat”
Kazuo Robinson Chicago Review of Books
Inspiring, Thrilling, and Confused
Corbin K. Barthold City Journal
Heterodox and Loving It
The Ivy Exile Substack
Book Publishing in Crisis
Roger Friedman Showbiz411
‘Civil War’ Shows American Divisions Through a Glass
Paul du Quenoy Chronicles


Tuesday, June 18
“Inside Out 2”: Once More, with Feelings
Justin Chang The New Yorker
Can Feminist Films Be Conservative?
Jack Hunter Modern Age
Glenn Loury’s Glaring Honesty
Naomi Schaefer Riley Washington Free Beacon
The Odd Couple
Jeffrey Meyers The Critic
Tell and Tell Again: On Percival Everett’s “James”
Evan Grillon LARB
How Joni Mitchell Pioneered Her Own Form of Artistic Genius
Ann Powers LitHub
War in the Aisles
Jarod Facundo The American Prospect
Golf’s Great New Redemption Story Is a Little Too Easy
Alex Kirshner Slate
New Play Plumbs the Personal and Political Civil War
Peter W. Wood AmCon
Decolonizing the Drugstore
Madeleine Rowley The Free Press
'House of the Dragon' Is a Troubled Heir
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
Paintings About Painting
Pat Lipsky The New Criterion


Wednesday, June 19
The Oral History of ‘Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story’
Jake Kring-Schreifels Ringer
Instagram Is Not a Cigarette
Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic
The Purpose of Art in Wartime
James Poulos The American Mind
The Tech Insurgent's Battle for the Future
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
On “The Hunger of Women”
Rhian Sasseen Cleveland Review of Books
Why John Milton’s Free Speech Pamphlet Still Matters
Nick Clairmont FIRE
Juliet Escoria Wants to Bring Back Fistfights
Charlene Elsby The Millions
On J. D. Salinger’s “Hapworth 16, 1924”
Grace Byron Los Angeles Review of Books
Why There Will Never Be Another MLB Player Like Willie Mays
Tim Kurkjian ESPN
How Gabriel Smith Wrote the Book of the Summer
Paul Thompson SSENSE
Diana Taurasi Is Down for One More Party
Matthew Roberson GQ
Huge in Palm Springs
Dan Kois Slate
The Mental Challenge of Winning the N.B.A. Finals
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
The Paradox of the Contemporary Southern Writer
Levi Vonk LitHub


Thursday, June 20
Journalism Needs Cultural Adjacency
Alex Perez Persuasion
Willie Mays Was the Greatest Baseball Player Ever
Rany Jazayerli The Ringer
Rachel Cusk’s Cruel Misandry
Valerie Stivers Compact
Has the DEI Backlash Come for Publishing?
Dan Sinykin & Richard Jean So The Atlantic
Beauvoir's Best Insight
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
Summer 2024 Book List
Stephen G. Adubato Cracks in Postmodernity
Is Silicon Valley Shifting To The Right?
John Coogan Pirate Wires
Isn’t Willie Mays Wonderful?
Joe Posnanski Esquire
A Gen-X Sense of Risk Is Needed
Mark Judge Chronicles
How Charles Taylor Would Heal the Ills of Modernity
Adam Gopnik The New Yorker
The Unexpected Afterlife of 'Autobiography of a Face'
Alice Robb New Republic
Juneteenth Is Our Second Independence Day
Condoleezza Rice The Free Press
Allow Artists to Be Artists
Jonathan Keeperman The American Mind


Friday, June 21
Tut’s Treasures Up Close
Grace-Marie Turner RealClearBooks
“The Bikeriders” Lends a Wild Bunch a Mythic Grandeur
Richard Brody New Yorker
Salman Rushdie’s Beautiful Revenge
Liel Leibovitz Tablet
Willie Mays Defined Baseball’s Golden Era
Joe Nocera The Free Press
Satire’s Trojan Horse
Andrew Boryga Public Books
Principled Politics and Divided Hearts
Josie McDonell & Tom Sarrouf Jr. Modern Age
Yorgos Lanthimos Is Not Your Friend
Alison Willmore Vulture
That’s That Sabrina Carpenter Espresso
Savannah Walsh Vanity Fair
Do Authors Really Need to Spend Their Own Money?
Maris Kreizman LitHub
The Case for Not Sanitizing Fairy Tales
Haley Stewart Plough
The Subtropical Open
Thomas Swick The Miami Native
Portraits of the Artist
Maya Solovej The Baffler
The Man in the Ravine
T.M. Brown Los Angeles Review of Books
Millennial Nostalgia and the Analog Universe
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Quiet on the Front by Compact
Available this week: "Morning After the Revolution" by Nellie Bowles
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