RealClearBooks Week of August 5, 2024 Archives

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Monday, August 5
U.S.A. Basketball Is Still an Awkward Fit
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
The Legendary Katie Ledecky Just Keeps Swimming
Pat Forde Sports Illustrated
The Interregnum
Christopher Caldwell The Lamp
Wall Street Hits the Locker Room
Luke Goldstein The American Prospect
Zoom and Doom
Adam Wilson Bookforum
The Private Life: On James Baldwin
Colm Tóibín The Paris Review
Where Was ‘Bioethics’ During Covid?
Helen Andrews The American Conservative
The Woman Who Sold the Moon
Jack Hunter Modern Age
'Hillbilly Elegy' Revisited
Sam Kashner Air Mail
Books Sold Here
Joseph Epstein Washington Free Beacon
Teenage Girls Need Judy Blume More Than Ever
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Inside the Booming Business of Punk Rock's Past
Joe Pompeo Town & Country
On Trying to Write a Novel
Tara Isabella Burton The Line of Beauty
The Beautiful New Carver Bauhaus Skateboard
Mark Judge Splice Today
Inside Out 2: Fluff, Hijinks—and the Right Message
Isaac Willour Acton Institute


Tuesday, August 6
The Bromance Between Anthony Edwards and Kevin Durant
Danny Chau The Ringer
Chasing James Baldwin’s Shadow in the South of France
Jimmie Briggs Vanity Fair
Sha’Carri Richardson Did Not Fail
Justin Peters Slate
How the Regime Captured Wikipedia
Ashley Rindsberg Pirate Wires
The Cult of Self-Optimization
Jacob Phillips Spiked
Glenn Loury on Economics, Conservatism & Crack Cocaine
Nick Gillespie Reason
Writing For, Within, and Against the Market
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
The Macabre Ironies of “Trap”
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Is Nike Still Cool?
Noah Johnson GQ
The Unlived Life
Emma Collins A New Heaven
The Real Fiction is Life: An Interview with James Purdy
Vince Aletti Grand Journal
Are You Ready for a Lit Girl Summer?
Aemilia Madden Elle
Game Changer
Sridhar Pappu Air Mail
Celebrity Fine Artist Nick Cave
Adam Lehrer Compact
Shawn Levy Unpacks ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
Rebecca Rubin Variety


Wednesday, August 7
In the Age of A.I., What Makes People Unique?
Joshua Rothman The New Yorker
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and the Demise of the Multiverse
Alec Dent The Dispatch
'Signs' Is the M. Night Shyamalan Experience at Its Best
Nicholas Quah Vulture
You Call That Compassion?
Freddie deBoer Substack
Dreams of Creation
Nawal Arjini The Nation
America’s Last Great Political Novel
Kevin Mims Quillette
The American Chess Brat
Spencer Neale The American Conservative
Writing the Conservative Mind
Ross Barkan Political Currents
M. Night Shyamalan’s Very Sinister Dad Joke
Adam Nayman The New Republic
This Is Not Your Typical Campus Novel
Nicolás Medina Mora The Atlantic
Mukbang Won’t Fill You
Poppy Sowerby UnHerd
What AI in Music Can — And Can’t — Do
Adam Clair Vox
Men Can Be Cat Ladies Too
Kate Lindsay GQ
Dance of the “Brat Summer”
Alaina Demopoulos Air Mail


Thursday, August 8
The Spiritual Realm of Sydney McLaughlin
Lex Pryor The Ringer
How “Industry” Made Prestige TV for the TikTok Era
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
The American Man Is the Problem
Alex Perez Musings From the 305
John Barth’s Escape From Nihilism
Trevor Quirk The Point
Empty Credentialism is Hurting Medicine
Akshay Pendyal Persuasion
Phantasms & Fascists
Tina Beattie Commonweal
The Greatest Baseball Series Ever
Mark Judge Washington Examiner
Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Books That Admit Summer Sucks
Paula Mejia Dirt
When Life Gives You Lemony Snicket
Laura Hackett Air Mail
Bards Behind Bars
Tony Eprile The American Scholar
Lewis Hamilton on Winning Again
Brian O'Keefe Esquire
Summer Box Office Magic
Pamela McClintock The Hollywood Reporter
Adverb English
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
A Jolt from the Slumber of the Self
Emina Melonic Chronicles


Friday, August 9
The Lost Arts
Jennifer May Reiland RealClearBooks
Pete Rose and the Legacy of Cincinnati Baseball
Brandon Harris The New Yorker
What Happened to FOMO?
Freya India After Babel
The Ben & Jerry’s Cookbook Is a Portal to ’60s-Era Nostalgia
Aimee Levitt Eater
Infra-ordinary People
Cara Blue Adams The Baffler
The Oddball 1979 Novel Having A Summer Renaissance
Greta Rainbow Nylon
The Life of Robin Williams Is the Madness of America
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Are We Thinking Ourselves Sick?
River Page The Free Press
Witnessing the Witnesses
Christopher Urban Cleveland Review of Books
Reintroducing T.J. Newman
Ryan Britt Esquire
Why Readers Love — And Love to Hate — Colleen Hoover
Constance Grady Vox
Robbie Robertson’s Tailor
Kenneth Sherman Tablet
The Godmother of the French New Wave
Carrie Rickey Air Mail
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Constitutional Tensions by Law & Liberty
Available this week: "Morning After the Revolution" by Nellie Bowles
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