RealClearBooks Week of August 12, 2024 Archives

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Monday, August 12
“It Ends with Us” Showcases Blake Lively’s Wry Grandeur
Richard Brody New Yorker
Robbie Robertson’s Family Feud
Seth Abramovitch & Winston Cho Hollywood Reporter
The Death of the Magazine
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Our Vanishing Internet: An Interview with Dr. Larry Sanger
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Tornadobilly Elegy
Kara Kennedy Washington Examiner
We're Doing ‘Men Don’t Read Books' Discourse Again
Jason Diamond GQ
A Stalled American Dream
Chris Arnade Chris Arnade Walks the World
Bruce Springsteen’s Tour de Force
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
Bonfire of the Humanities
John Mullan The New Statesman
The Faith of Djokovic
Spencer Neale The American Conservative
Another Long, Hot Summer
Kristina T. Saccone Wisdom of Crowds
Sinykin v. Lorentzen v. Esquire v. Barkan v. Perez
Sam Kahn Castalia
The Californication of Texas
Daniel Kalder UnHerd
Escaping the Fame Trap
Stuart McGurk Air Mail
Wokeness and the “Sick Animal”
Yael Levin Hungerford City Journal
On Edna O'Brien
George Monaghan Peaceable Land
Bushleaguer
The Ivy Exile Substack
US Women’s Soccer Team Silences Player
Katrina Trinko The Daily Signal


Tuesday, August 13
The Well-Trained Boy
Elizabeth Grace Matthew RealClearBooks
The End of HBO Sunday Nights
Sam Adams Slate
Apocalypse Soon?
Brian A. Smith Law & Liberty
It’s All Over Now, Goodnight
Jeff Weiss & Meaghan Garvey Tablet
Five Letters from Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney The Paris Review
The Peculiar Joy of Watching Tom Cruise Jump From the Sky
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
How the Gay-Rights Movement Lost Its Way
James Kirchick The Atlantic
JoAnna Novak’s Poems of Domestic Dread
Alana Pockros Poetry Foundation
How the USWNT Returned to the Top of the Sport
Anthony Dabbundo The Ringer
'Bright Lights' Hits the Big 4-0
Max Kutner Air Mail
America Deserves a Star Spangled Banger
Eli Lake The Free Press
Can Stephen Curry Become a TV Star, Too?
Joseph Bien-Kahn GQ
Ladies in Leotards
Holly Lawford-Smith Quillette
Will They Carry My Book?
Mark Judge Splice Today


Wednesday, August 14
How to Start a Professional Sports Team
Dan Moore The Ringer
Nate Silver Knows Who Will Win
David Freedlander New York Magazine
Joy Williams and the Wildest Decades of Her Life
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
Does the World Need a Great American Biracial Novel?
Tyler Austin Harper Atlantic
Boyle’s War
Maxwell Meyer Arena Magazine
American Vulcan
Jeremy Stern Tablet
Equality Is Good, Actually
Jeffery Tyler Syck Persuasion
What the Right Gets Wrong About Art
Roger Kimball TomKlingenstein.com
A Restored and Rejuvenated Games
Jim Geraghty National Review
No, Smoking Isn’t Back
Poppy Sowerby UnHerd
How Helen Phillips Wrote Hum
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
Questions of the Spirit
John Freeman Alta Online
The Wife Behind 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'
Tobias Grey Air Mail
Visit the Glenstone Museum
Mark Judge Washington Examiner
The Enduring Constitution
David Lewis Schaefer Law & Liberty
Our Civilizational Moment
Robert Nicholson Providence Magazine
Books Even More Insane Than You
Staff Language Arts


Thursday, August 15
In Concert With the Transcendent
Stephen G. Adubato RealClearBooks
‘Bad Monkey’ Is the Thrilling Beach Read of Prestige TV
Claire McNear The Ringer
We Need Moral Direction
Freya India GIRLS
8 Questions For... Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill & Eleanor Anstruther Eleanor’s Substack
Laboratory of the World
Charles F. McElwee City Journal
Gossip as a Literary Genre
Francesca Peacock Los Angeles Review of Books
Matt Rife’s Sleepless Summer
Carrie Battan The New Yorker
Shannon Sharpe Is One of the Best Worst Interviewers
Nadira Goffe Slate
Culture Froze in the Biden Era. Is It Finally Heating Up?
Ryan Broderick GQ
Althea Gibson Let the Racquet Do the Talking
Alisa Solomon The Nation
How to Respond to Tradwife Envy
Auguste Meyrat Chronicles
The Surprising Truth About Loneliness in America
Allie Volpe Vox
Phyllis Schlafly: The Original Tradwife
Sarah Ditum UnHerd


Friday, August 16
The Wound and the Show
Kazuo Robinson RealClearBooks
How I Learned to Love Mushrooms
Rob Long The Daily Beast
The 2024 Election Is a Marvel Universe
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Stop Telling Aliens We’re Here
Yascha Mounk Substack
My First Review
Arielle Isack The Baffler
The Profoundly Personal Minimalism of “Perfect Days”
Tyler Watamanuk Dirt
Tom Wolfe’s Irresistible Snap, Crackle and Pop
David Brooks New York Times
The Case for ‘Alien’ as Hollywood’s Greatest Franchise
Miles Surrey The Ringer
Talk to Me Nicely
Twitter’s Audrey Horne Wisdom of Crowds
A Paean to Nonhuman Life
Julia Case-Levine The Nation
The Gray Lady Sings
John Ketcham City Journal
Black and White and Bond All Over
Vanessa Thorpe Air Mail
How Agnès Varda Became an Icon of Cinema
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Scoundrel or Saint? A Return to Robin Hood
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
What Ever Happened to Dating?
D. Scott Sibley IFS
The Chappell Roan Formula for Success
Nate Sloan & Charlie Harding Vulture
Musk’s Two-Tier Vision of Free Speech
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ Fifty Years On
Ralph Leonard Quillette
Zoë Kravitz's (Shocking! Twisted! Brilliant!) Mind
Madison Vain Esquire
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Freddie deBoer on "Peak Woke" by Persuasion
Available this week: "Morning After the Revolution" by Nellie Bowles
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