RealClearBooks Week of August 19, 2024 Archives

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Monday, August 19
‘Alien: Romulus’ Is a Propulsive Rocket on Autopilot
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Book Bars Gain Momentum
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner Eater
The Progressive Case for Parenthood
Elizabeth Grace Matthew Law & Liberty
Students Need Tech-Free Classrooms
Alex Priou Newsweek
On Nietzsche and Our Crisis of Masculinity
Mat Messerschmidt The Point
A Conversation with Naomi Kanakia
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Does It Take a Government to Censor?
Oliver Traldi Washington Examiner
An Anxious Generation—of Parents
Carrie McKean Christianity Today
People Are Trying Mushrooms and Meeting God
Cassady Rosenblum Rolling Stone
In Praise of The Karate Kid
Spencer Klavan Rejoice Evermore
Taking a Risk With Nate Silver
Charles Fain Lehman Washington Free Beacon
Revisiting Larkin
Henry Oliver The Common Reader
Language and the Politics of the Swarm
Matthew Burdette Theology of Culture
Why Is There No Travel Writing?
Sam Kahn Inner Life
The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 (So Far)
Molly Templeton Esquire
The Tech Right Galvanized Lana Del Rey
Aaron Cummings Cracks in Postmodernity
Rebuilding: New Tech, Old Principles
Robin Burk Chronicles
The March of Kamala’s Brides
David Samuels UnHerd
Stars at Work
Sam Wasson Air Mail


Tuesday, August 20
Paul Skenes Is a Heroic Figure
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion Is Too Big to Fail
Alan Light Esquire
Colorblindness in the Public and Private Sphere
Glenn Loury Substack
Death by Vibes
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
A Steamy, Noirish New Literary Beach Read
Ross Barkan Mars Review of Books
Sports Betting Is Leading to More Bankruptcies
Zaid Jilani The American Saga
Alain Delon: His Life In Photos
Eve Batey Vanity Fair
When You’re Too Obsessed With Channing Tatum
Angelica Jade Bastién Vulture
To Have or Have Not
Dominic Preziosi Commonweal
How Chaucer Remade Language
Camille Ralphs Poetry Foundation
The Beginning and End of Postmodern America
Joshua Mitchell TomKlingenstein.com
A Deep Dive Into WH Auden’s Early Years
Rachel Cooke The Guardian
Percival Everett’s Great American Novel
Omari Weekes The Nation
The Next Great Teen Detective Show
Nadira Goffe Slate


Wednesday, August 21
Todd Phillips Tells All on Making ‘Joker 2’
Brent Lang Variety
How Gena Rowlands Redefined the Art of Acting
Richard Brody The New Yorker
On Post Malone's 'F-1 Trillion'
Meaghan Garvey Pitchfork
Matthew Davis' Reading List
Staff Language Arts
Toward the Recovery of American Culture
Matthew Gasda American Affairs
The Resilience of Natural Law
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
Millennium Man
Avetis Muradyan IM—1776
The Literati Aren’t Reading New Releases Anymore
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
Amy Clampitt, the ‘Late Bloomer’ of Poetry
Diane Scharper America Magazine
How Ireland Became the World’s Literary Powerhouse
Kate McCusker The Guardian
Rachel Cusk’s Inverted World
Rumaan Alam The New Republic
On Some Recent Translator’s Notes
Cary Stough Cleveland Review of Books
Post Malone Went Full Country
Carl Wilson Slate
When Is It Okay to Not Finish a Book?
Sophie Vershbow The Atlantic
A Singular Man
Pico Iyer Air Mail
Being Human in a Digitally Disembodied World
Mark Judge Washington Examiner
Jim Harbaugh’s Been Born Again in L.A.
Danny Heifetz The Ringer


Thursday, August 22
Post Malone Made Himself at Home in Country Music
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker
Fifty Years of Paying Attention
Dan Kois Slate
A Fresh Look at Frida Kahlo
Luiza Franco Americas Quarterly
What I Learned From Francisco Lindor About Writing
Andrew Boryga Dwell
‘The Crow’ Endures as a Testament to Brandon Lee
Miles Surrey The Ringer
Guy Davenport—the Last High Modernist
David Schurman Wallace The Nation
We Are the Borg
Sam Kean The American Scholar
How A ‘Safe Drug’ Turned Deadly For Matthew Perry
Rob Long The Daily Beast
Jane Austen’s American Spirit
Michael Lucchese The Dispatch
Post Malone’s Country Album Has Too Much Baggage
Craig Jenkins Vulture
New York Publishing in the Late-Aughts
Aaron Lake Smith Empty Railroad Gulch
What Lasts and (Mostly) Doesn't Last
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
Book Burners for Our Year Zero
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles


Friday, August 23
Hozier Thought About Taking a Long Break
Larisha Paul Rolling Stone
When Emily Dickinson Mailed It In
Kamran Javadizadeh The New Yorker
The Legacy of 'BoJack Horseman'
Alan Siegel The Ringer
Make America Beautiful Again
Justin Shubow TomKlingenstein.com
Straight Man
Oliver Traldi Fusion
Harold Bloom in Silicon Valley
Henry Oliver The Common Reader
Good News from an Independent Bookshop
John Byron Kuhner First Things
How a Citizen Can Think Like a King
Hans Zeiger Modern Age
Gates-Crasher
Nicole Kobie Air Mail
A Match Made in Memes
Brittany Menjivar Los Angeles Review of Books
Spilled Oil: On Lydia Kiesling’s “Mobility”
Kim Hew-Low Cleveland Review of Books
Why the Media Moves in Unison
Yascha Mounk Substack
Columbia Agonistes
The Ivy Exile Substack
Where are Today’s Athlete Journalists?
Mark Judge Chronicles
Lana Del Rey Embraces Classic French Style
Christian Allaire Vogue
The Confidence Man in American Politics
Frank W. Garmon Jr. RealClearHistory
A Little-Known Film Is a John Wayne Gem
John P. Rossi American Spectator
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Old and the New by Compact
Available this week: "Let Me Try Again" by Matthew Davis
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