RealClearBooks Week of November 11, 2024 Archives

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Monday, November 11
Everything You Need to Know About Grammy Nominations
Nora Princiotti Ringer
The Cleveland Cavaliers Are Dialed In
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Quincy Jones Should Be Remembered Jazz
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
Can We Please Have Less Political Art Now?
Kat Rosenfield Boston Globe
In Defense of 'Cruising'
Blake Smith Air Mail
Joan Didion & Eve Babitz: Contemporaries, Peers, Rivals
Marisa Meltzer NYTimes
Liberation from Libertinism
Elizabeth Grace Matthew Law & Liberty
On Loving America
Peggy Noonan The Free Press
Is the Femininomenon Still Happening?
Cat Zhang The Cut
Get in the Crystal
James Duesterberg The Point
The Death of the Liberal Media
Mo Diggs Cross Current
How Could This Happen?
Matthew Burdette Theology of Culture
How to Understand the Election Results
Noah Kumin Mars Review of Books
Heart of Semi-Darkness
Tim Carman The American Scholar
How Jews Made American Culture Great
Mark Judge Hot Air
The Anti-Racism Clown Show
Paul du Quenoy Chronicles
Great Prizes
George Monaghan Peaceable Land


Tuesday, November 12
From Guilty Pleasure to a Quality Series
Auguste Meyrat RealClearBooks
Kevin Costner Hates ‘Yellowstone’
Claire McNear The Ringer
Culture in the Age of Trump
Matthew Gasda Compact
Real Dolls
Kara Rota Los Angeles Review of Books
A History of R.E.M.
Christopher J. Scalia Washington Examiner
Come to Harm
Adrian Nathan West The Baffler
Dwayne Johnson Is Trying to Disappear
Zach Baron GQ
Why #MeToo Generation Young Men Swung to Trump
Lee Fang Substack
Can Democrats Keep Young Men From Turning Fascist?
Kate Aronoff New Republic
'Conclave': A Shallow but Posh Papal Potboiler
Eileen Jones Jacobin
I'm Glad He Won
Emma Collins A New Heaven
Melania
Isabella Redjai IM—1776
Martha Stewart Still Doesn’t Feel Understood
Lane Florsheim Wall Street Journal
We Need Raw Awe
Kirk Schneider Aeon
Why Gossip Is Fatal to Good Writing
Lynn Steger Strong The Atlantic
‘Gladiator II’ Review
Owen Gleiberman Variety


Wednesday, November 13
Only in The New Yorker
Kazuo Robinson RealClearBooks
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
Louis Menand The New Yorker
Is Technology Destroying Marriage?
Trae Stephens Pirate Wires
Richard Price’s Radical, Retrograde Novel
Tyler Austin Harper The Atlantic
Americans Just Said No to Drugs
Charles Fain Lehman The Free Press
Hawthorne’s Mood Swings
Tim Parks New York Review of Books
Was Houellebecq Right?
Gavin Mortimer The Critic
The Bewilderment of the Pod Boys
Isaac Simpson The American Mind
Fitful Glimpses and Spurts
Katie Kadue Los Angeles Review of Books
Back to the Jackal
Brian Viner Air Mail
Can Democrats Compete With the Rogan-verse?
Natalie Korach Vanity Fair
The Sun Also Sets
Paul Dean The New Criterion
No Man Is an Island
David K. Anderson Plough
The Sheer Gusto of Jane DeLynn
Colm Tóibín The Nation
Mike Tyson, in Conversation With Rosie Perez
Rosie Perez Interview
‘The Penguin’ Succeeds Where ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Failed
Cole Murphy Dispatch
The Woman Who Defined the Great Depression
Scott Bradfield The New Republic
A Question
Becca Rothfeld Substack
Beckett Rosset's Reading List
Staff Language Arts


Thursday, November 14
The History of Wokeness
Stephen G. Adubato RealClearBooks
After ‘The Penguin,’ What Will Become of the Batverse?
Daniel Chin The Ringer
Love in the Time of Menopause
Valerie Stivers Compact
Stuck in Reverse
Gord Magill American Compass
Technologies of Transcendence
Tobias Huber & Byrne Hobart Pirate Wires
Preserving Our Identity as Makers
J.C. Scharl Acton Institute
On Classical Education
Micah Meadowcroft TomKlingenstein.com
On Esther Kinsky’s “Seeing Further”
Saffron Maeve Cleveland Review of Books
Ladies, Stop Sex Striking for Kamala
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
A Disaster Season Like No Other
Alex Kirshner Slate
Why Libraries Need Librarians
Constance Grady Vox
Decline and Folly
Oliver Jia Quillette
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024
Staff Time
The Creative World Takes On A.I.
Erin Griffith The New York Times
Automotive Asphyxiation
The Ivy Exile Substack
The Paradoxes of Frank Auerbach
Michael Prodger The New Statesman


Friday, November 15
Victor Wembanyama Is Letting It Rip
Isaac Levy-Rubinett The Ringer
Into the Phones of Teens
Naomi Fry The New Yorker
What's Your American Dream?
Meaghan Garvey SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE
The Gender War Wants to Divide You
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
We Need to Talk About ‘Toxic Femininity’
Mark Hemingway Federalist
Ghosts in the Mirror
Stephen Piccarella The Baffler
Trump’s Masculine Appeal
Aaron M. Renn City Journal
Why I Don’t Rate Pizza Pie
Oliver Bateman Splice Today
Dear Journalists: Stop Trying to Save Democracy
Yascha Mounk Substack
Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button
Louise Perry First Things
How the Democrats Bud Lighted Their Brand
Bridget Phetasy Spectator World
The Real Problem with X
David Polansky Fusion
How Helene Gave Way to 'Hurricane Snafu'
James Varney RealClearInvestigations
CTA CEO Gary Shapiro's 'Pivot or Die'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
The Response To Art Is Everything
Greg Gerke Liberties
Old Person Attempts Kickball
Dave Barry The Miami Herald
Why RealClear Needs Its Readers
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Compact Conversations by Compact
Available this week: "Didion and Babitz" by Lili Anolik
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