RealClearBooks Week of December 23, 2024 Archives

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Monday, December 23

The Push Pin Attitude

Ash Carter Air Mail

Rickey Henderson Was Hyperbole-Proof

Ben Lindbergh The Ringer

Bet on YouTube

Ross Barkan Political Currents

Why Sports Media Shunned Kamala Harris

Ethan Strauss House of Strauss

The Absurd Genius of Netflix Christmas Films

Kat Rosenfield The Free Press

The Great American Incel Novel

Harris Sockel Pirate Wires

Donald Trump’s Cultural Renaissance

David Samuels UnHerd

The Great Whitexican Novel

Levi Vonk Jacobin

'A Complete Unknown' Isn’t Really About Bob Dylan

Sam Adams Slate

How Wrestling Helped Trump Win the White House

Josh Glancy The Times

Johnny Come Late Night

Paul Beston City Journal

One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts

Adrian Nathan West NYTimes

A Book to Topple a Regime

Lee Edwards TomKlingenstein.com

The Cruelty Is the Point

Yascha Mounk Substack

The 12 Oscar Contenders of Christmas

Nate Jones Vulture

Tuesday, December 24

‘Nosferatu’ Is Accomplished and Masterful (Derogatory)

Adam Nayman The Ringer

The Best Music Books of 2024

Staff Rolling Stone

How to Give a Real Gift

Tara Isabella Burton The Free Press

Loving to Lose

Peter Tonguette The American Conservative

Alice Munro’s Passive Voice

Rachel Aviv The New Yorker

The Southern Origins of Eggnog

Chase Steely The Pamphleteer

Soap Opera Thriller

Jorge Cotte The Nation

Gen Z’s Politics Are Hard to Categorize

Ross Barkan The Guardian

Our Holiday Reading Picks

Editors Law & Liberty

The Case for Greenland

G.B. Rango Pirate Wires

What I've Learned: Robbie Williams

Michael Sebastian Esquire

In Search of a New 20th-Century Canon

John Mullan New Statesman

Best Books of 2024

Staff Toronto Star

The Betty Friedan Mystique

Ian Dowbiggin Chronicles

The Lie Before Christmas

Hannah Swerling Air Mail

Notes on Reading

Catherine Lacey Untitled Thought Project

Wednesday, December 25

'A Complete Unknown' Misses the Genius of Bob Dylan

Adam Nayman New Republic

The 7 Most Important Athletes of 2024

Will Leitch NYMag

How Christmas Became an All-American Holiday

Samuel Goldman Compact

Have We Officially Ruined the Martini?

Jason Diamond Esquire

The Best & Worst Movies I Watched in 2024

Andy Fowler Andy’s Newsletter

Western Civilization Gets Glicked

Joseph Holmes Law & Liberty

Christmas Tree Diary

Jake Maynard The Paris Review

I Took Religion Out of Christmas. I Regret It.

Larissa Phillips The Free Press

Richard Curtis’s Christmas Carol

George Monaghan The New Statesman

The Best Albums of 2024

David Hajdu The Nation

Bob Dylan In The Movies

Elizabeth Nelson GQ

Best Books of 2024

Anthony Domestico Commonweal

A Christmastime Homage to Tony Bennett

Michael Feinstein Vanity Fair

Bing Crosby’s Irish and American Christmas

Emina Melonic Chronicles

Friday, December 27

A Misdiagnosis of Substance Abuse

Lester Munson RealClearBooks

Why Watch the Los Angeles Lakers?

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

The Torture of an Unphilosophical Life

Agnes Callard UnHerd

Luigi Mangione and the American Abyss

Heather Mac Donald City Journal

How to Recapture the Lost ‘Literary Men’

Mark Judge Chronicles

‘Squid Game’ Is Asking Even Darker Questions

Brian Phillips The Ringer

20 Books Coming in January

Staff New York Times

This Was the Year of Elevated Trash

Louis Peitzman Vulture

The Problem With 'Wicked'

Odie Henderson Slate

Poets on the Best Poems They Read in 2024

Brittany Cavallaro LitHub

‘Squid Game’ Season 2

Aramide Tinubu Variety

Where the Tech Right and Restrictionists Can Agree

Mark Krikorian Compact

How RealClear Will Cover the New Administration

David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: The Christmas Wars Strike Back by Compact

Available this week: "Didion and Babitz" by Lili Anolik

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