RealClearBooks Week of January 13, 2025 Archives

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Monday, January 13
Who Should We Emulate?
Andrew Fowler RealClearBooks
An American Werewolf in Antwerp
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Girlboss Is Sleeping With the Intern
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
The Storytelling of Clint Eastwood
Emina Melonic Law & Liberty
The Death and Life of Bohemia
Matthew Gasda First Things
Rough Turkish
Jude Russo The Lamp Magazine
On Herzog's Memoirs
Kevin Kautzman Athwart
The Unmutable Morrissey
A. G. Gancarski Modern Age
Faces of Transhumanism
Alexei Dyumin IM—1776
Is Anyone Shocked by 'Babygirl'?
Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic
Martin Amis and the Changing of the Guard
David Herman Salmagundi
Putting the Thrill Back in the Spy Thriller
Alexander Larman Washington Free Beacon
The Secret Life of James Dean
Jason Colavito Air Mail
Bob Dylan Is Having a Moment. His No. 1 Hater Is Ready.
Corey Kilgannon NYTimes
On 'Mood Machine'
Sasha Frere-Jones 4Columns
My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker


Tuesday, January 14
The Sordid Scene
Michael Patrick F. Smith RealClearBooks
The Year of the NFL’s Running Back Revival
Diante Lee The Ringer
The Tiger Mother Roars Back
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
How Bob Dylan Fought the Proto-Woke
David Samuels UnHerd
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
Daniel Bessner The Nation
Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of SNL
Susan Morisson The New Yorker
Mr. Lonely
Zoe Hu Dissent
When Parenting is Politicized
Elizabeth Grace Matthew Law & Liberty
When the Fire Comes
Adam Kirsch Compact
Yukio Mishima’s Lifelong Death Wish
Yo Zushi The New Statesman
The 2000s and the End of American Optimism
Paul M. Renfro New Republic
Bad Bunny Phoned Home
Craig Jenkins Vulture
'Landman' Is a Dumb Waste of a Great Premise
Ross Anderson Spectator World
A New Direction for Sesame Street?
David Kamp Air Mail


Wednesday, January 15
The New Semantics of the Kafkaesque
Chloe Pingeon RealClearBooks
The Enigmatic Artistry of Terrence Malick
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Touching Grass is Good For You — Literally
Riley Nork Pirate Wires
For the Love of the Word
Daegan Miller Poetry Foundation
An Argentine Novelist Takes On #MeToo
Andrea Moncada Americas Quarterly
‘Severance’ Is Finally Back
Jake Kleinman The Ringer
The Great Winter 2025 Book Preview
Staff The Millions
The Slow Death of the California Dream
Riva-Melissa Tez Spectator World
‘Experts’ Killed Trust in Vaccines
Karol Markowicz UnHerd
Revolt Against Stoicism
Alessandra Bocchi Alata Magazine
How “The Brutalist” Brutalizes History
Noah Millman Modern Age
Fairytale in the Supermarket
Erik Baker The Baffler
The Happiest of the Poets
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
Lola Kirke's Reading List
Lola Kirke Language Arts
Ron Manners' 'The Impatient Libertarian'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Which Publisher Has the Best Classics Line?
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters


Thursday, January 16
Two Dad Memoirs and the End of Fatherhood
Valerie Stivers RealClearBooks
Coco Gauff Edits Her Game
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Porn Is Inevitable
River Page The Free Press
Ridley Scott Is Not Looking Back
Chris Heath GQ
Kurt Russell Hates Commies
Jenna Stocker A Pilgrim’s Progress
Public Life Beyond Politics
John G. Grove Fusion
Pasolini and the Permanent Present
Barry Schwabsky The Point
'Landman' Is the Perfect Show for Our Times
Rebecca Onion Slate
Zuckerberg Opts for Free Speech—After Thinking It Over
Martin Gurri City Journal
In Defense of Travel Teams
Michael Brendan Dougherty Commonplace
Olga Tokarczuk’s New Rules for Realism
Jess Cotton The Nation
The Hipster Grifter Peaked Too Soon
Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic
Piety, Love, and the Permanent Things
Daniel Pitt Law & Liberty
More Than A Game
Tom Piatak Chronicles


Friday, January 17
The Unbearable Burden
Sam Buntz RealClearBooks
Playoff Paradise in the D
Alan Siegel The Ringer
Believe for Your Own Sake, Not for "the West"
Tara Isabella Burton Wisdom of Crowds
The End of the End of Men
Ryan Zickgraf Compact
The Road From ‘Cheers’ to Church
Maggie Phillips Tablet
Our Government's War on Anonymity
James Ostrowski Pirate Wires
Kieran Culkin Is a Mercurial Pleasure in 'A Real Pain'
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
'Severance' Season 2 Is the Best Show on TV
Josh Rosenberg Esquire
David Lynch Was a Singular Filmmaker
Owen Gleiberman Variety
Gay Talese Keeps Notes, Especially on Everyone’s Clothes
Sadie Stein NYTimes
Neil Gaiman and the Perils of BDSM
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
How to Win an Election Against the Communists
Santi Ruiz Statecraft
Glenn Loury’s Augustinian Turn
Brad Tuggle Modern Age
The Troubled Upbringing Trend
Erich J. Prince Chronicles
Clownish Biden Warns of ‘Oligarchy’
Raheem J. Kassam The National Pulse
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: You Need to Read More by Contra
Available this week: "Backbone" by Karl Zinsmeister
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