Real Clear Books Thursday

Sex and God in the South - David Gordon, VICE
Investing in Foreign Stocks - Value Walk
When Eleanor Roosevelt Met Her Lover - Susan Quinn, The Daily Beast
Charging Your Business Brain for 2017 - Michael Solomon, Forbes
Kirk and the Hope for Recovery - James E. Person, Jr., University Bookman
Putin's Master Plan - Joseph Goulden, The Washington Times
Plea For Reading in College - Willard Dix, Forbes
Cocktail Made From Old Books - Jessica Sidman, Washingtonian
Moonglow - Jonathan Elderfield, The Washington Post
An Artist's Life Manifesto - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

New Excerpts

What It's Like to Go to War - Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal
The Framers' Coup - Michael J. Klarman, RealClearBooks
5 Years With Trump's Supporters - Arlie Russell Hochschild, Mother Jones
A Pilot's Son, Flying Solo - Stephen Rodrick, Men's Journal

Real Clear Books Wednesday

Morning Update
Baby Boomers Are the Luckiest Generation - Daniel Asa Rose, Harper's
Some Faces of War - Mackubin Owens, The Weekly Standard
Inside a Moneymaking Machine - Katherine Burton, Bloomberg
Transcendence of Science - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
Searching for John Hughes - Drew Toal, NPR
The Passion of Martin Scorsese - Paul Elie, The New York Times Magazine
Conversation with Zadie Smith - Isaac Chotiner, Slate
Love and Death in Revolution Square - Vadim Nikitin, Dissent
Things They Burned in Iraq and Afghanistan - Jen Percy, The New Republic
Corruption in Tonga's Paradise - Wall & Ensor, Stuff

Real Clear Books Tuesday

Morning Update
Best Books for Baby Boomers - Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal
Lessons Learned at War? - Mackubin Owens, The Weekly Standard
The Lost Art of Letter Writing - Jon McGregor, The Guardian
Life of a Daily Stoic - Ryan Holiday, Business Insider
American Blood Brothers - J. Kemper Campbell, Lincoln Journal Star
Life Under Apartheid - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Sweet Familiar Fantasy With a Twist - Caitlyn Paxson, NPR
Army Lawyer Shares Favorite Books - Dan Maurer, Modern War Institute
The Heart Goes Last - Sarah Berry, The Millions
Wedding Bush Road - Andrea Arnold, Electric Literature

Real Clear Books Monday

Morning Update
Roots of Liberal Condescension - William Voegeli, Claremont Rev. of Books
Scholars Talk Writing - Rachel Toor, Chronicle of Higher Education
Jon Stewart Gets His Due - Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Ambrose Bierce Never Returned From War - Bruce Fleming, Free Beacon
Liberals' Response is 'Outrage Porn' - Eric Sasson, The New Republic
Talking to Chabon, Others - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
A True Fantasy Novel - Annalisa Quinn, NPR
How a Library Saved Her Life - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
New and Noteworthy Books - Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today
Lawyer Penning Books About Presidents - Jay Miller, Crain's Cleveland Biz

Real Clear Books Saturday

Morning Update
These Are the Best Books of 2016 - Kevin Nguyen, GQ
Books, Books, Books - Aaron MacLean, Washington Free Beacon
Alan Furst, the Anti-Fascist Novelist - Sean Elder, Newsweek
Mattis, Military Are More Than Caricature - Waters & Craig, RCDefense
The Gods Never Left Us - Charles Baxter, The Nation
Healing Heart of Democracy - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
Bright Lights, Small Government - Max Holleran, The New Republic
Wilde's Scandalous Brilliance - Erin Zaleski, The Daily Beast
New Adventures of Michael Chabon - Heller McAlpin, NPR
The Dancer and the Dance - Claire Messud, New York Review of Books
Feminism Makes Weak Women - Dennis Prager, National Review
Child Brides - Libby Copeland, Slate

Real Clear Books Friday

Morning Update
Hope in the Rubble of the American Dream - Amy Weiss-Meyer, Atlantic
8 Books Bound for the Small Screen - Tracy Mumford, Minn. Public Radio
Mystery Books that Inspired 'Mockingbird' - CJ Lotz, Garden & Gun
The Artistry of a Film Master - Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The A.V. Club
Nothing Can Kill Our Love of Books - Ballatore & Natale, Quartz
Mixed Emotions On US-China Ties - Jeffrey Wassterstrom, Financial Times
Black Widow - Muriel Dobbin, The Washington Times
Daily Show Oral History - Jeff Labrecque, Entertainment Weekly
Exposure - Claire Hopley, The Washington Times
Brian Wilson's Memoir - C.W. Mahoney, Washington Free Beacon