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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Our Picks in Books, 2023

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On today's holiday-week short podcast we offer you our selection for the best or most meaningful books we've read in 2023, from a 1978 discourse on lying to an Israeli novel about American anti-Semitism to a book about American breakdown to the best play of the century—and a comedian's memoir. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Virgin Atlantic sale, it's a big deal, wherever you want to go in the world,

0:06.0

whether you want a big bite of the big apple, or to live at large in LA and Las Vegas.

0:12.0

And now, even if even for going big in Dubai but the biggest

0:16.5

deal of all you can book right now the Virgin Atlantic, see the world differently.

0:25.0

Tees and see supply.

0:28.0

See Virgin Atlantic.com for details. else. the worst. Some bring Champagne, some die of hers. The way of knowing which way it's going.

0:49.6

Hope for the best expect the worst. the editor of Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

0:57.0

Today is Wednesday, December 27th, 2023.

1:00.3

I'm John Podhoritz, the editor of Commentary magazine.

1:04.3

This is our special short week effort

1:09.4

to provide you with some entertainment

1:12.2

in the form of recommendations of things, cultural products

1:17.3

that we liked in the past year. They're not necessarily books published in the past year. They are books that we read in the past year. They are books that we read in the past year with profits.

1:25.0

So we're doing books yesterday.

1:27.0

We did movies.

1:29.0

I'll just remind you, if I can remember correctly,

1:32.0

we picked Oppenheimer we picked

1:34.9

blast of silence from 1961 we picked a movie that hasn't even opened yet called The Taste of Things that comes out in 2024.

1:48.3

I can't even remember.

1:51.2

Operation Fortune.

1:52.2

Operation Fortune, losez de Gere, and then I also mentioned the covenant by the same director, Guy

1:57.6

Ritchie.

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