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Don DeLillo once remarked, with regard to twentieth-century American fiction, that it is “as though Hemingway died one day and Pynchon... Read More

Gord Magill is angry. The veteran trucker followed in the occupational footsteps of his father and grandfather, but they would barely... Read More

Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain, the story of an unnamed narrator undergoing a rare, sudden and life-threatening medical crisis, was... Read More

Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party had a scary Halloween last year. On October 31, 2025, a gunmetal-colored, bullet-shaped object... Read More

The right side of Twitter spent the morning after Super Bowl LX trying very hard not to say something obvious. Bad Bunny had just... Read More

Standing beside a shelf of bestsellers with some friends at McNally Jackson Seaport in downtown Manhattan, Meg Charlton, a writer, recalled... Read More

“Meet him at the lobby entrance at 1 p.m. You’ll recognize him :)” That’s the only instruction. At 1 p.m., Benicio... Read More

When his mother decides he’s too gifted for public school and says she’ll be homeschooling him for fifth grade, Stefan Block has... Read More

It’s hard for the Winter Olympics to compete with the Summer Games. Dozens of skiing and skating variations can’t really compare... Read More

In our wayward teenage years, we played a game known colloquially as Council Estate Roulette. The ancients called it coitus interruptus.... Read More

For twenty-six years, CBS’s Survivor has positioned itself as a grand experiment in traditional American meritocracy. Any... Read More

There’s nothing more villainous, no figure more reviled, than a bad mother. This is what we’ve been told time and again, in... Read More

Time marches on, but literary discourse is eternal. The last week has seen a revival of the “should aspiring fiction writers actually... Read More

“WHAT IS THAT? What’s down there?” I overheard an electrical technician say this as he peered into the dark space beneath... Read More

On the first day of September, Guido Reichstadter made his way into San Francisco’s SoMa neighbourhood, and positioned himself near an... Read More

By the end of September, everyone had left. They had all been accepted into college. I had not. Fine, I thought. I’ll take a... Read More

Toward the end of this essay, I’m going to tell you about the time 30 years ago when Jim Harrison — the singular American poet... Read More

Dormancy: The Precondition of Spring In the mornings before work I walk through a large city park for coffee and some quiet reading time.... Read More

Scott Galloway can be annoying. In his book, Notes on Being a Man, he admits as much. A serial entrepreneur, popular podcast host, and... Read More

Why is the Right so appealing to young women novelists? The protagonists of Anika Jade Levy’s Flat Earth and Madeline... Read More

A few months ago, the musician Patrick Cosmos shared a “new unified theory of American reality” that he called “everyone is... Read More

“There are some who say the word Odradek comes from the Slavic and they look for its etymology there. There are others who say... Read More

That bad, bad time, exacerbated by the lawsuit McCartney filed on December 31, 1970, after John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr... Read More

It seems as if every year at the Oscars, another of the Academy’s old biases falls by the wayside. Genre films like Everything... Read More

I spent much of the final year of my internal medicine residency in a windowless workroom on the seventh floor of a hospital in Boston. The... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with... Read More

This article was originally published at The Empowerment Alliance and is re-published here with permission.  Did the far left... Read More

You can call me a daring and courageous and visionary “high-tech” pioneering trailblazer with nerves of steel if you want, but... Read More

Are Millennials the least freedom-loving generation in American history? It sometimes looks that way. They’re the original Occupiers of... Read More