RealClearBooks December 8, 2025 Archives

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Chloé Zhao Has Looked Into the Void

Michael Schulman The New Yorker

The College Football Playoff Chose Outrage

Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer

Getting Intimate With Updike

Andrew Ferguson Washington Free Beacon

Freedom in a Box

Sophia Fiedler The Metropolitan Review

Luigi Pirandello’s Broken Men

Gus O’Connor The Nation

Being a Writer in the Age of the Influencer

Rob Henderson Substack

Ken Burns' Egregious Omission

Emina Melonic Civitas Outlook

“Cozy Lit” Became the Most Shameless Form of Escapism

Greta Rainbow Walrus

Olivia Nuzzi and the Sport of Kings

Lisa Taddeo Air Mail

A Prisoner’s Cinema—A Review

Stephen Pimentel IM—1776

What Jill Lepore Knows About Harvard

Eboo Patel Persuasion

High and Halcyon Region of Magic

Bethany Tabor Romanticon

We Need More Leftist Crime Fiction

Zeb Larson Jacobin

Out of Sight

James Varney RealClearInvestigations

Mourning Routine: The Cult of Performative Work

Christopher Gage Oxford Sour

It’s Still Not OK, Boomer

J. Oliver Conroy The Guardian

Rental Americanism

Gage Klipper Chronicles