RealClearBooks January 6, 2026 Archives

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Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud

Michael Waters New Yorker

Has Hollywood Already Forgotten the Fires?

Matthew Specktor The Hollywood Reporter

A New Year’s Resolution You Can Keep

Pamela Paresky Habits of a Free Mind

The 15 Most Anticipated Albums of 2026

Alan Light Esquire

The South Dies Every Day

P. S. Dean Southwest Review

Our Culture’s Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2026

Sam Franzini Our Culture

The Bonfire of the Implicit

Oliver Traldi The Dispatch

Mind the Gap

Alexa Margorian Cleveland Review of Books

Why Orwell Still Matters

John Rodden Acton Institute

Music, AI, and the Stagnation of Popular Culture

Noel Yaxley Chronicles

The Banal Spectacle of 'Avatar: Fire and Ash'

Stephen Kearse The Nation

12 New January Books

Jessica Blough & Elizabeth Casillas Alta Online

Workforce Systems That Endure

Jill Murray & William desRosiers RealClearPennsylvania

Acid Blues (Slight Return)

James McManus The American Scholar

$20 Trillion Question: How to Spend It and How Not To

William Murray RCEnergy