RealClearBooks January 15, 2026 Archives

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'The Chronology of Water' Is an Extraordinary Début

Richard Brody The New Yorker

Prediction Markets Turned Life Into a Dystopian Experiment

Brian Phillips Ringer

Being a Bookseller Isn’t What It Was

Maria Albano The Spectator

The Cult of Karl Ove Knausgaard

Erin Somers Air Mail

Profile in First Amendment Courage: Alan Dershowitz

David DesRosiers RCPolitics

The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul

Ted Gioia The Honest Broker

The Millions’ Great Winter 2026 Preview

Editor The Millions

Icarus in Alaska

Anthony Galluzzo Romanticon

The Exilic Style

Jonah Howell The Metropolitan Review

The Long Breath of the World

Nyuol Lueth Tong Los Angeles Review of Books

Everything Americans Need to Know About Cricket

Nicole James The Freeman

The White Women Turning to ‘Dark Woke’

Emily Jashinsky UnHerd

Nuremberg’s Misstep on Emmy Göring

Amanda Rothschild In the Crease

Author Spotlight: David Fishkind

Sam Franzini Our Culture

Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Delivering 120 ‘Marshall Plans’

William Murray Federalist