RealClearBooks January 20, 2026 Archives

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When a Man Loves a Cello

John Phipps The New Yorker

Sean McDermott Couldn’t Get Buffalo Over the Hump

Nora Princiotti The Ringer

The Education of the Broligarchy

Blake Smith Colossus

Authorship in an Age of Automation

Kieran Beville Quillette

Lonesome Crowded West

Bart Schaneman The Republic of Letters

Language Arts

Meghan Racklin The Baffler

The Rise of the Soulless Novel

Liza Libes Pens and Poison

On Jim Jarmusch’s 'Father Mother Sister Brother'

Adam Nayman New Republic

David Lynch, American Surrealist

Emina Melonic Modern Age

‘Looksmaxxing’ & the Crisis Facing Young Men

Thomas Chatterton Williams Atlantic

What Gambling Has Done to Sports—and to Us

Danny Funt The Free Press

After Every Clue

Adam Hochschild The Nation

Can Father Even Know Best Anymore?

Troy M. Olson The Frank Forum

The Problem With 'Hamnet'

Isaac Butler Slate

Christ Agonistes

Michael Ledger-Lomas The Metropolitan Review

Burning Baskets

Andrew Fowler RealClearReligion

Dubious Luxury

Emma Collins A New Heaven

The Work of the Blue Ridge Parkway

Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work

Worlds Haunted Not by God

Jonah Howell Cracks in Postmodernity