RealClearBooks April 21, 2026 Archives

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Our Longing for Inconvenience

Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker

Who Killed the Florida Orange?

Alexander Sammon Slate

Alone Together

Sam Adler-Bell The Drift

Could ‘A River Runs Through It’ Have Been a Hit Today?

Monte Burke NYTimes

My Father, the Midcentury Man

Mychal Denzel Smith The New Republic

Bad Bets

Jude Russo Commonplace

The New American Steakhouse

Bettina Makalintal Eater

The Work of No Future

Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work

The Playboy Interview: Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson The Playboy Reader

“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get?

Ryan Carroll Public Books

A New Wild West in Jackson, Louisiana

James Taylor Foreman The Dispatch

How Much Privacy Do You Expect?

Naomi Brockwell The Freeman

The Return of the Townhouse

Brad Hargreaves City Journal

The Importance of Bill James

Sam Kahn Castalia

A Justice in Full

Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty

A Lost Art

Diane Scharper Washington Examiner

Andy Weir’s Optimistic Vision in ‘Project Hail Mary’

Iona Italia Quillette

The Dark Heart of the Kidfluencer Industry

Ella Dorn The New Statesman