RealClearBooks May 7, 2026 Archives

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Muriel Spark, the Double Agent

Audrey Wollen The New Yorker

Could Claude Mythos Actually Destroy the Internet?

Brian Phillips The Ringer

Inside The Diamond Game

Harry Khachatrian The Daily Wire

Arguing with the NYT's Songwriter List

Sam Jennings Vita Contemplativa

Generational Recurse

Brianna Di Monda The Baffler

The Uncomfortable Lightness of Dark Academia

Roxanne Panchasi Public Books

Shooting the Suns

Nicholas Bequelin The Ideas Letter

Ted Turner’s Mark on Atlanta Lived On

Rick Rojas New York Times

The New Terrorists

Katherine Dee Tablet

Lena Dunham Is Still Adulting

Emma Camp WSJ Free Expression

Is Living in Middle America Odd?

Peter Tonguette The American Conservative

The Use and Abuse of Joan Didion

Henry Reichman Hedgehog Review

Keats in Technicolor

Matthew Gasda Romanticon

Fame! A Misunderstanding

Matthew Lamb Los Angeles Review of Books

In the Reckless Hour

Barry Schwabsky The Point

Dickens Doubled

Joel J. Miller The Republic of Letters

A Locksmith’s Love

Nadya Williams Front Porch Republic

Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Districting

James Piereson New Criterion

Spring Jazz Roundup

Chris Robinson POW Magazine

EAST VILLAGE, NYC (1984) “Art Parties”

Blake Nelson Travels to Distant Cities

Are You There Grok? It's Me, Margaret

Jerusalem Demsas The Argument

The Bromance of Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul

Sirena He Esquire

The Profoundly Weird Race for Rookie of the Year

Nate Silver Silver Bulletin

MAGA Isn’t Finished. It’s Just Getting Started

Roger Kimball The Spectator

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Pre-Industrial Life Was Worse by City Journal

Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan

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