RealClearBooks May 13, 2026 Archives

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What 'The Sheep Detectives' Doesn’t Get About Sheep

Jill Lepore New Yorker

Are the Knicks a Mirage, a Moment, or the Real Thing?

Michael Pina The Ringer

Does Sydney Sweeney Make You Uncomfortable?

Suzy Weiss The Free Press

At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire

Frank DiGiacomo The Hollywood Reporter

What We Call the West

Nicolás Medina Mora The Nation

Christopher Nolan Has Been Dreaming of 'The Odyssey'

Eliana Dockterman Time

The Clippening

Mia Sato The Verge

LeBron Lost the GOAT Debate

Ethan Strauss House of Strauss

Tony Leung Still Believes in the Movies

Raymond Ang GQ

Doubling Down

Michael Knapp Dissent

Karl Urban Is Ready to Unlock the Next Level

Eric Francisco Esquire

The Ballerina and the Baby

Julie Schechter The Republic of Letters

Living in Public

Jared Henderson Magazine Non Grata

Rara Avis: Professor Finds Harvard’s Faults

John Staddon James Martin Center

Mac Barnett, Come on Down

Meghan Cox Gurdon WSJ Free Expression

George Saunders Never Gives Up On a Character

Kaitlyn Greenidge Substack

Taking the Villain’s Part

Hannah Smart Cleveland Review of Books

You Can’t Trust Anything Anyone Writes

Talia Barnes Persuasion

AI Policy Must Fail Gracefully

Nat Purser Asterisk Magazine