RealClearBooks May 18, 2026 Archives

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The Fastball Has Never Been Faster

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

The Indies Are Dying. Long Live the Indies

Scott Roxborough The Hollywood Reporter

The 100 Best Novels of All Time

Multiple authors The Guardian

An Interview with Meaghan Garvey

Paul Thompson POW Magazine

He Lost It at the Movies

Leo Robson The Ideas Letter

Learning to Love Growth

Addison Del Mastro The Freeman

Hollywood Invented the Girlboss

Eileen Jones Jacobin

Devils Don't Always Wear Prada

Elizabeth Grace Matthew Law & Liberty

The Best Appalachian Novels Ever Written

Charles Dodd White The Essay Desk

Don't Waste Your Crazy

Emma Newman-Holden The Republic of Letters

Puppy Love

Leighton Woodhouse RealClearInvestigations

The Battle of the Genres

Sam Kahn Castalia

What I Told Students At the College of William & Mary

Francis Fukuyama Persuasion

A Whole New World

Madeleine Adams The Baffler

Empire Still Standing

Benjamin M. Osborne Chronicles

'Widow’s Bay' Is a Menacing and Hilarious Mash-up

Phillip Maciak The New Republic

The Hottest Musician in 2026 Is Michael Jackson

Ted Gioia The Honest Broker

Left to Their Own Devices

Ian Haworth Washington Free Beacon