RealClearBooks May 20, 2026 Archives

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The Majestic Arrival of Playoff Wemby

Danny Chau The Ringer

Iceman Is Drake’s Best Album in 10 Years

Frazier Tharpe GQ

The Work of AI Winning Literary Prizes

Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work

Did AI Write This Prizewinning Story?

Novi Zhukovsky The Free Press

‘Suicidal Empathy’ Is Fake Science

Valerie Stivers UnHerd

A Brief Tribute to New Orleans Music

Nathan J. Robinson Current Affairs

Christopher Nolan’s Critical Odyssey

Dominic Green WSJ Free Expression

The Last of David Bowie

Robert Dean Lurie Modern Age

Pocket Symphonies

Sam Jennings The Hinternet

Fear and Loathing in Palo Alto

Alex Bronzini-Vender Washington Monthly

The Crimes Georges Simenon Declined to Investigate

Scott Bradfield New Republic

Michel Houellebecq and The EPR Paradox

Sam Buntz The Muted Trumpet

The Mothers Looksmaxxing Their Babies

Lily Isaacs Dispatch Media

The Way the Wind Blows

Michael Kazin The Point Magazine

Did a Nobel Laureate Misread Adam Smith?

Paul Mueller The Daily Economy

Magnetic Fields

Marko Gluhaich Kismet

About That Guardian List of 100 Best Novels

John Warner Substack

A Zone of Indistinction

Cory Oldweiler Southwest Review

Christianity and the Founders' Liberalism

Alexander William Salter Law & Liberty

On Taste, Art, AI & a Clever Viral Social Experiment

Spencer Klavan New Jerusalem

Léa Seydoux Transforms

Daniel D'Addario Variety