RealClearBooks May 21, 2026 Archives

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Drake Would Like to Settle the Score

Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker

What Has Happened to Taste?

Tiffany Ng Esquire

The Battle of the Baked Goods

Suzy Weiss The Free Press

Straight Man

Adam Fleming Petty The Metropolitan Review

The Erotic Life of a True-Crime Junkie

Ron Charles Substack

How I Learned to Read Again

Sam Kahn Magazine Non Grata

Invasion of the Literary Bots

Vincenzo Barney UnHerd

Book Review: Ashton Politanoff, ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’

Sam Franzini Our Culture

We Make a Mean Team

Paul Thompson POW Magazine

NYC Is a Deeply Religious City

Stephen G. Adubato Cracks in Postmodernity

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Defends Beauty

Nora Kenney Mittiga Word on Fire

Adaptations: The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Chris Marino Romanticon

On Not 'Fighting Gravity'

Andrew Boryga Dwell

The Untold Story of Larry Bird

Mark Judge Chronicles

15 Books Our Critics Can’t Wait for This Summer

Meghan Collins Sullivan NPR

The Way That Abides Forever

Nadya Williams Providence

Big Money

Katrina Gulliver The Freeman

Leaving the Women’s Movement

Kara Jesella Tablet

Reenactor of the Present

Evan McHenry Cleveland Review of Books

A Stylish All-Women Wrestling League?

Maxwell Rabb Harper's Bazaar

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Bagel Bans by Compact

Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan

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