RealClearBooks July 22, 2026 Archives

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How to Die and Be Reborn in Colson Whitehead’s New York

Lex Pryor The Ringer

The Oldest Tradition in Art

Claire Lehmann Quillette

How We All Became Bernhard Bros

Jon Baskin The Point’s Substack

Love Her or Hate Her, Sophie Cunningham Won’t Be Ignored

Hallie Grossman ESPN

Deep America

Emma Collins A New Heaven

Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’: Epic for Our Times or Epic Failure?

Liel Leibovitz Tablet

Don’t Kill Dionysus

Savannah Huitema The Metropolitan Review

Will the Court Legalize Home Distilling?

Andrew M. Grossman & Robert Alt RCPolicy

Waiting for Randy Johnson

Seth Freedland In The Margins

Christopher Nolan vs. the Chuds

Matt McManus Jacobin

Getting Off With the Luddites

Sarah Thankam Mathews n+1

Prisoners of Our Own Devices

Matthew Gasda First Things

In Defense of Jonathan Franzen

Michael X. Heiligenstein Magazine Non Grata

My Obsession with Camille Bordas

Catherine Lacey Untitled Thought Project

Colson Whitehead’s Last Heist

Ron Charles Substack

The Last Great Season of America's Pastime

Troy M. Olson The Frank Forum

On 'The Baffler'

Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters

Dry Dwellers of Eternity

Sam Jennings Substack

Moving to New York

Blake Nelson The Republic of Letters

Writing a Love Letter to the Mojave Desert

Jane Ciabattari LitHub