RealClearBooks August 10, 2026 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up

Paige Williams The New Yorker

Before He Was Bourdain

Danny Chau The Ringer

Scott McClanahan: The Interview

Bart Schaneman The Republic of Letters

The State of the Tennis Sneaker

Lee Glandorf Dirt

Why MFA Programs Matter

Nadya Williams The Dispatch

The Air-Conditioning Debate

Aaron Lake Smith Empty Railroad Gulch

‘Tony’ Makes Bourdain Unlikeable, and That’s Why It Works

Bettina Makalintal Eater

A World Without People

Maria Viola Albano The Metropolitan Review

What is the Name of Our Desire?

Ian Marcus Corbin Romanticon

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?

Aaron Horwath Noema

'Ted Lasso' Just Can’t Help Itself

Eric Francisco Esquire

Sophie Cunningham Became The WNBA’s Biggest Target

Lauren Bair Daily Wire

Cunningham Has Quite A Journey To Get Back To Basketball

Samer Kalaf Defector

Repairing Your Education

Cooper Moore The Federalist

Bolaño’s Mexico City 50 Years Later

Aaron Shulman Substack

Don’t Forget About 'Troy'

Frazier Tharpe GQ

Christopher Nolan’s Endless Odyssey

Jake Adkins Front Porch Republic

Auden After Dark

Christopher Caldwell Washington Free Beacon

Jane Schoenbrun’s Love Letter to Teen Horror

Adam Nayman The New Republic

Gen Z Can’t Go On. It Must Go On.

David Moscrop Jacobin

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Odds & Odysseys by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

Sign up for the RealClearBooks e-mail newsletter and never miss an update!

Follow RealClearBooks on Twitter