RealClearBooks August 12, 2026 Archives

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Perez Hilton and Our Live-Streaming Nightmare

Brady Brickner-Wood The New Yorker

A Visit to MAHA Land With Mets Icon Noah Syndergaard

Leo Sepkowitz GQ

The Unrelenting Hoofbeats of the New Literature

Ross Barkan Metropolitan Review

Are Men to Blame for the Birth-Rate Collapse?

Marc Novicoff The Atlantic

Bourdain’s World Was Not Enough

Germán S. Díaz del Castillo First Things

Burning the Past to Build the Future

Pedro Gonzalez Washington Monthly

Bourdain Wasn’t a Good Writer—Then Came the Kitchen

Gideon Leek Playboy

The Last Cool Chef In America

Denzel Rust MAMA

Juggling Jack Kerouac

Paul J. Pastor Dappled Things

Jenna Ortega Won’t Stop Taking Risks

Anthony Breznican Esquire

The Gospel of French Theory

Audrey Clare Farley Cracks in Postmodernity

Every Novel Is Boring—Until It Isn’t

Emma Adler Public Books

'The Odyssey' as AI Allegory

Yanis Varoufakis UnHerd

Pastime, Present Time

Ryan Ruby Southwest Review

Plato’s Warning Has Been Vindicated

Michael Marinaccio The Hedgehog Review

A Review of 'From the Kentucky Hills in a Time of War'

Brad Skow New Verse Review

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Odds & Odysseys by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

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