RealClearBooks August 18, 2026 Archives

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Can HBO’s Grounded Green Lantern Take Flight?

Daniel Chin The Ringer

The Longevity of 'It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia'

Paula Mejia The New Yorker

The Four Agreements

Daniel Saldaña París Kismet

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books

Emanuel Maiberg 404 Media

Modernity’s Patching Up

Kit Wilson Portico

Mario Vargas Llosa’s Soap-Opera Life

Nick Burns UnHerd

Robert Frost’s Tribulation

Jonathan Leaf Modern Age

Is the City Finished?

Sam Kahn Castalia

What We Did to Jason Arday

Sam Kriss Numb at the Lodge

Wilde at Heart

Annie Berke Dirt

Angry Outsider Losers

Aaron Lake Smith Empty Railroad Gulch

Reaching Toward the Memory of Past Stories

Sergio Muro The Rumpus

The End of the Luigi Cult

Alex Bronzini-Vender The Spectator

I Quit One of Literature’s Greatest Novels

Joel J. Miller Miller’s Book Review

Calvin Coolidge: Christian Roots of American Liberty

Daniel McCarthy Daily Signal

French Radicals of the 60s Infiltrated American Politics

Daniel J. Mahoney NYPost

Why 'Barcelona' Is my Feelgood Movie

Ryan Chapman The Guardian

Portrait of Childhood Shame

Robert Rubsam Alta Online

The Birth of the Author

Laura Cecile Moore Liberties

Medieval Times? You’re Living in Them

T.M. Brown CNN

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Odds & Odysseys by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

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