RealClearBooks Week of April 21, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 21
'Sinners' Is a Fusion of Historical Realism & Horror
Richard Brody New Yorker
The Pistons Went from a Nightmare Season to the Playoffs
Matthew Roberson GQ
David Cronenberg Confronts the Horror of His Own Grief
Phoebe Chen W Magazine
Play It Again, Spotify
Kara Kennedy Washington Free Beacon
Peter Wolf and the Lost Art of Chance Encounters
Charles F. McElwee City Journal
No Honor Among Mutuals
Mark Granza IM—1776
American Faust
Brian Pascus The Metropolitan Review
Laura Loomer Is Degrading Politics
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The Miami Vice Sequel That Never Was
David Rolland Islandia
‘Sinners’ Is More Than Enough to Chew On
Adam Nayman The Ringer
How Anti-Woke Went Intellectually Bankrupt
Ross Barkan New York Magazine
Sawn-Off Bareness
Peter Hitchens The Lamp
Hee-Haw, Taylor Swift!
Kevin Evers Air Mail
Wealth Is Wasted on Melinda Gates
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
How I Learned About Great Literature from Comic Books
Ted Gioia Honest Broker
Why America Builds Monuments
Sabin Howard Modern Age
What ‘White Lotus’ Got Right
Maggie Phillips Tablet


Tuesday, April 22
The American Mind, Opened
Mike Sabo RealClearBooks
These New York Knicks Are Different
Howard Beck The Ringer
The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar
Hannah Goldfield The New Yorker
Tarot, Superheroes, Great American Novel
Denise S. Robbins Chicago Review of Books
What Working-Class Voters Really Want
Ruy Teixeira Commonplace
The Tech World’s Oppenheimer
Stephen Witt Air Mail
Lighten Up, You Sad Broken Men!
Aled Maclean-Jones The Republic of Letters
How Trump Can Make Baseball Great Again
Harry Stein City Journal
Henry James Was Not at Home in America
Scott Bradfield New Republic
The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Nation
Director Ryan Coogler on 'Sinners'
Frazier Tharpe GQ
The Pain of Passing
Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed The Metropolitan Review
Pierre Manent’s Fruitful “Triangle”
Daniel J. Mahoney Law & Liberty
Woke Despotism Meets the Counterrevolution
Richard M. Reinsch II Civitas Institute
We All Inhabit This Small Planet
Heather Cass White Los Angeles Review of Books
Casting Off the Oppression of the Race Hustle
Mark Judge Chronicles


Wednesday, April 23
Plathanasius of Massachusetts
Kazuo Robinson RealClearBooks
The Faustian Bargain of the “Sacramento” Athletics
Dan Moore The Ringer
The Wildest Fashion Show in Sports Is…Little League?
Jason Gay WSJ
The Last of the Boom
Santiago Ramos Commonweal
Can Democrats Pivot to the Center?
Park MacDougald City Journal
The Decline of Outside Magazine & the End of the West
Rachel Monroe New Yorker
The New Soros
Simon van Zuylen-Wood New York Magazine
Defusing Academic Freedom
Oliver Traldi Fusion
'Andor' Is the Best Star Wars You Will Ever See
David Klion New Republic
A TikTok Stepford Wives for the Pornhub Era
Anthony Cummins The Guardian
Rooted in Place
Seth Kaplan Commonplace
Parents, Put Down the Phones
Clare Morell The Dispatch
Genius Isn't Rare
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
Joan Didion’s ‘Notes to John’ May Be a Gift
Leigh Haber LA Times
The Passion of Pope Francis
Francis X. Rocca The Free Press
Adam DeVine Found Catharsis in 'The Righteous Gemstones'
Sirena He Esquire
Diane Coyle's 'The Measure of Progress'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Hands Off the University, Indeed
Paul Mueller The Daily Economy
Some Thoughts On The New Romantic Movement
Adam Pearson Substack
Former Biden Whistleblowers Return to Advise Trump’s IRS
Maggie Miller RCI
Givers, Doers, & Thinkers Webinar: America 250
Staff Center for Civil Society


Thursday, April 24
Lady Gaga’s 'Mayhem' and the Art of Pop Nonconformity
Sam Raus RealClearBooks
Bradley Cooper Makes an Awfully Good Cheesesteak
Helen Rosner The New Yorker
How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation
Catherine Kim Politico
On Terry Allen and the Art of Biography
Harris Wheless Cleveland Review of Books
The Literary Ruins of #MeToo
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
Substack and the American Novel
Matthew Specktor The Metropolitan Review
Real Men
Martin Dolan The Point
Condition of America
Nick Burns New Left Review
Expatriate Games
Celeste Marcus Bookforum
Joan Didion Without Her Style
Lola Seaton The New Statesman
Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver
Julien C. Levy LitHub
Into the Wild
Robert Rubsam Commonweal
Addison Rae Knows You Can’t Stop Watching Her
Suzy Exposito Elle
Gulf of América
Esther Allen Los Angeles Review of Books
The Truth About Love
Armand D'Angour Aeon
Revolt of the Dandies
Joe Amato IM—1776
George Orwell Knew What Made Shakespeare Great
Michael Lucchese Providence
The Houston Rockets Aren’t Afraid of the Moment
Logan Murdock The Ringer
The Devil in the Murderous Details
Emina Melonic Chronicles


Friday, April 25
The Genius of Jokic
Michael Pina The Ringer
Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Discourse on Race Has a Conformity Problem
John McWhorter Persuasion
Shrink Rap
James Wolcott Air Mail
Where Does Trauma Live?
Jamie Hood & Lidia Yuknavitch Dirt
You Are Not an Ape-Brained Meat Sack
Spencer A. Klavan The New Atlantis
Trump Speaks Truth to Power
Ellwanger and Waters RealClearDefense
Enter Stage Right
Alexander Larman The Critic
“Poetry City”: Iowa City, Iowa
Harry Stecopoulos Public Books
Another Thing Folks Like About the South: Education's Revival
Vince Bielski RCI
The C.U.P. Runneth Over
Dave Infante The Baffler
Thomas Bernhard's Women
Nate West Substack
Is the Democratic Party Violating Civil-Rights Law?
James Piereson New Criterion
The Black Circle
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
Are You More Human Than a Chatbot?
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles
Europe Really Is Jailing People for Online Speech
Yascha Mounk Substack
Texas Joins the School Choice Revolution
Corey A. DeAngelis The Daily Economy
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: New York's Composting Delusion by City Journal
Available this week: "The Persistence of the Ideological Lie" Daniel J. Mahoney
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