RealClearBooks Week of May 5, 2025 Archives

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Monday, May 5
Tech Founders Bet on New York
Kerry Soropoulos City Journal
Randy Travis’s Triumphant Comeback
Trudy Haywood Saunders Garden & Gun
The Jester's Power
Mary Townsend Wisdom of Crowds
The Strategic Ascent of Kai Trump
Kara Kennedy Spectator World
Julie Keeps Quiet
Morgan Leigh Davies Dirt
The Social Stock Market
Ross Barkan Political Currents
The Anti-Semites in the Conservative Manosphere
Seth Mandel Commentary
A World Beyond Words
Daniella Nichinson The Metropolitan Review
The Blogger Who Hates America
Cathy Young Persuasion
Fight for Old D.C.
Nic Rowan The American Conservative
Do We Really Need More Male Novelists?
Ella Creamer The Guardian
A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read
Larissa Phillips The Free Press
The Real School of Rock
Ezra Marcus Air Mail
The Female Gaze
Mary Harrington Substack
The Word Is Not Enough
Kristin de Montfort IM—1776
Natasha Lyonne Is More Entertaining Than Ever
Nick Schager Daily Beast
The Fiction of Shulamith Firestone
Zoe Dubno The Nation
‘American Psycho’ Still Fails to Feminize
Gage Klipper Chronicles
Appetite Studies: Self-Devourer
Graham Maassen Cleveland Review of Books
My Miserable Week in the ‘Happiest Country on Earth’
Molly Young NYTimes
Dissident Blessings in the Negative World
Brian Smith Civitas Institute


Tuesday, May 6
'The Rehearsal' Is the TV Event of the Decade
Frazier Tharpe GQ
My Brain Finally Broke
Jia Tolentino The New Yorker
On Matthew Gasda's 'Sleepers'
Jonah Howell Cracks in Postmodernity
How Do You Heal From Porn?
Madeline Fry Schultz The Dispatch
The Future of the American Novel
Ross Barkan The Metropolitan Review
Rage Against the Mom Machine
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
Enshittification
William A. Finnegan Persuasion
The Trauma Plot Has Lost Faith in Itself
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
The Teeming Earth
Bathsheba Demuth Los Angeles Review of Books
The Popular Alternative
Nicholas Russell Dirt
Rumble in Hyannis: The Kennedy Feud Gets Serious
William Cohan Town & Country
Ireland’s Literary Femme Fatale
Barbara Broccoli Air Mail
Review: “The Sleepers” by Matthew Gasda
Aaron Lake Smith Empty Railroad Gulch
Methodical Banality
Hannah Katznelson Aeon
Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later
Kazuo Ishiguro LitHub
Close Reading Shakespeare: Othello Speaks
William E. Cain Slant Books
The Age of American Nihilism
Thane Rosenbaum Jewish Journal
The South's Public-Education Revival
Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations


Wednesday, May 7
The Profanity Trend Is Tired and Played Out
Adam Ellwanger RealClearBooks
Why I Broke Up with New York
Lena Dunham The New Yorker
Red Pill, Blue Pill
Joshua Mitchell Cluny Journal
What if AI Just Makes Everyone Really Boring?
Teddy Brown Substack
Can Spotify Be Stopped?
Mitch Therieau The Nation
The Pedagogic Life
Dan Walden The Point
A New York Epic for our Time
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
On Ross Barkan's 'Glass Century'
ARX-Han Decentralized Fiction
Quarantine the Past
John Semley The Baffler
Why Do Collaborators Do It?
Gal Beckerman The Atlantic
She Called a Kid the N-Word. The Far-Right Is Making Her Rich.
River Page TheFP
Trapped in an Age of Reflection
Sam Buntz The Muted Trumpet
Trying to Find Small Press Books
Melanie Jennings & Elizabeth Kaye Cook Persuasion
The Push Pin Attitude
Ash Carter Substack
How Major League Baseball Lost Its Soul
Bill Kauffman Spectator World
Models, Reality TV, and Stick-Shift Surprises
Mark Judge Chronicles
Not By Tariff Alone
Chris Griswold Commonplace
Sorry, Wrong Numbers
Christopher J. Ferguson RealClearInvestigations
The Mommy Wars Are Bad, Actually
Kara Kennedy Mom Wars
The Technological Republic
Caleb Slayton Providence


Thursday, May 8
The Sleepers
Matthew Gasda RealClearBooks
For Some Coaches, the NBA Isn’t a Passion—It’s an Addiction
Howard Beck Ringer
How Society Got a Sex Change
Ashley Frawley Compact
Show Biz Kids
Henry Begler A Good Hard Stare
Can Criticism Survive Inside the University?
Multiple authors The Point’s Substack
I Don’t Need Ozempic. But I Want It.
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Am I Too Online?
Bridget Phetasy Spectator World
The Perks of Being a University Dropout
Ella Fox-Martens Substack
Prehistory’s Original Sin
Connor Grubaugh Hedgehog Review
Author Spotlight: Matthew Gasda, ‘The Sleepers’
Sam Franzini Our Culture
The Spectacle of a Boxing Match in Times Square
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
Ivy League Miseducation
Adam Kissel Encounter Books
Alex Karp’s Technopolitik
Robert Bellafiore Commonplace
Graydon Carter's 'When the Going Was Good'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Books of the Month
Staff Vol. 1 Brooklyn
The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex
Benjamin Davis LitHub
Lewis Pullman Steps Out of the Shadows
Eric Ducker GQ
Are We Living in a Time of Cultural Collapse?
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
We, Robots
Kate Epstein Persuasion
What If Gen Xers Are Actually the Cool Ones?
Daisy Jones Vogue


Friday, May 9
The Battling Memoirs of The New Yorker
Anthony Lane The New Yorker
The American Pope
Matthew Walther The Free Press
Edward St Aubyn’s Comedy of Horrors
Nicholas Harris The New Statesman
Longing for Something Sacred
Stephen G. Adubato The Metropolitan Review
The Millennial Darkness of Matthew Gasda
GD Dess Compact
Diversity Is Good, Actually
Angel Eduardo The Dispatch
My Walt Whitman
Federico Perelmuter Southwest Review
Michael Jordan, Yes; Winston Churchill, No?
David Polansky Wisdom of Crowds
The Fight for the Soul of Video Games
Lewis Gordon The Nation
An Interview With Ross Barkan
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
The Roots of ‘Andor’ Lore Run Deep
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
Why Conclave Still Enchants Us
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
A Mobster’s Mensch
Bruce Handy Air Mail
In Austin, a Double Shot of Academic Counter-Revolution
John Murawski RCI
High-Stakes Gamble: Is College Still Worth It?
Walter Donway The Daily Economy
To Lie or Not to Lie
Juliana Geran Pilon Fusion
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Trump's First 100 Days by Commonplace
Available this week: "Glass Century" by Ross Barkan
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