RealClearBooks Week of May 12, 2025 Archives

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Monday, May 12

Is the Great American Novel On Substack?

Peter C. Baker The New Yorker

Creators Are Building Their Own Studio System

Alex Weprin The Hollywood Reporter

The Decline of the Great Literary Name

Jacob Phillips The Critic

Woke Universities Could Lose Talent to Red States

Neeraja Deshpande City Journal

Criticism and Free Expression in the University

Multiple authors The Point’s Substack

Say No to the Grind

Alessandra Bocchi Alata Magazine

I Found Freedom in Bland

Keturah Hickman The Free Press

Pope Leo’s Challenge

Dan Hitchens Compact

Women's Fiction Still Gets Ignored

Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters

On 'The Harmattan Winds'

Gideon Leek Harvard Review

What to Do About the Decline of the Humanities

Henry Oliver The Common Reader

Read Maxim Gorky

Aaron Lake Smith The Republic of Letters

A Book Catholic Evangelizers Need to Read

Stephen G. Adubato America Magazine

The Age When Nothing Fits

Jarrod Sturnieks Quillette

Andy Puzder's 'A Tyranny for the Good of Its Victims'

Mike Edleson RealClearMarkets

Florence Pugh’s Thunderbolts* Shocks Marvel Back to Life

Eileen Jones Jacobin

The Pulitzer Prizes Are An Embarrassment

Sam Kahn Castalia

If You Write For Real, Chat GPT Cannot Replace You

Ethan Strauss House of Strauss

Ross Douthat and the New Theism

Mary Eberstadt Washington Free Beacon

Cicero's Law

Graham McAleer Civitas Institute

Tuesday, May 13

Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?

Clare Malone The New Yorker

Where Four Loko Art Thou?

Claire McNear The Ringer

The Two Cultures

Ross Barkan Political Currents

The Horror of Unlimited Freedom

John Byron Kuhner Compact

Kill the Editor

Caleb Caudell The Metropolitan Review

Rising from Her Verses

Sophia Stewart Los Angeles Review of Books

The Invention of Close Reading

Dan Sinykin The Nation

A Matter of Words

Megan Fritts The Point

Sleeping Through Life

Trevor Cribben Merrill First Things

When Did Meat Become Right-Wing?

Poppy Sowerby UnHerd

The Hobo Handbook

Jeremiah David The Paris Review

Trap

Brian Allen Carr Zona Motel

A Cultural Vision for Conservatism

Dana Gioia & Daniel McCarthy Modern Age

On 'American Thighs'

Mary Buchanan Sellers 3:AM Magazine

Carlos Santana, at 39, Remains Revered Teammate

Gabe Lacques USA Today

We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel

Amy Weiss-Meyer The Atlantic

Wednesday, May 14

Richard Kind Is the Perfect Second Banana

Michael Schulman The New Yorker

Our First American Pope

Brian Phillips The Ringer

On Julia Kornberg’s “Berlin Atomized”

Greta Rainbow Cleveland Review of Books

Pronatalism's Brave New World

Rachel Lu Law & Liberty

Portals and Possibilities

Ruth Joffre Los Angeles Review of Books

Inside the Making of Mission: Impossible

Zach Baron GQ

The Decline of Ye West

Mary Harrington UnHerd

Can These Catholics Save the Art World?

Valerie Pavilonis The Dispatch

Small Fry

Walker Rutter-Bowman The Baffler

On Rudyard Kipling

Sam Buntz The Muted Trumpet

To Rhyme Is Human

James Matthew Wilson Plough

Journalism Needs Norman Mailer Types

Mark Judge Splice Today

5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Teddy Wayne LitHub

‘Zbig’ Review: Kissinger’s Chief Rival

Tevi Troy Wall Street Journal

Extraterrestrial Tongues

Nikhil Mahant Aeon

Thursday, May 15

The Paradoxes of Feminine Muscle

Lauren Michele Jackson The New Yorker

Mission Impossible: Tom Cruise Delivers

David Rooney Hollywood Reporter

Gateway Books

Timothy Aubry The Point

Searching For Michael Jordan in Wilmington

Thomas Beller The Assembly

America’s Puritans Are Back

Adrian Nathan West UnHerd

The Work of Saving Higher Education

Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work

The Man Without Illusions

Dan Hitchens Compact

Why Twain Endures

Mark Bauerlein First Things

Judgement Day

Kevin Lozano The Nation

The Rooms of Fiction

Dustin Illingworth Obstructive Fictions

A Guide to the Biography of William F. Buckley Jr.

Neal B. Freeman National Review

What Scarlett Johansson Wants

David Canfield Vanity Fair

Don’t Doomscroll. Garden

Talia Barnes Persuasion

The Anatomy of a Secret

Valen Lambert Girl Howdy

Should Warhol Be Canned?

Richard Lacayo Air Mail

The 21 Best Books of 2025 (So Far)

Adam Morgan Esquire

Trump’s Tariffs Offer Hope to Hollywood

Gage Klipper Chronicles

Is Mubi Really Worth $1 Billion?

Elsa Keslassy Variety

A Revival of Classical Education is Underway

Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations

Does Music Still Exist?

Sam Jennings The Republic of Letters

On Mark Twain, a Biography

Hamilton Cain On The Seawall

Friday, May 16

Is Ocean Vuong America's Last Celebrity Author?

Raymond Ang GQ

The NFL Wants You to Watch the Kansas City Chiefs

Diante Lee The Ringer

Male Authors Don’t Need Your Pity

John Maier UnHerd

The Age of Self

Jordan Castro Soft Union

The Lisbon illusion

Marco Roth Dispatch

The Terror of Mediocrity

Blake Smith The Metropolitan Review

We Are Our Attention

Nadia Asparouhova Cluny Journal

W.A.S.T.E. Not

Madeleine Adams The Baffler

When Did Wellness Become a Status Symbol?

Ariana Marsh Harper's Bazaar

Focus on the Families

Patrick T. Brown Commonplace

Will AI Be Alive?

Brian J. A. Boyd The New Atlantis

Goliath vs. Goliath

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

The Man Behind the Mustache

Jim Kelly Air Mail

Butch Meily's "From Manilla to Wall Street"

John Tamny RealClearMarkets

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: The Persistence of Ideology by First Things

Available this week: "The Sleepers" by Matthew Gasda

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