RealClearBooks Week of June 2, 2025 Archives

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Monday, June 2
In Praise of Jane Austen’s Least Beloved Novel
Adelle Waldman The New Yorker
Art and Life in the Criticism of Henry James
Edward Short City Journal
Our Culture’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2025
Sam Franzini Our Culture
The Retreat of the Hollywood War Movie
Paul Heron Café Américain
Great American Allusions
Vincenzo Barney The Metropolitan Review
The Straight-Male Case for ‘Sex and the City’
Will Rahn The Free Press
Our Gutenberg Moment
Emily Chamlee-Wright Persuasion
The Mortality Equation
Ross Barkan Political Currents
A Graceless Exit
Hannah Long Christianity Today
The Right Way To Read
Micah Mattix Washington Free Beacon
How Cooked Are We?
Spencer Klavan Rejoice Evermore
Everyone’s Gone to the Movies
Ross Scarano SSENSE
Tom Cruise is Looking for a Few Good Men
Jenna Stocker A Pilgrim’s Progress
The Californian Ideology in Ruins
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack
Building the Future: Fixing the Global Housing Crisis
Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox RCI
Substack Has Changed in the Last 30 Days
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
I Am Therefore I Think
Juliana Geran Pilon New English Review
I Am Writing This With a Pencil
Luke Beesley The Guardian
I Love Lucy’s Other Half
Todd S. Purdum Air Mail
In the Margins of Time: James Agee and Weldon Kees
Morten Høi Jensen Nimrod


Tuesday, June 3
A Big-League Bet on Pro Softball
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
2025 NBA Finals Primer
Michael Pina The Ringer
S. A. Cosby, the New King of Southern Noir
Cynthia R. Greenlee Garden & Gun
The Hilarious Return of the Campus Novel
Alexander Larman The Critic
Caulfield versus Copperfield
Robert Whaples Modern Age
Donald Trump, Mike Tyson, and the Fight That Defined an Era
Mark Kriegel Esquire
Andor Understands that Politics Is About Love
Hannah Long Acton Institute
Cinema's Last Great Gamble
Mo Diggs The Metropolitan Review
Can Silicon Valley Be Redeemed?
Stephen G. Adubato First Things
On Mathias Énard’s “The Deserters”
Kazuo Robinson Chicago Review of Books
Trouble & Strife
Jude Cook Literary Review
Toxic Emasculinity
Nora Kenney Washington Free Beacon
'Survivor' Turns 25
Matthew Roberson GQ
Teachers Are Not OK
Jason Koebler 404 Media
'The Phoenician Scheme' Embraces Modest Pleasures
Adam Nayman New Republic
There Is No True Third Place
Jaya Saxena Eater


Wednesday, June 4
Revenge and Redemption
Gage Klipper RealClearBooks
Can You Make a Great Shark Attack Movie in 2025?
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Last Gatekeeper
Helen Andrews Compact
Crushing Banalities
Sophie Kemp The Point
The History of the Personal Computer
Sheila Heti Cluny Journal
Seduction Is Dead, Long Live the Incel
Scott Litts First Things
Competing Moral Visions
Gaby Del Valle The Drift
Cow Tools
Grayson Scott The Baffler
Stop All the Clocks
Noah Kumin Arcade Publishing
More American Than America
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
The Writer as Chimera
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
What Was “Expat Lit”?
Oscar Dorr The Nation
Why Are Men Shaving off Their Eyelashes?
Constance Grady Vox
Unwinding the Gauguin Myth
Diane Scharper Washington Examiner
Is This “Othello” Too Shakespearean?
Tom Sarrouf Jr. Modern Age
Interview #60: Will Bardenwerper
Graig Mantle The United States of Baseball
Make American Manufacturing Great Again
Fred Bauer Commonplace
What the AI Revolution Means for Energy
Mark P. Mills   City Journal
David Horowitz, 1939–2025
Staff The New Criterion


Thursday, June 5
What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.
Cal Newport The New Yorker
So, Who’s the Best Player in Baseball?
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
The Tragedy of Elon Musk
Francis Fukuyama Persuasion
The Mass Trauma of Porn
Freya India After Babel
Will You Be a Dancing Monkey in the Age of AI?
Martin Gurri The Free Press
Alan Dershowitz Publishes His ‘Magnum Opus’
Kelly Jane Torrance New York Post
How Educators Can Defeat AI
Matthew Gasda Compact
On Britney Spears
Harmony Holiday 4Columns
What Do Americans Really Want to Read?
Tom Comitta LitHub
Athlete Lookism Theory
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
The French Exception
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert The Metropolitan Review
My Night Out With Trump’s Young Maga Crowd
Katy Balls The Times
'Friendship' Is a Cringe Comedy About Ghastly Human Need
Eileen Jones Jacobin
A New GameDay Dawns
Dennis M. Hogan The Baffler
DEI: The Democrats’ Concrete Shoes
Daniel McCarthy Chronicles
Book Review: The Affirmative Action Myth
Leslie Eastman Legal Insurrection
What’s Driving Bipartisan Cancel Culture?
Julian Adorney The Daily Economy
Novels Without Food
Michael Hofmann New York Review of Books


Friday, June 6
How the Gen Z Takeover Is Changing the NBA
Logan Murdock The Ringer
“Mountainhead” Channels the Absurdity of the Tech Bro
Kyle Chayka New Yorker
Is It Time for End-of-College ‘Board’ Exams?
Colleen Eren & Eric Torres Discourse
The Fine Art of Bad Writing
Dan Sinykin Los Angeles Review of Books
What Is Public Art For?
David Lewis Schaefer Law & Liberty
Why Woke Failed
Michael Shermer Persuasion
An Antidote to Regret
Maya Lerman Dirt
The God of Wes Anderson
Germán Saucedo First Things
Parent Power Versus Big Tech
Evie Solheim The American Conservative
What Can We Learn From TV Shows About Friendship?
Halima Jibril Dazed
The Misplaced Quest for Community
Jack Hunter Modern Age
The Best Kind of Political Art
Holly Lawford-Smith Quillette
Friends With Benefits
Paul Sperry RealClearInvestigations
On 'The Triumph of Economic Freedom'
John Tamny RCMarkets
Black Americans on the Rise Before Affirmative Action
Kelly Jane Torrance NYPost
Now It Can Be Told
William Voegeli Civitas Outlook
I Wake Up Streaming
William Boyle Southwest Review
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: A New Conservatism by Commonplace
Available this week: "The Sleepers" by Matthew Gasda
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