RealClearBooks Week of June 23, 2025 Archives

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Monday, June 23
Jaws Is Still (And Will Always Be) My Favorite Movie
Chris Nashawaty Esquire
‘28 Years Later’ Is Infectious
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Harry Crews’s Counterlives
Charlie Lee Harper's
Hidden Fears and Secret Dreams
B.D. McClay The Point
Going Beyond Language
Derek Neal Substack
Book Nook
Scott McClanahan Zona Motel
A Hail Mary for Humanism?
David Polansky Strange Frequencies
On the Worst Movie of the Year
Ella Fox-Martens Substack
The Novel as Revolutionary Instrument
Holiday Dmitri Los Angeles Review of Books
Forgetting Atticus Finch
Michael Goodwin Hilton The Metropolitan Review
A Brief Tale of Chatbot-Enabled Interior Design
Kat Rosenfield Substack
On 'Ultramarine'
Jon Repetti Full Stop
Slacking Toward Bethlehem
Sammy Loren The Baffler
Millennial Insincerity and Cutting the Crap
L.W. Blakely The Wayfarer
Does the Pulitzer Prize Hate Substack?
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Gonzo Bros
Frank Celia Quillette
In Defense of Sabrina Carpenter’s Nonsense
LuElla D’Amico The Dispatch
Educated Bet
Vince Bielski RealClearInvestigations
Painting the Town Red
Katy Balls Air Mail
The Genius & the Impresario
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
Wall Text
Kazuo Robinson Substack
An Interview With Martin Gurri
Martin Gurri The Republic of Letters
Mark Leyner Gets the Reader Treatment
Kevin Sampsell Southwest Review


Tuesday, June 24
Feast of Reason and Flow of Soul
John J. Waters RealClearBooks
How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.
Jay Caspian Kang New Yorker
Kevin Durant and the Diminishing Value of Older Athletes
Will Leitch NYMag
Catherine Lacey’s Disappointing Fusion
Lily Meyer The New Republic
This Isn’t the Thunder’s Moment—It’s Their Era
Howard Beck The Ringer
Innovation and Repetition
René Girard Cluny Journal
Alternative Entertainment
Michael Warren Washington Free Beacon
Against Optimization
John Warner Substack
Annie Ernaux Fixed My Disintegrating Attention Span
Celine Nguyen Personal Canon
The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction
Owen Yingling Substack
Blasphemy Laws by a Different Name
Max Klinger Persuasion
Where American Literature Went Vuong
The Literarian Gazette Substack
Sex & the City Exemplifies Late 20th-Century Feminist Despair
Alice Bolin LitHub
Engaging With Culture Is the Future of Conservative Media
Mark Judge Chronicles
What Can Right-Wing Authors Do?
Emily Schroeder The Critic
Alison Bechdel’s Next Step
Jillian Steinhauer The Nation


Wednesday, June 25
“F1” is a Well-Tooled Engine of Entertainment
Justin Chang The New Yorker
The WNBA Is a Perfectly Choreographed TV Drama
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
The Art of Letting Go
Peter James The Metropolitan Review
The Second Coming of America’s Funniest Writer
Itxu Diaz Law & Liberty
Not Reading or Writing Would Be Unthinkable
James Marriott The Times
Can Literacy Be Saved?
M.D. Aeschliman Modern Age
A Portrait of the Scholar
Michael O'Donnell The American Scholar
The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction
Jeremy Gordon The Atlantic
Ranking Spielberg Movies
Josh Rosenberg & Eric Francisco & Brady Langmann Esquire
Alison Bechdel’s Non-Memoir, Memoir
David Plotz Slate
Exams Are Good for Children
Lola Salem The Critic
Is the NBA Draft Rigged?
B. Duncan Moench UnHerd
What You Need to Know Before Watching ‘Ironheart’
Daniel Chin The Ringer
During Pride Libraries Become Centers for Queer Resistance
John Murawski RCI
Is Ownership Over?
G.B. Rango Pirate Wires


Thursday, June 26
“The Gilded Age” Is a Poor Man’s Period Drama
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
The Maine, the Myth, and the Legend of Cooper Flagg
Kirk Goldsberry The Ringer
Content Moderation Is Not Censorship
Renée DiResta Law & Liberty
The Radicality of Marriage
John Milbank Cracks in Postmodernity
The Rise of Pro Wrestling in the American Psyche
Marc Raimondi LitHub
Inside a Biohacking Conference Emboldened by MAHA
Will Bahr Wired
Trump’s Return to Shakespearean Politics
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age
Michael Koresky Air Mail
A Second Sexual Revolution?
Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason
NFL Player Turned to Psychedelics to Help With His OCD
Ben Morse CNN
Rehearsing for the Apocalypse
Anna Marie Cain Los Angeles Review of Books
Model Collapse
Katya Grishakova The Metropolitan Review
The Man Crisis and ‘Iron John’ at 35
Mark Judge Chronicles
Forget Therapy. Do Men Need Book Clubs?
Joseph Bernstein The New York Times
Seth Rogen’s Toothless Hollywood Satire
Vikram Murthi The Nation


Friday, June 27
Another Side of Bruce Springsteen
Steven Hyden The Ringer
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
The Promise of Modern Architecture
Tyler Syck Law & Liberty
On Poets Writing Novels
Tanner Stening Fence Digital
Conservatives Must Resist AI Accelerationism
Owen Yingling Compact
I’m an Artist, and I’m Not Threatened by AI
Angel Eduardo Persuasion
The Best Home Run Hitter Is a Guy Named Big Dumper
Matthew Roberson GQ
WEEKEND INTERVIEW: George Tidmarsh
Federal Newswire The Federal Newswire
The Blockbuster That Captured a Growing American Rift
Tyler Austin Harper Atlantic
Nobody Has A Personality Anymore
Freya India GIRLS
Why Free Speech Matters
Kite & Key Media RealClearPolitics
On Anna Seghers’s “Transit”
Eric Betts Cleveland Review of Books
F1 Is Forgettable, but a Lot of Fun
Alexander Larman Spectator World
Dorothy Allison & a New Kind of Queer Lit
Emma Copley Eisenberg Harper's Bazaar
Period Drama
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Hawks and Doves by Compact
Available this week: "Stop All the Clocks" by Noah Kumin
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