RealClearBooks Week of June 30, 2025 Archives

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Monday, June 30
‘F1’ Is a Movie You Have and Have Never Seen Before
Adam Nayman The Ringer
“M3GAN 2.0” Is a Victim of Inflation
Richard Brody The New Yorker
How to Write Successfully About Sex
John Julius Reel The Metropolitan Review
The Internet Comes of Age
Brad Littlejohn Commonplace
Three Visions for a New Penn Station
Catesby Leigh City Journal
We May Have Found the Swole Pill
Oliver Bateman Pirate Wires
Theory in the Air
Geoff Dyer & Leo Robson New Left Review
A Practical Fanatic
Sam Adler-Bell The Ideas Letter
What Is a Conservative Novel?
Lee Oser Acton Institute
On 'Afternoons of Solitude'
Leo Goldsmith 4Columns
Affairs of the Heart
Joanne Kaufman Air Mail
The Ballad of John and Paul
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
Prime Video’s Ballet Dramedy ‘Étoile’ Is Canceled
Evie Solheim The Federalist
Ian Leslie's "John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs"
John Tamny RealClearMarkets


Tuesday, July 1
Welcome to the Summer of Addison Rae
Sam Raus RealClearBooks
‘F1: The Movie’ Puts You in the Driver’s Seat
Jake Kring-Schreifels The Ringer
Helicopter Parenting
Nic Rowan Commonplace
20 Books Coming in July
Editors The New York Times
Not All Husbands
Elizabeth Grace Matthew The Metropolitan Review
To the Postbox
Zoe Guttenplan The Literary Review
In the 'Jaws' of Human Nature
Gordon Dakota Arnold Law & Liberty
How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Effect
Scott W. Stern New Republic
How Str8 Girls Ruined Pride
Stephen G. Adubato Cracks in Postmodernity
Celebrating Thomas Sowell
Joshua Parcha Modern Age
André Aciman’s Permanent Vacation
Crispin Long The Baffler
An Interview With Justin Smith-Ruiu
Justin Smith-Ruiu The Republic of Letters
Becoming a Close Reader
William E. Cain Slant Books
Will Platonic Guardians End Mass Incarceration?
Paul J. Larkin Civitas Institute
The Self That Never Was
Robert Saltzman The Hedgehog Review


Wednesday, July 2
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
Hua Hsu The New Yorker
Martha Stewart Has Plenty of Beef
Helena Hunt The Ringer
Reflections on the Jordan Peterson Generation
Matt Whiteley Persuasion
Treating Romance Like a Math Problem
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
You Don’t Need the Same Politics to Surf Together
David Litt The Free Press
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Part Two
Editors LitHub
On Vigdis Hjorth’s “If Only”
David Caruso Cleveland Review of Books
I Watch the Witch Burn
Reece Sisto Los Angeles Review of Books
Should We Make Classics history?
Edmund Stewart The Critic
Through the Opera Glass
Jeffrey Arlo Brown The Baffler
Time Interpolated
Hannah Weaver Public Books
The Making of Beyoncé
Megan Agnew Air Mail
Moyers in Memoriam
The Ivy Exile Substack
We Are Living Inside Science Fiction
Ewan Morrison Arcade Publishing
The Moviegoer: Realism, Femme Fatales, and Film Noir
Mark Judge Chronicles


Thursday, July 3
Lorde Strips Down to Start Over
Mitch Therieau The New Yorker
The Best Fourth of July Movies to Watch This Weekend
Jesse Hassenger GQ
Lorde’s Sadgirl Pop Sings of Gen Z Vanity
Poppy Sowerby UnHerd
Translation and Taste
Blake Smith The Hedgehog Review
Summer 2025 Book List
Stephen G. Adubato Cracks in Postmodernity
The Emoji Tongue
Keith Houston Longreads
Go Down, Dionysus
Matthew Gasda The Metropolitan Review
A Pugnacious Defense of Purple Prose
Vincenzo Barney The Republic of Letters
Substack Is Where Writers Go to Be Weird
Emma Alpern Vulture
Christopher Lasch, Plain Writing, and Democracy
Nadya Williams Providence
Restaurants, Art, and ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
Jaya Saxena Eater
Is Talc Poisoning Us?
Tim Hains RealClearPolitics
A Motor City Miracle
Aaron M. Renn Commonplace


Friday, July 4
Nightswimming
Melanie Anagnos RealClearBooks
The Sincaraz Era Is Tennis Reborn
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
A Real Live Niece of Uncle Sam
Jack Fowler National Review
Reports of Gen Z’s Lameness Are Greatly Exaggerated
Arden Yum Persuasion
ChatGPT Will See You Now
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
Worker’s Song
Franz Nicolay The Baffler
Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins
Robert Bellafiore The New Atlantis
The Best Movie Since 2000?
Andy Fowler Substack
And Now We Present… Me!
Alan Pell Crawford The American Conservative
Minimalism. It's Good.
Buku Sarkar The Republic of Letters
The Cultural Contradictions of Conservatism
Aaron M. Renn Compact
Brad Pitt Is Fooling You
Angelica Jade Bastién Vulture
Here’s What Makes ‘The Bear’ So Infuriating
Amy McCarthy Eater
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Hawks and Doves by Compact
Available this week: "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos
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