RealClearBooks Week of August 25, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 25
I Hated Novak Djokovic. Now I’m Rooting for Him.
Uri Berliner The Free Press
The Trouble With Trigger Warnings
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
What We Can Learn from Woke Chaos
Oliver Traldi National Review
Mano a Mano
Gordon Marino The Point Magazine
Attention is All We Need
Derek Neal 3 Quarks Daily
"Weapons" and the Long Tail of Covid
Ross Barkan Political Currents
The Mighty Kubrick
Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review
‘Americana’ Review
Sonny Bunch The Bulwark
On Smoking, and Other Human Vices
Ani Chkhikvadze The Dispatch
Law and Order
Leo Robson New Left Review
All These Moments Lost in Time
David Polansky Strange Frequencies
It’s Detective Work
Kate Dwyer McNally Editions
A Culture of Conversation
Wilfred M. McClay Law & Liberty
Where is Wallace Stevens?
William Cain Close Reading
The Normal Life of Earl Sweatshirt
Ross Scarano SSENSE
Let’s Press Pause on AI Chatbots for Kids
Gaia Bernstein After Babel
Inspired by a Double Bagel
Mark Hodgkinson Air Mail
Autofiction Ruined My Life
Samara Seibold The Republic of Letters
Sam Altman Has Some Unfinished Business
Ian Haworth Washington Free Beacon
Inside the Furry War Playing Out on Bluesky
Riley Nork Pirate Wires
3, 2, 1: How We Were Drawn Into the Photo Booth
Rosalind Jana ArtReview


Tuesday, August 26
A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch The New Yorker
The 101 Best Movie Performances of the 21st Century
Staff The Ringer
What We Learned From Netflix’s Cowboys Docuseries
Dan Solomon Texas Monthly
James Baldwin’s Life and Loves in France
Kaitlyn Greenidge Harper's Bazaar
David Foster Wallace: Prophet of American Loneliness
David Masciotra UnHerd
The Tragedy Of “Stomp Clap Hey”
Mitch Therieau Defector
Against Angst
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative
The Mediocrity of Curtis Yarvin
John Horvat II Law & Liberty
Legacy Over Clout: Spike Lee’s Kurosawa Remix
Giancarlo Sopo National Review
Moodboard Maoism
Ellena Basada Review 31
Why It’s So Hard to Make School Lunches Healthier
Alana Semuels Time
A Cat Chasing a Laser Beam
Ena Alvarado The Metropolitan Review
The Never Ending Conversation
Daniel J. Flynn Encounter Books
When Mealtime Was Epic
Jaya Saxena Eater
The Rot Inside Legacy Media Is the Rot Inside Us All
Blake Dodge Pirate Wires
A Libertarian Pronatalism
Rachel Lu The Freeman
Cracker Barrel Didn't 'Go Woke.' It Just Went Broke.
Billy Binion Reason
CrossFit Reminds Us Who’s Running Your Life
Jon Miltimore The Daily Economy


Wednesday, August 27
The Enduring Legend of Philip Seymour Hoffman
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Dog Days of New York Baseball
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
RF Kuang’s Descent Into the Abyss
George Monaghan The New Statesman
The Viral Pope
Tara Isabella Burton Cracks in Postmodernity
Noah Kumin Interviewed
Matthew Binder XRAY Literary Magazine
Lana Del Rey Talks New Album and Finding Love
Lynn Hirschberg W Magazine
Why Author R.F. Kuang Runs in Silence Every Morning
Adrienne Westenfeld Outside
An Interview with Stephanie Yue Duhem
Paul Franz Cleveland Review of Books
The Glorious Future of the Book
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Taylor and Travis Save America
Luke Lyman Spectator World
Are Men Reading Books for Attention?
Lydia Spencer-Elliott The Independent
There Will Be No Taylor-Travis Marriage Boom
Patrick Brown Compact
How the VHS Tape Helped Topple Communism
Mark Judge Hot Air
The Ice Cream Truck’s Surprising History
Olivia Potts Longreads
On Literary Depictions of Reality TV
Hannah Berman Lit Hub


Thursday, August 28
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Sloane Crosley The New Yorker
The Michael Penix Jr. Era Has Arrived in Atlanta
Diante Lee The Ringer
The Sports Gambling Backlash Is Here
Charles Fain Lehman The Dispatch
Agnes Callard’s Insistent Answers to Life’s Questions
Mary Townsend The Bulwark
Lionel Trilling’s Literary Moralism
M.D. Aeschliman Modern Age
The Heterofatalism Trap
Daniel Lehewych Quillette
There’s One Born Every Minute
Richard Z. Santos Slate
When Steven Spielberg Met John Williams
Tim Greiving Vanity Fair
Another Cruise
Caleb Crain Substack
Buc-ee's and The Infinite American Spirit
G.B. Rango Pirate Wires
Coming and Age
David Polonoff Metropolitan Review
The Moral Panic In Your Hands
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
Ed Zwick's "Hits, Flops and Other Illusions"
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
I’m Not Answering That Question
Zak Cheney-Rice Vulture


Friday, August 29
A.I. Is Coming for Culture
Joshua Rothman The New Yorker
The SEC’s Era of Invincibility Is Over
Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer
Patricia Lockwood’s Completely Singular Covid Novel
Grace Byron New Republic
Lord Byron’s Sex education
Maria Albano The New Statesman
Worse Than Woke, Smithsonian Art Is Bad
Gage Klipper Spectator World
Red Meat and Rage Calories
Nancy Rommelmann Substack
Universities Need More Reason—Less "Expression"
John O. McGinnis Law & Liberty
A Katrina Odyssey
James Varney RealClearInvestigations
Creating Affordable Housing
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde Civitas Outlook
‘Bugonia’ Review
Owen Gleiberman Variety
Shelf Life: R. F. Kuang
Riza Cruz Elle Magazine
What Books Shaped You in High School?
Staff NPR
Digital Hive Mind, Groupthink &the Cost of Conformity
Nicole James The Freeman
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Peace TikTalks by Compact
Available this week: "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos
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