RealClearBooks Week of September 29, 2025 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

Monday, September 29
Putting ChatGPT on the Couch
Gary Greenberg The New Yorker
One Battle (for IMAX Tickets) After Another
Chris Stanton The Ringer
Bruce Springsteen’s Long Journey Home
Eric Cortellessa Time
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem
Tajja Isen The Walrus
The Gods That Failed
Michael Lange The Metropolitan Review
The Life and Death of American Malls
Harris Sockel Pirate Wires
Lifting Weights
Brad Strotten Quillette
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Wild American Epic
John Semley The Nation
The Manosphere’s Literary Muscle Men
Derek Neal The New Statesman
Every Angel is Terrifying
Tara Isabella Burton Romanticon
Post-Mass Culture
Dylan Riley New Left Review
Cormac McCarthy's Western Canon
Casey Spinks Civitas Outlook
MAGA Is Coming for the WNBA
Alex Keeney Politico
An Interview With Henry Oliver
Henry Oliver The Republic of Letters
Why Is Apple Hosting an Assassin’s App?
Gage Klipper Spectator World
Wired In
Matthew Phillips Washington Free Beacon
On Muscle Man
Leo Lasdun Soft Union
The Revived Naked Gun Shoots and Scores
Paul de Quenoy Chronicles


Tuesday, September 30
Carol Burnett Plays On
Rachel Syme The New Yorker
What ‘One Battle After Another’ Is Really About
A.A. Dowd The Ringer
The Riyadh Comedy Festival Is a Bad Joke
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
Anatomy of an It Girl
Joan Juliet Buck Air Mail
Tyler Robinson and the Violence of Porn
Samuel D. James First Things
An Art Magazine? In This Economy?
Charlotte Klein New York Magazine
Strange Bedfellows of the New Baby Boom Agenda
Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason
The Illusion of Rescue in 'Alice or The Wild Girl'
GD Dess Socrates on the Beach
How Late-Night Became a Free Speech Battleground
Phillip Maciak New Republic
The West Needs To Rediscover Religion & Enchantment
Auguste Meyrat Federalist
Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?
Emily Temple LitHub
The Showers Will Continue
Andrew Boryga Dwell
The Problem With #BossBabe Leftism
Matt Bruenig The Argument
Go See 'One Battle After Another' Right Now
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Where to Start in Reading David Foster Wallace
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
A Way Out For American Higher Education
Truman Cunningham Commonplace
The New Political Religion—and How to Fight It
Stephen Pimentel Modern Age
Gen Z Is Not as Besotted With AI as You Think
Clare Ashcraft Persuasion


Wednesday, October 1
The Cars’ Deep Influence on the Future of Music
Steven Hyden The Ringer
“The Smashing Machine” Pulls Its Punches
Richard Brody The New Yorker
A Muscle Man’s Message to America’s Lost Boys
Josh Code The Free Press
The Art of Winning (And Losing)
Olivia Cheng The Metropolitan Review
If the Gumshoe Fits
Christian Lorentzen Bookforum
The Shallow Future Is Already Here
Santiago Ramos Wisdom of Crowds
A Halfway Step to Nature
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
MICHAEL ROBERT LISKA with Valerie Stivers
Valerie Stivers The Brooklyn Rail
The Legend of Zohran
James Pogue Vanity Fair
Paul Kingsnorth Wants Us to Worship Nature
Alexander Nazaryan New York Times
The Last Reader: A Fantasia for Cynthia Ozick
Charlie Tyson Liberties
An Ozempic in Every Lunch Box
Hannah Rowan The New Atlantis
The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time
Multiple authors Pitchfork
The Front Porch
The Editors County Highway
On Thomas Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket”
Cobi Chiodo Powell Cleveland Review of Books
INTERVIEW: Jordan Castro by Brian Allen Carr
Brian Allen Carr Zona Motel
Chad Powers Is the Ted Lasso of College Football
Alex Kirshner Slate
The Flag of Ahab
Charles Baxter Lapham's Quarterly
From Lawfare to Barfare
Benjamin Weingarten RealClearInvestigations
The Stripped-Down Costumes of Cult Classic ‘Showgirls’
Scarlett Harris CNN
K-Pop Demons Hunting Teenage Dreams
Benjamin Studebaker Cracks in Postmodernity


Thursday, October 2
Should College Get Harder?
Joshua Rothman The New Yorker
The Thing Leonardo DiCaprio Doesn’t Get Enough Credit For
Frazier Tharpe GQ
The Myth of Small-Town America
Farahn Morgan UnHerd
What Does MAGA Taste Like?
Adam Platt Grub Street
Nomads and the Global Village
Sam Buntz Romanticon
The Disenchantment of Baseball
Nick Burns The Hedgehog Review
We Are The Slop
Freya India After Babel
The End of Free Speech Liberalism
Dylan Partner Compact
On Jordan Castro’s 'Muscle Man'
Max Schlenker The Brooklyn Rail
Randi Weingarten Fears Parents' Freedom to Choose
Caroline Breashears RCEd
Undelivered Glory
Paul Franz The Metropolitan Review
In the Penile Colony
Adam Wilson Bookforum
Hillary Clinton Rips White Christian Men
Hank Berrien Daily Wire
The Viability of the ‘Sick Woman Book’ Canon
Emmeline Clein Cultured
Speaking Apartment
Jane Stern The Paris Review
Bullsh*t Writing
John Warner The Biblioracle Recommends
To Forgive or Not to Forgive?
Daniel McCarthy Modern Age


Friday, October 3
Connecticut Should Pass on Investing in the Sun
Andrew Fowler RealClearBooks
The Murder of Jamal Khashoggi is More Complicated Than We All Knew
Thomas Jason Anderson RealClearBooks
Rock, Smash
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Finest Comic Actor Working Today Is Leonardo DiCaprio
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
Field Notes on Magic
Andrew Boryga Places Review
The Parents of Charlie Kirk’s Prodigal Assassin
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
Ocean Vuong: Romantic Hero
Denise S. Robbins The Republic of Letters
It’s the Internet, Stupid
Francis Fukuyama Persuasion
Fields of Dreams
Daniel Oppenheimer & Ross Barkan & Alex Perez Eminent Americans
The Rock Returns as 'The Smashing Machine'
Terry Gross NPR
Are You a Man or a Machine?
M.D. Aeschliman Modern Age
Captivity Narrative: Q&A with Molly McNett
Molly McNett Close Reading
Announcing the Winners of the Tom Wolfe Literary Prizes
Julia Vitale Air Mail
To Revive Sex, Ban Porn
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
Tricky Muscularity
Sam Franzini Soft Union
New York’s COVID Comeback
Aaron M. Renn Commonplace
Man Raised $200,000 for the Man Who Attacked His Church
Sonia A. Rao NYTimes
The Press Is Not Under Attack
Gary Abernathy Abernathy Road
Cartooning Around
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Antidotes to Male Loneliness by Wisdom of Crowds
Available this week: "The Grand Valley" by Morgan Meis
Follow RealClearBooks on Twitter
Sign up for the RealClearBooks e-mail newsletter and never miss an update!


Copyright © RealClearBooks, LLC
© RealClearBooks | | Go to full site