RealClearBooks Week of October 6, 2025 Archives

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Monday, October 6
Marlon Brando's Delusional Greatness
Gage Klipper RealClearBooks
The ‘Life of a Showgirl’ Exit Survey
Staff The Ringer
The Eternal Gore Vidal
Ross Barkan Political Currents
On 'One Battle After Another'
Nick Pinkerton 4Columns
Free Speech Is a Core American Value
Kenin M. Spivak The American Mind
The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out
Ben Schwartz The Nation
Gore Vidal’s Final Feud
Matt Tyrnauer Vanity Fair
The Right Must Stand for Free Speech
Gregory Conti Compact
Love Your Darlings
Chris Jesu Lee The Metropolitan Review
Who Is Nick Land?
Daniel Miller Tablet
Taylor Swift Chooses Chaos
Craig Jenkins Vulture
Hamlet Is the Gen Z Story We Need Right Now
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Limits of Free Speech Libertinism
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack
How the World Left Steven Pinker Behind
Finn McRedmond The New Statesman
"Common Knowledge" and the Games People Play
The Ivy Exile Substack
The Rise of the Mega-Influencer
Phillip Dolitsky & Luke Moon Engelsberg Ideas
Are Americans Too Political?
Thomas Dias Acton Institute
Seasons in the Sun
Charlotte Allen Quillette
Jane Austen on Law and Liberty
Allen Mendenhall The Freeman
If Gertrude Stein’s Art Could Talk
Francesca Wade Air Mail
Remembering the Hard Hat Riot
Vincent J. Cannato City Journal
Percival Everett's Therapist Is Better Than Yours
Pete Beatty The Republic of Letters
Gallery of the Gods
Tunku Varadarajan Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, October 7
How Warner Bros. Dominated Movies in 2025
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
What’s Eating George Clooney?
Ryan D'Agostino Esquire
The Realism Deal
Brandon Taylor & Stephanie Wambugu Bookforum
On 'The Life of a Showgirl'
Anna Gaca Pitchfork
Allen Mendenhall’s Hilarious & Ominous Novel
David Deavel Imaginative Conservative
Pynchon-heads, This One’s for Us
Jack Denton Vulture
Working on a Style
George Dardess Close Reading
Female Friendship Novel in the Era of the Group Chat
Edna Bonhomme New Republic
Gore Vidal, Re-revisited
Vincenzo Barney Barney’s Rubble
Randolph Scott, Virtuous Loner of the West
Hannah Long The Bulwark
The Inside Story of How Bronny Got the Lakers Gig
Yaron Weitzman Vanity Fair
Freedom’s Feisty Fighter
Daniel McCarthy New York Post
Pam Grier in Person: Foxy Brown as a Woman in Full
Mark Judge Chronicles
Minor, Minor, Minor Writer
Jeff Alessandrelli Zona Motel
Why Is Organized Labor So Catholic?
Drew Holden Commonplace
Barfare: The Next Front in America’s Political Warfare
Maggie Miller RCI
Matricide: the Summer of Dramione
Elizabeth Kaye Cook Substack


Wednesday, October 8
Taylor Swift’s New Album Is a Masterpiece of Cringe
Carl Wilson Slate
Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art
Lauren Michele Jackson The New Yorker
The Last Postmodern Novel
Anika Jade Levy Kismet
A Playwright Without Heirs
Alexander Larman The Critic
Totality Without Signification
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Pittsburgh Review of Books
Did Leo Strauss Get Religion?
Paul Seaton Civitas Outlook
Thomas Pynchon’s World of Shadows
William T. Vollmann UnHerd
Nothing is Over
Luke McGowan-Arnold The Metropolitan Review
Animal Memoirs Gone Wild
Rebecca van Laer Orion Magazine
Force of Habit
Greta Rainbow Family Style
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic
7 New Books You Should Read This October
Emma Alpern & Jasmine Vojdani Vulture
Nothing Left Inside
Anton Cebalo Novum Newsletter
“To Free Someone Else”: Toni Morrison the Book Editor
Marina Magloire The Nation
Yesterday’s Totalitarian
Gage Klipper Chronicles
The Future of American Fiction Is Not in NYC
Michael P. Gibson Spectator World
Justice Neil Gorsuch’s Advice? Look to Our Founding
Jason Cao The Buckley Beacon
The Importance of Boredom
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
You Might Be Writing About Yourself Too Much
Audrey Lee Substack
Against News-Cycle Christianity
Matthew Burdette Theology of Culture


Thursday, October 9
Dwayne Johnson and the Career Reinvention Oscar
Julianna Ress The Ringer
The Uncanceling of Chris Brown
Craig Jenkins Vulture
Thomas Pynchon’s Lasting Triumph
Leo Robson The New Statesman
Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
You Wouldn’t Be Here for Someone Else
B.D. McClay The Substack Post
Elegy and Effigy
Paul Franz Romanticon
You Say You Want a Revolution
Daniella Nichinson The Metropolitan Review
The Matriarch of Spiritual Revolution
Randy Rosenthal The American Scholar
Walking with Wordsworth
Peter Schwendener Commonweal
The Future of Feminism Is Childcare
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
Quit Romanticizing Boredom
Anna North The Cut
The Power Theory of Free Speech
Yascha Mounk Substack
The Translator’s Voice
Ian J. Battaglia Chicago Review of Books
Is Donald Trump a Viking Warlord?
Evie Solheim The American Conservative
Brad Ingelsby Is Redefining Great American Storytelling
Brady Langmann Esquire
Shelf Life: Kiran Desai
Riza Cruz Elle
My Parents’ Marriage
Susan Cheever The Paris Review


Friday, October 10
The Real Battle of 'One Battle After Another'
Richard Brody The New Yorker
The Five True Originals of the 21st-Century NBA
Rob Mahoney The Ringer
Why László Krasznahorkai Won the Nobel Prize
Leo Robson The New Statesman
The Battle That Really Counts
Jack Hunter Modern Age
Reading Books Made a Man Out of Me
Shilo Brooks The Free Press
The Connector
Brad East Arc
The MAGA Whisperer
Tatiana Siegel Variety
Mac and The Volvo
Andy Bourne Dirt
Girls Gone Rural: Emmalea Russo's Reading List
Emmalea Russo Language Arts
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring
Alex Shephard & Mark Krotov New Republic
Never Bet Against America
Tomas Pueyo Pirate Wires
Who’s Laughing Now
Adam Wilson The Baffler
Review of “The Grand Valley” by Morgan Meis
J. M. Tyree 3 Quarks Daily
The FBI’s Flawed Data
Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations
‘The Breakfast Club,’ and Better Teen Movies
Mark Judge Chronicles
Tradition: Everyone’s Doing It!
Maggie Phillips Cracks in Postmodernity
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Must Show ID by Compact
Available this week: "The Grand Valley" by Morgan Meis
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