RealClearBooks Week of October 13, 2025 Archives

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Monday, October 13
Diane Keaton Was Effortlessly Original
Brian Phillips The Ringer
The Kansas City Chiefs Are Depressing
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Diane Keaton: The Last Transcendent Actress
Charles McElwee UnHerd
Everything Is Television
Derek Thompson Substack
Jewish Lightning
Noah Rinsky The Metropolitan Review
Negative Aesthetics
Leo Robson New Left Review
Diane Keaton at the Dam
Amanda Fortini Pennyroyal
The Curious Case of Thomas Pynchon
Alexander Sorondo Air Mail
John Ford’s America
Alberto M. Fernandez The American Mind
Writing is Thinking
Spencer Klavan Rejoice Evermore
Britney, Bernie, Balenciaga
Gage Klipper Cracks in Postmodernity
The Destructiveness of Ideological Thinking
Daniel DiSalvo City Journal
Under the Influence
Kara Kennedy Washington Free Beacon
Conversion by Inches?
Brian Smith Civitas Outlook
The Real Ozzy
Alexander Riley Chronicles
Platinum Is Expendable. Are People?
Leah Libresco Sargeant Commonplace
Arvo Pärt’s Popularity Exposes A Hunger For Beauty
Elizabeth Jerrell The Federalist
I of the Needle
Kazuo Robinson Substack
On ‘Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Diane Scharper DC Examiner
On 'Big Kiss, Bye-Bye'
Jessi Jezewska Stevens 4Columns
Who Killed the Montreal Expos?
Robert Daniels RogerEbert.com


Tuesday, October 14
Diane Keaton’s Shadows and Light
Hilton Als The New Yorker
The NBA Enters Its SGA Era
Yang-Yi Goh GQ
The Book That Could Shake the Pope’s Faith
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
The Girl Dad Movie Canon
Jodi Walker The Ringer
Thirteen Windows into the Conservative Mind
Jeffrey O. Nelson Law & Liberty
Woody Allen Remembers Diane Keaton
Woody Allen The Free Press
On Matthew Gasda's Zoomers
Denise S. Robbins The Republic of Letters
The Bros of Indie Baseball
Justin Kloczko Substack
The Fanatical Politicization of Art and Poetry
Vladislav Davidzon Substack
The Last Enlightenment Man
James Marriott Air Mail
Taking Charles Murray Seriously
Anthony Sacramone Acton Institute
Transhumanism: The Oldest Trick in the Book
C.R. Wiley Modern Age
Working the Phones
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative
Who Was Peter Matthiessen, Really?
Terry McDonell LitHub


Wednesday, October 15
The Grand Valley
Morgan Meis RealClearBooks
Taylor Swift Is in Her Showgirl Era
Nora Princiotti The Ringer
Jim Jarmusch Movies, Definitively Ranked
Jesse Hassenger GQ
A Land Without Opera
Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri Engelsberg Ideas
The New Hollywood Dilemma
Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review
The Faith of Nick Land
Geoff Shullenberger Compact
The Vindication of László Krasznahorkai
Stephen Lurie The New Republic
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
Idrees Kahloon The Atlantic
Heather Cox Richardson’s Revisionism
Blake Dodge & Katherine Dee Pirate Wires
How I Learned to Love Confession
Valerie Stivers First Things
58 Books You Need to Read
Multiple authors LitHub
A (Very) Brief Introduction to László Krasznahorkai
Vladislav Davidzon Substack
Without Books We Will Be Barbarians
Niall Ferguson The Free Press
The Cool Girl Novel
Ceci Browning The Times
Elizabeth Warren: Leftism For Thee But Not Me
Paul Sperry RealClearInvestigations
A Classic Cortázar Novel Is Back
Miranda Mazariegos Americas Quarterly


Thursday, October 16
D’Angelo Was Timeless
Justin Charity The Ringer
How Josh O’Connor Became the Thinking Man’s Leading Man
Ben Allen GQ
The Right to Bear Technology
Katherine Boyle The Free Press
Klein, Coates and a Viable Ethics of Power
Daniel Oppenheimer Eminent Americans
What’s the Point of Remaking Amadeus?
Alexander Larman The Spectator
Can the Humanities Be Saved?
Anastasia Berg & Jennifer Frey The Point’s Substack
The New World
Jeremy Stern Colossus
Why God Came Back
Joel Kotkin UnHerd
Wouk Backlash
Theo Lipsky The Metropolitan Review
Rescuing Democracy From The Quiet Rule Of AI
Andrew Sorota Noema
Why Novels Used To Matter, And Still Can
Titus Techera Fusion
Cooper Flagg Put the League on Notice
Tim MacMahon ESPN
We Have to Try to Be Nice to Each Other
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
'Roofman' Is a Bummer of a Feel-Good Movie
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Saying Goodbye to ‘Stranger Things’
Adam B. Vary & Kate Aurthur Variety
Recluse Books
Maya Lerman Dirt
Book Review: Martin Cruz Smith's "Gorky Park"
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
The Rise and Fall of Hunter S. Thompson (Part 3 of 3)
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Bach is a Strange Loop
Denise S. Robbins Romanticon
Chinese SIM Farms Radicalizing Americans
Steve Baker & Joseph M. Hanneman Blaze


Friday, October 17
Dwyane Wade Conquered the NBA. Can He Win at TV?
Matthew Roberson GQ
Statue Season: Explaining the Netflix Oscar Problem
Julianna Ress The Ringer
The Matter of Money
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Can Boxing Ever Be Made “Safe?”
Carlos Acevedo City Journal
When ‘Care’ Is a Dirty Word
Evie Solheim Commonplace
Tame Impala Is an Obsessive, Not a Perfectionist
Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker
The Millions’ Great Fall 2025 Book Preview
Editor The Millions
Post-American Blues
Ryan Ruby New Left Review
How to Save the Internet From “Enshittification”
Bartolomeo Sala Jacobin
Why People Are Falling in Love With Chatbots
Lara Brown Spectator World
Your Friend Is Not Your Friend
Ripley Stroud Wisdom of Crowds
Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?
Kate Wagner The Nation
The Emptiness of Revolution
Michael Lucchese Law & Liberty
Let Taylor Swift Be In Love
Mark Judge Splice Today
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Talking Smack by Compact
Available this week: "The Grand Valley" by Morgan Meis
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