RealClearBooks Week of October 20, 2025 Archives

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Monday, October 20
Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers Are a Sight to Behold
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Shohei Ohtani’s GOAT Game
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
The Politics of Narcissism
Matthew Gasda Café Américain
The Twilight of the Clerks
Udith Dematagoda The Metropolitan Review
Martin Mull’s Short Stories Bring Levity
Zoe Strimpel Spectator World
The Forgotten Beginning of the End of History
Jack Hanson Foreign Policy
The Last Novelist Who Won’t Write About Himself
Sam Kriss The Times
Real America’s Voice and the Real Cost of Free Speech
David DesRosiers RCPolitics
A Poet on Mars
Camille Caprioglio Aeon
The Man From Another Place
Henry Begler Romanticon
Short Sagas for Team MAGA
Ian Smith The American Mind
Strange Fascination
William Giraldi The Baffler
Racing Earnhardt
Emina Melonic Civitas Outlook
America Needs an Aesthetics Czar
Timothy Sekerak Pirate Wires
‘As Long as I’m Living’
Evie Solheim The American Conservative
Complex Systems
Saffron Huang The Point Magazine
'After the Hunt' Would Like to Touch a Nerve
Adam Nayman New Republic
The Narcissistic Cult of the Winter Arc
Ella Dorn The New Statesman
Faith of Our Founders
Tal Fortgang Washington Free Beacon
Stand-up Guy
Adrian Horton Air Mail
Michael Mohr's American Freaks
Adam Fleming Petty The Republic of Letters
Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe
Mitch Therieau New York Times


Tuesday, October 21
The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
Karl Ove Knausgaard The New Yorker
In ‘Task,’ Faith Is Defined by Doubts—and Doubters
Katie Baker The Ringer
On Amazon (briefly) and Panamerica Books
Paul Bogaards Kill Your Darlings
The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction
Gerald Howard NYTimes
Unexpected Profundity of a Movie About Bird-Watching
Tyler Austin Harper Atlantic
The Saul Bellow He Didn’t Want the World to See
Alec Nevala-Lee Slate
Young Republicans Are Radicalizing Themselves Online
River Page The Free Press
I Coulda Guessed Half of That
Daniel Gavilovski The Metropolitan Review
The Case For Juan Rulfo
Brandon Westlake The Republic of Letters
AI Will Never Be Your Friend
Zito Madu The Nation
The Metrograph Interview #1: Clint Eastwood
Nick Pinkerton Metrograph
What Kind Of Monster: All Fours, Alas
Devon Halliday Liberties
Extreme Makeover, Gothic Edition
Adrian Van Young Southwest Review
Identity as Burden, Identity as Grace
Blake Smith Arc
Everyone Seems to Be On Zimmers’
Michael Hann The Guardian
How Trump Changed Conservatism
Waters and Ellwanger RealClearHistory
Inside Connecticut’s Amistad Awards
Meghan Portfolio Yankee Institute
Sneaky Way Corporate America Blacklists Conservatives
Tyler O'Neil Daily Signal
Louis C.K.’s Texas Novel Isn’t Just Bad—It’s Not Texan
Dan Solomon Texas Monthly
Taylor Swift’s Hollow Gematria
Arye Dworken Tablet
The Necessity of Inequality
Carmel Richardson The American Conservative


Wednesday, October 22
History Still Matters, and So Does David McCullough
Caleb Franz Real Clear Books
The King of Comedy Writers
Alan Siegel The Ringer
Into the Manosphere—in Manuscripts
Leah Abrams Cleveland Review of Books
The Psychology of 'Portnoy'
Steven J. Zipperstein LitHub
In Conversation With Nick Land
Monica Sobchak Spectator World
The Problem of the Parlor
Douglas Dowland Los Angeles Review of Books
Ballad of a Song and Dance Man
Ronald Radosh Quillette
The Future of Sentimental Attachments
Santiago Ramos Wisdom of Crowds
The Morality Pageant
Audrey Horne Substack
Errands of Love
Blake Smith & Domenic DeSocio Romanticon
Will We Miss the Ivory Towers?
Becca Rothfeld & Ben Jeffery The Point’s Substack
How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
Stephanie LaCava Has a Thing for Cinematic Books
Sadie Bell Marie Claire
'Task' Is the Show of the Year
Frazier Tharpe GQ
Is the Internet Too Fragile?
Tanner Nau The Free Press


Thursday, October 23
How Kaitlin Olson Made 'High Potential' a Sleeper Hit
Josh Rosenberg Esquire
When Abel Ferrara Was King of New York
Abel Ferrara GQ
To Hell With the End of the World
Caleb Caudell The Metropolitan Review
The Goon Squad
Daniel Kolitz Harper's
Welcome to the Casino Economy
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
Is There More to Mine From Stephen King’s ‘It’?
Miles Surrey The Ringer
James Marriott on the Post-Literate Society
Jared Henderson The Honest Broker
The Jonas Brothers Got Through It Together
Dave Holmes Esquire
Grass Sick
Josh Code The Free Press
Fanny Howe Found Her Voice in the Romance Novel
Meghan Racklin New Republic
Boys Need Stories, Too
Elizabeth Grace Matthew Public Discourse
What Is the Scariest Book?
Brian Truitt USA Today
A Film on War and Friendship
Noel Yaxley Modern Age
The Kids Can’t Focus
Hannah Frankman Hood The Daily Economy
An End to the Rights Revolution?
James Piereson The New Criterion


Friday, October 24
Straight Out of the Great American Musical Biopic Songbook
Adam Nayman Ringer
The Los Angeles Dodgers Are America’s Team
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Online
Dan Hitchens Compact
A Long-Overdue Shakeup in Higher Education
Michael Torres City Journal
The Lost Boys of 'Task'
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
A Downbeat Take on the Heist Movie
Vikram Murthi The Nation
How Rachel Sennott Learned to 'Love L.A.'
Selome Hailu Variety
Adam Silver Is on a One-Man Mission to Ruin the NBA
Jack Bedrosian Jacobin
Making Babies
Gillian Goodman Dirt
My Only Ever Krasznahorkai Review
Nate West Substack
Why People Are Still Obsessed With the Montreal Expos
Matthew Roberson GQ
"Deliver Me from Nowhere" Tamps the Boss Down
Richard Brody New Yorker
Self-Mastery Is Good, Actually
Damon Linker Persuasion
The Appeal of the Campus Right
Julia Steinberg The Atlantic
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Have Women Ruined Everything? by The Unspeakeasy
Available this week: "The Grand Valley" by Morgan Meis
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