RealClearBooks Week of November 3, 2025 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

Monday, November 3
MLB’s Modern Dynasty Won the World Series of a Lifetime
Ben Lindbergh Ringer
The Endurance of Martha Stewart’s 'Entertaining'
Hannah Goldfield The New Yorker
The Role of Music in Civic Life
Jacob Lute Jack Miller Center
Political Theory in the Age of Mass Migration
David Polansky Wisdom of Crowds
The Bookstore Time Forgot
Chase Steely Frontier
The Conservative Tide Coming for US Universities
J. Oliver Conroy The Guardian
We All Live in a Village Now
Yascha Mounk Substack
Factory Farming is a Blight
Liv Boeree Palladium
Staring Into the Arena
Jennifer May Reiland Romanticon
The Return of the Luddites
Erik J. Larson Los Angeles Review of Books
At Last, College Football in the Rio Grande Valley
Jack Sullivan Texas Monthly
Woody Allen’s New York—and Mine
Stephanie Wambugu The Nation
AI and the Divine Test
Spencer A. Klavan Civitas Outlook
The Straight-Male Case for Pilates
Will Rahn The Free Press
Poe, Forevermore
Emina Melonic Law & Liberty
‘Peanuts’ at 75
Mark Judge Chronicles
Don’t Take Virginia Giuffre’s Memoir at Face Value
Ian Maxwell Spectator World
Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025 (Part 2)
Sam Franzini Our Culture
Trial by Fandom
Monia Ali Pirate Wires
From the Homeless to Prisons and Beyond
Bonnie Naradzay Slant Books
Nancy Rommelmann's Account of the Portland ICE Protests
Maggie Miller RCI
I Will Find a City
Matt Hanson Quillette
Do Universities Need Radical Reform?
Brandon Warmke The Freeman


Tuesday, November 4
Stephen Colbert on the End of The Late Show
Zach Baron GQ
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
James Somers The New Yorker
The Fantasy of the CEO-Monarch
Muzainy Shahiefisally Compact
Requiem for the Woke Era
Sam Kahn Castalia
Why London’s Literati Can’t Write
Rose Lyddon UnHerd
Laura Mulvey Returns to the Male Gaze
Leo Robson The New Statesman
Literature Is Not a Vibe
Rachele Dini Los Angeles Review of Books
Tracy Morgan Charms in 'Crutch'
Aramide Tinubu Variety
The Nonfiction Artist
Max Vadukul The Metropolitan Review
The Arrival of Another Voice of a Generation
Sam Adams Slate
'Deliver Me From Nowhere' Is a Biopic Without Mystique
David Klion New Republic
Dodgers Become Baseball’s Modern Dynasty
Tom Verducci Sports Illustrated
Revisiting T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock”
Peggy Rosenthal Slant Books
Building Citizens
Justin Shubow Jack Miller Center
‘Furious Minds’ Review: The Road to MAGA
Richard M. Reinsch II Wall Street Journal
The NFL's Big Muddle
Ray Ratto Defector
The Nightmare of Californication
Derek Parker Chronicles
The World According to John Irving
Scott Cacciola The New York Times


Wednesday, November 5
Princeton President (Sort Of) Supports Free Speech
Robert Maranto RealClearBooks
Joachim Trier Has Put Oslo on the Cinematic Map
Margaret Talbot The New Yorker
Learning from Zola
Anthony Domestico Commonweal
Sanctify Yourself
Michael Barron The Point
Big Tech’s Assault on Maryland
Farahn Morgan UnHerd
Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?
Celine Nguyen Asterisk
The Two Rods, Charlie, Tucker, and Nick
Daniel Oppenheimer Eminent Americans
Homo Subscribens
Matthew Burdette Theology of Culture
America's Most Influential Fiction Journal
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
It’s Hard to Be Chronically Online and Hate Your Friends
Erin Somers NYTimes
Plato and the Poets
Elaine Scarry The Boston Review
Kelly Reichardt's Labors of Love
Robert Rubsam Defector
Zohran Mamdani Will Destroy New York
Heather Mac Donald The Spectator
The Illusion of Rescue in 'Alice or The Wild Girl'
GD Dess Socrates on the Beach
Satire 'Slam Frank' Pretends To Be Anti-Woke
Gage Klipper State of the Day
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
Brian Phillips The Ringer
Muriel Spark and the Doppelgänger That Wasn’t
Walker Rutter-Bowman New Republic


Thursday, November 6
The Rule Breaker: Anna Freud
Jeff Cunningham RealClearBooks
Do We Need Hobbies?
Joshua Rothman The New Yorker
Poetry and the Censor
Paul Franz Romanticon
Desperate Radicals and Wise Latinos
Santiago Ramos Wisdom of Crowds
The 7 Books That Inspired Anika Jade Levy’s 'Flat Earth'
Emma Specter Vogue
Anthony Bourdain Reheated
Finn McRedmond The New Statesman
Who Is Winning the NBA’s TV Arms Race?
Tyler Parker The Ringer
Vital Signs
Tara Isabella Burton The Hedgehog Review
Frauds, Frenemies, and Flat Earthers
Halle Butler Interview Magazine
‘Predator: Badlands’ Review
Sonny Bunch The Bulwark
Is Humanistic Knowledge Useless?
Jon Baskin & Michael Lipkin The Point’s Substack
An Interview With Clare Ashcraft
Greta Dieck The Republic of Letters
I Found It: Reflections on Male Friendship
Mark Judge Chronicles
SZA on Topping Charts, Making Music & Opting Out of Feuds
Frazier Tharpe GQ


Friday, November 7
Florence Welch Learns How to Scream
Grace Byron The New Yorker
The NBA Has Found a Way to Stop Wemby
Danny Chau The Ringer
On Claire-Louise Bennett’s 'Big Kiss, Bye-Bye'
Madeleine Crum Brooklyn Rail
Baby Shoggoth Is Listening
Dan Kagan-Kans The American Scholar
How Bookstores Decide Which Books to Sell
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
Do You Like Me?
Madeline Howard Los Angeles Review of Books
A Drop of Golden Sun
Gage Klipper Law & Liberty
Knausgaard Can’t Escape His Own Story
Sam Jennings UnHerd
Carlson and Fuentes Betray Young Men
Daniel J. Mahoney The American Mind
Americans Are Increasingly Alone
Christopher J. Ferguson RealClearInvestigations
The Novel Life
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Bob Dylan Rings in His Ears
Jack Walters Pop Matters
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries
Jason Koebler 404 Media
‘The American Revolution’ Review
Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter
Chronicle of a Decline Foretold
The Ivy Exile Substack
The Real Split on the Right
Batya Ungar-Sargon The Free Press
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Trust, Politics, and Community by Wisdom of Crowds
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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