RealClearBooks Week of November 10, 2025 Archives

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Monday, November 10
Laura Dern Has the Spirit of Seventies Cinema
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
‘Pluribus’ Smiles Through the Pain of the COVID Era
Miles Surrey The Ringer
We Legalized Sports Betting. Was It Worth It?
Charles Fain Lehman Pirate Wires
A Conservative Rejoinder to the Manosphere
Anna Louie Sussman The Atlantic
In Defence of Striving
Quico Toro Persuasion
Some Notes on God and Laura Riding
Noah Kumin Romanticon
Why Woolf?
Donna Rifkind The Metropolitan Review
When Did Springsteen Stop Making Great Albums?
Matt Feeney UnHerd
Knausgaard, Wallace, Dostoevsky
Jon Baskin The Point’s Substack
Two Drinks with. . . the Greatest Living Magazine Writer
Joe Nocera The Free Press
A Lone Star Is Born
Marina Hyde Air Mail
Read and Ranked: The Booker shortlist 2025
George Monaghan Peaceable Land
Mapping Bob Dylan’s Mind
Prashant Garg Aeon
Springsteen Movie Is an Emotional Workout for Depressives
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Mr. Pooter & the Fevers of Youth
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
Neon in the Blood
Brett Puryear Pedal Steel
It’s Me, Hi, I’m the Problem
Tom Williams Los Angeles Review of Books
The Making of Arundhati Roy
Siddhartha Mahanta The Nation
Always Faithful
John J. Waters RealClearDefense
Education for Freedom
Itxu Diaz Law & Liberty
The White House Press Corps’ Korean Skincare Glow-up
Cockburn The Spectator
School Choice Became a Magnet for Capital
Hannah Frankman Hood Daily Economy
McCartney Takes Flight
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, November 11
A Television Star for the TikTok Generation
Helena Hunt The Ringer
Giannis Antetokounmpo Is a Man Apart
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
How Oscar Isaac Made 'Frankenstein' New Again
Alex Pappademas GQ
Renewing Culture for the Right
Lola Salem The Critic
The Medici Method
Stephen Pimentel Palladium
On 'After That, the Dark: A Cameron Winter Mystery'
Ray Palen Bookreporter
Sydney Sweeney’s Actual Movie
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
I Want To Be There, I’ve Got To Be There
Henry Begler A Good Hard Stare
Trading Places
Dennis Drabelle The American Scholar
Warren Zevon: First Political Scientist in Rock Hall of Fame
Andrew Walworth RCP
Gordon Lightfoot's Musical Memorial Endures
Mike Kerrigan Fox News
Among Ourselves: Free speech, Line one
Katrina Gulliver The Freeman
Who Are Today’s Nihilists?
Anton Cebalo Café Américain
Guillermo del Toro’s 'Frankenstein' Plays It Too Safe
Adam Nayman New Republic
Idle Things
Robert Rubsam The Baffler


Wednesday, November 12
Rosalía Doesn’t Want to Take It Easy
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
If Pitches Are Fixed, Baseball Is Broken
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
The Rise of Latino America
Joel Kotkin & Jennifer Hernandez RealClearInvestigations
Don’t Let Robots Do Your Chores
Leah Libresco Sargeant Pirate Wires
The High-Romantic Nightmare That Wasn’t
Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review
'Blue Moon' Is a Film for Musical Superfans
Eileen Jones Jacobin
AI Regulation is Not Enough. We Need AI Morals
Nicole Brachetti Peretti Time
Oscar Predictions
Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter
San Francisco’s (Partial) Comeback
Sanjana Friedman City Journal
The Monks in the Casino
Derek Thompson Substack
Lucid Dreamer
Paul Franz The Hedgehog Review
Flat Earth Catalog
Ann Manov The Baffler
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review
Owen Gleiberman Variety


Thursday, November 13
David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation
Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker
Billy Bob Thornton Is at Peace
Ryan D'Agostino Esquire
An Interview With Tao Lin
Tao Lin The Republic of Letters
Confronting Nietzsche
Donald J. Devine Modern Age
The College Kids Who Can’t Do Basic Math
Tanner Nau The Free Press
Man’s Best Friend
Jonathan Lethem The Nation
What Happened to Effective Altruism?
Kate Mabus The New Republic
Alex Karp Goes to War
Steven Levy Wired
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Staff Time
Gen Z’s War Against Leggings
Alex Abad-Santos Vox
How Greta Gerwig Taught Noah Baumbach How to Have Fun
Zach Baron GQ
The San Francisco School Sacrificed to Equity
Leighton Woodhouse UnHerd
Thou Shalt Not Judge
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
From Cover to Cover
Mark Judge The New Criterion
Fringe-Facing Figures Will Doom the Right
Oren Cass Commonplace


Friday, November 14
Can You Win Best Picture If You Flop?
Julianna Ress The Ringer
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
The Left’s New Moralism Will Backfire
Thomas Chatterton Williams The Atlantic
Mexico’s Female Rodeo Culture
Leah Dolan CNN
Is Avoiding Embarrassment the Only Goal?
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
Karine Jean-Pierre Is Not a #GirlBoss
Jerusalem Demsas The Argument
How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?
Jacob Bacharach New Republic
Writers Should Be Individuals
Emma Collins A New Heaven
MAHA Is Embracing Elizabeth Holmes. Here’s Why.
Catherine Kim Politico
Frankenstein — Forever Childish
Armond White National Review
Can Erewhon Make America Hot Again?
Hunter Ryerson Pirate Wires
What Happened with the CIA & The Paris Review?
Dan Piepenbring Paris Review
Folk, Feedback, and Fury
David Cohen Quillette
China’s Engineers, America’s Lawyers & Hearts of Men
John Kitch II Civitas Outlook
Why I Cut Ties with Science’s Top Publisher
Anna Krylov The Free Press
Hey, New York: ‘I Told You So!’
John Rocker Chronicles
Under the Surface
Adam Straus Los Angeles Review of Books
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Will the Right Sideline Nick Fuentes? by Wisdom of Crowds
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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