RealClearBooks Week of November 17, 2025 Archives

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Monday, November 17
‘Jay Kelly’ Has Too Much Jay Kelly
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The New New England Patriots
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Guillermo del Toro’s 'Frankenstein' Is Dead Flesh Reanimated
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Colleges Are Surrendering to AI
Yascha Mounk Persuasion
The Bastard Sons of Hunter S. Thompson
Tom Freston Air Mail
SCARY COOL SAD GOODBYE 84
Meaghan Garvey Substack
A Novel in the Bardo
Emma Foley The Metropolitan Review
The Real Crisis of Literacy – We’re Reading Too Much
Kit Wilson New Statesman
Americans Love 'Back to the Future'
Giancarlo Sopo National Review
What Margaret Atwood Got Wrong
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Luca Guadagnino’s Messy Campus Thriller
Lovia Gyarkye The Nation
Escape Artists​
Daniel Yadin The Drift
The Art of the Slipper
Gage Klipper Substack
Menace to Sobriety
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
Memoir of a High-Flying Maverick
Judith Miller City Journal
Scott Galloway on the ‘Mating Crisis’
Will Rahn The Free Press
Amy Coney Barrett and the “Woman Question”
Siobhan Heekin-Canedy Providence
Yes, Hollywood Has Been Feminized
August Meyrat Chronicles
David Szalay Is a Worthy Winner of the Booker Prize
Alexander Larman Spectator


Tuesday, November 18
Lincoln’s Happiest Day: His Final Hours Before the Play
Jeff Cunningham RCBooks
What Has Stephen King Been Trying to Tell Us?
A.A. Dowd The Ringer
Cameron Crowe’s Endless Adolescence
George Monaghan The New Statesman
Laboring in the Dream Factory
Harry Stecopoulos Los Angeles Review of Books
The Fading Friday Night Lights
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
The Glorious Future of Live Music
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Tom Freston Misses MTV, Too
Jake Nevins Vulture
The Trad Movement Is Sputtering. Here’s What Comes Next
Katherine Dee GQ
Laughing at the Lowlifes
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
American Canto: Read the Exclusive Excerpt
Olivia Nuzzi Vanity Fair
On Shadi Hamid's 'The Case for American Power'
David Polansky Strange Frequencies
To Reach ‘Peak Human,’ Let Freedom Fuel Civilization
Joakim Book Daily Economy
The Democratization of Stardom
Allen Mendenhall The Freeman
The 39 Best Movies of 2025 (So Far)
Max Cea Esquire


Wednesday, November 19
Stephen Fry Is Wilde at Heart
Rebecca Mead The New Yorker
Toward a Unified Theory of MrBeast
Justin Charity The Ringer
How the Internet Made the Far-Right
Katherine Dee Persuasion
The Alchemy of the Novel
Ross Barkan Arcade Publishing
Six Gallons of Molasses
Farahn Morgan Long Road Home
Cracking the Code of Female Loneliness
Laura Albert Southwest Review
The Novelists Are Fighting Over Desks
Brendan O'Connor Curbed
The Greatest
Henry Begler The Metropolitan Review
Book Review: Jennifer Dawson, ‘The Ha-Ha’
Sam Franzini Our Culture
Enough of the Literary It Girl
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
Boredom Is Good For You
Zac Hill Wisdom of Crowds
Rosalía’s Restless Heart
Stephen G. Adubato First Things
Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism
Susan Bernofsky The Nation
Using the Night
Mark Iosifescu n+1


Thursday, November 20
The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon
Kevin Lozano New Yorker
Which TV Show Has the Best Coaching Tree?
Alan Sepinwall The Ringer
Predator: Badlands Keeps the Hunt Alive
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Olivia Nuzzi, Teen-Pop Sensation
Cockburn Spectator World
A Generational Portrait That Actually Says Something New
Bekah Waalkes Atlantic
Olivia Nuzzi Is the Inheritor of New Journalism
Lily Isaacs UnHerd
When Grades Stop Meaning Anything
Kelsey Piper The Argument
The Art of Being 26
Sophia June i-D
American Psychos
Aaron Timms The Baffler
Democracy in Diminished Times
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
The World Beneath the Couch Cushions
Nadya Williams Front Porch Republic
The Sinful Suburbs
Stephen G. Adubato Arc
'Deliver Me From Nowhere' Is Wildly Misunderstood
Anthony Breznican Esquire
Landman’s Woman Problem
Rebecca Onion Slate


Friday, November 21
What You’re Missing if you Miss 'Christy'
Jake Kring-Schreifels GQ
The Sandman Cometh (for His Oscar)
Julianna Ress The Ringer
The Cowboy King of Hollywood
Will Pavia Air Mail
(Some) MAGA Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Elaine Godfrey The Atlantic
How Colleen Hoover Took Hollywood
Kayla Webley Adler Elle
Book Review: Barry Diller's Excellent "Who Knew"
John Tamny RealClearBooks
The Best New Restaurants in America in 2025
Multiple authors Eater
What I Meant When I Said Substack Isn’t Cool
Chris Black GQ
Lab-Grown Meat Is MAHA
Cecilia Chang Pirate Wires
How Radiohead Let Down Their Fans
Darran Anderson UnHerd
“Wicked: For Good” Is Very, Very Bad
Justin Chang The New Yorker
The Lost Art of Cigar Smoking
Mychal Denzel Smith Esquire
Of Dating Apps and Brain Rot
Gage Klipper Chronicles
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: How Did Zohran Mamdani Win? by City Journal
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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