RealClearBooks Week of December 1, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 1
Noah Baumbach Fell (Back) in Love with the Movies
Susan Morrison New Yorker
In the Autumn of Salman Rushdie
Tanjil Rashid The New Statesman
The British Spiritual Twilight
Annie Levin The Metropolitan Review
A Kinder, Gentler Feminism
Kayla Bartsch Washington Free Beacon
Tom Stoppard and Me
David Mamet The Free Press
American Marxists
Kevin Schmiesing Law & Liberty
I Went on a Quest to Fix My Metabolism. Here's What I Learned
Tom Ward GQ
What Do Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath Have in Common?
Laura Miller Slate
Confections
Lily Lynch New Left Review
David Duchovny Can’t Say No
Stuart Heritage Air Mail
When Frank Leahy Was America's Coach
Jonathan Clarke City Journal
Be Thankful, Not Resentful
Fred Bauer Fusion
A Time of Monsters
Anthony Galluzzo Romanticon
Salman Rushdie on New Story Collection, Writing Styles
Eric Olson Seattle Times


Tuesday, December 2
Tom Stoppard’s Radical Invitation
Helen Shaw The New Yorker
We Still Don’t Know What Lane Kiffin Wants
Ben Glicksman The Ringer
Catching Up with Helen Fielding
Rosa Lyster The Paris Review
The Incoherence of Ken Burns’s ‘The American Revolution’
Adam Rowe Compact
Jesus Christ is Born in Texas
Chandler Fritz County Highway
What Kind of Country Is This?: On “The Secret Agent”
Rafaela Bassili MUBI
Red Still Runs Through You
David Hering Los Angeles Review of Books
The Moral Authority Of Animals
Jay Griffiths Noema
The Evolving Division of American Discourse
Stephen G. Adubato Arcade Publishing
The Dave Barry 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
Dave Barry Substack
'Thinking About Crime' at 50
Charles Fain Lehman City Journal
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
Miriam Gershow LitHub
The Work of the Deadlift
Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work
A Dystopian Tale Comes of Age
J. Antonio Juarez The Everyman
Emerson’s “The Poet”
Peggy Rosenthal Slant Books
Anti-Woke Counter-Revolution Is Sweeping Through the Media
Joel Kotkin Spiked


Wednesday, December 3
The 100 Best Episodes of the Century
Staff The Ringer
“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails
Justin Chang The New Yorker
Will "The Great Feminization" Displace the Old Model?
Brian Lee Crowley Civitas
The Dark Secrets of the Writer Behind ‘Train Dreams’
Wyatt Williams New York Times
International Law Is Fake
Neeraja Deshpande Pirate Wires
The Fuentes Fallacy
Spencer A. Klavan Fairer Disputations
Ends of Calm Looking, Hearing, Feeling
Albert F Moritz Romanticon
Accommodation Nation
Rose Horowitch The Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025
Sam Franzini Our Culture
‘Marty Supreme’ Review
David Ehrlich IndieWire
My Cure for Student Reading Fatigue? Movies.
Gregor Campbell Macleans
How Suburbia Reshaped American Catholic Life
Stephen G. Adubato First Things
Carrying On
Maggie Phillips RealClearInvestigations
‘Are They Human?’
Alexander Stern Commonweal
Peter Matthiessen, Mystical Renaissance Man
Diane Scharper Washington Examiner
Are You a Leading Thinker?
Gary Abernathy Abernathy Road


Thursday, December 4
The Curious Notoriety of “Performative Reading”
Brady Brickner-Wood New Yorker
Plot Isn’t as Important to Great TV as You Think
Brian Phillips The Ringer
As a Twin, I'm Offended by Cloning
Leonora Barclay Persuasion
The Last Useful Man
Aled Maclean-Jones The Metropolitan Review
I Still Feel a Tiny Bit Sorry for Olivia Nuzzi
Joan Walsh The Nation
Too Much Gilbert
Charlotte Allen Quillette
Our AI, Ourselves?
Jessi Jezewska Stevens The Dial
John Updike Wrote It All Down
Scott Bradfield The New Republic
Cameron Crowe’s Cringe Magic
Art Tavana Spectator World
After Escaping a Cult, Ben Appel Found Another One
Pamela Paresky Substack
Why I Miss the Pick-up Artists
Sarah Fletcher UnHerd
What the Left Can Learn From Homesteaders
Ralph Leonard Compact
Rediscovering the Soul of Conservatism, Part I
Daniel J. Mahoney The American Mind
Are Labubus Gen Z’s Beanie Babies?
April Liu & Peter C. Earle The Daily Economy
Bad Presidents or Bad Government?
Donald Devine The American Spectator


Friday, December 5
How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe
John Seabrook The New Yorker
The Anatomy of Oscar Bait: ‘Hamnet’ Edition
Julianna Ress The Ringer
Willie Nelson is 92 and Feeling Lucky
Grayson Haver Currin GQ
'Train Dreams' Is Afraid of Its Own Shadow
Robert Rubsam Defector
Can We Forgive Olivia Nuzzi?
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The Conned Artist
Graham Daseler Quillette
Sleep Is Delicious
Sara Protasi Aeon
'Marty Supreme' Review
Vikram Murthi The Film Stage
The 21 Best Comedies of 2025
Eric Francisco Esquire
Faith in Fiction
Valerie Sayers Commonweal
Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise
Nelson Lichtenstein Jacobin
The 10 Best Books of 2025
Laura Miller Slate
Staying Put Amid the Surge
Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations
Farming, Fishing, Failure
Howard Schaap Slant Books
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Amanda Fortini on Jan Kerouac by Lean Out
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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