RealClearBooks Week of December 29, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 29
A Ping-Pong-Specific Review of ‘Marty Supreme’
Miles Surrey The Ringer
The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok
Naomi Fry The New Yorker
Two Prophets of American Faith
David Wolpe The Free Press
God-Haunted Horror
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
Timothée Chalamet Is Bigger Than a Rollout
Frazier Tharpe GQ
How America Went Money Mad
Sam Kriss UnHerd
Tech Wants You to Believe that AI Is Conscious
Nadav Neuman Quillette
The Manifold Mind of Saul Bellow
The Literarian Gazette The Metropolitan Review
Obliterate Europe’s Managerial Plantation
John Waters & Ross Calvin RealClearWorld
Made in America
Sam Bodrojan Los Angeles Review of Books
The Best & Worst Movies I Watched In 2025
Andy Fowler Andy’s Newsletter
Lewis and Tolkien at War
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part I
David Margolick Air Mail
I Hate Engagement Bait
Ben Sixsmith The Critic


Tuesday, December 30
There May Never Be Another Show Like ‘Stranger Things’
Alan Siegel The Ringer
Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025
Cal Newport The New Yorker
Marty Supreme’s American Hustler
Armond White National Review
Why I’m Leaving Harvard
James Hankins Compact
The Cinema of Humanism
Noah Millman Modern Age
Why Artists Choose Catholicism
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Jane Austen Is 250 — and as Relevant as Ever
Daniel McCarthy The New York Post
Our Top Books of 2025—Podcast Edition
Multiple authors Persuasion
The Good Book Is Great
J. Peder Zane RealClearPolitics
The Past Is a Foreign City
Nicholas Clemente The Metropolitan Review
Tom Stoppard, in Loving Memory
Hadley Arkes City Journal
The Nutcracker as a Sexual Awakening
Jennifer May Reiland Romanticon
From Blue Jeans to Blue Banisters
Benjamin Y. Fong Damage
The Christmas of the Quarter-Century
Multiple authors Claremont Review of Books
The Zoomer Loneliness Epidemic
Frank Filocomo The Frank Forum
The Best Steven Spielberg Movies, Definitively Ranked
Jesse Hassenger GQ
The Movie Theater Comeback That Wasn’t
Brent Lang & Rebecca Rubin Variety
Predicting Hollywood in 2026
Multiple authors The Hollywood Reporter


Wednesday, December 31
Why Millennials Love Prenups
Jennifer Wilson The New Yorker
Is the Best Actor Oscar Timothée Chalamet’s to Lose?
Julianna Ress The Ringer
New Year’s Eve Is for Arguing with Friends
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
I Remember Brigitte Bardot
Éric Zemmour Compact
Tech Disrupted Friendship. It’s Time to Bring It Back
Angela Watercutter Wired
Service Jobs Crush Your Soul
Alexander Sorondo The Republic of Letters
George Clooney's Next Era
Brent Lang Variety
'Marty Supreme' Is a Love Letter to the Underdog
Beatrice Loayza The New Republic
The Best Movies of 2025 Have One Thing in Common
Sam Adams Slate
Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ
Daniel McCarthy RCPolitics
Frederick Douglass, American Citizen
Jason Ross Law & Liberty
Odd Girls Out
Moira Donegan The Baffler
The Triumph of Anti-Art
Sam Jennings UnHerd
America Needs Free Speech. RealClear Needs You.
David DesRosiers RCPolitics


Thursday, January 1
Hamilton, Jefferson, and the American Idea
Matt Riffe RealClearBooks
The 2025 Chronically Online Draft Guide
Jodi Walker The Ringer
‘Marty Supreme’ Is a Victim of Its Own Hype
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Norman Podhoretz: the Undeceived
James Piereson City Journal
The Dislocations of Shuang Xuetao
Ting Lin The Nation
What Josh Safdie Told Us About the 'Marty Supreme' Ending
Frazier Tharpe GQ
Fran Lebowitz Lays Down the Law
Sian Cain Air Mail
This Is Top Forty
Robert C. Gilbert The Metropolitan Review
How to Navigate the Year of Slop
Gurwinder Bhogal UnHerd
Afterthoughts
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
Natalia Lafourcade Reimagines Mexican Folk Music
Jack Herrera The New Yorker
How Thomas Mann Wrote 'The Magic Mountain'
Chris Power The Guardian


Friday, January 2
The Psychology of Fashion
Leslie Jamison The New Yorker
The Irresistible Urge to Anoint the Spurs
Danny Chau The Ringer
A Bizarre, Challenging Book More People Should Read
Robert Rubsam The Atlantic
When New Art’s Really Old
Brian T. Allen National Review
The Stranger You Can Trust
Larissa Phillips The Free Press
Only Real Masculinity Can Overcome Groyperism
Justin Lee The American Mind
Quentin Tarantino Says These Seven Films are Perfect
Lucy Ford GQ
A New Year’s Resolution Conservatives Should Keep
David P. Deavel AMAC
The Timmy Hustle Paid Off for 'Marty Supreme'
Chris Lee Vulture
Wes Anderson’s Potemkin Movies
Darran Anderson UnHerd
The Unlovable Ping-Pong Wizard of 'Marty Supreme'
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Why Secondhand Is Now Better Than New
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Finn Wolfhard Finally Left Hawkins, Indiana. What Now?
Josh Rosenberg Esquire
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Battle of the Memes (Part II) by The Everyman
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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