RealClearBooks Week of January 26, 2026 Archives

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Monday, January 26
Amanda Anisimova’s Resilient Return
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Geese Is Ready for Its Close-Up. Are You?
Steven Hyden The Ringer
Exodus: The Largest Wealth Flight in California History
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
We Have Enough Books Set in la & NY
Layla Halabian Language Arts
The Marfa Chronicle
Ann Landi The Metropolitan Review
Ascetic Ghosts in the Machine
M. D. Usher Los Angeles Review of Books
Brooklyn Beckham Needs to Grow Up
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Give Literature Back to the People
Anthony Marigold Substack
‘Hamnet’ Shoots for Girl Power, Misses the Story
Nora Kenney American Conservative
The Infernal Technique
Udith Dematagoda Romanticon
What the Grateful Dead Can Show a Fractured America
J. Peder Zane RCPolitics
One Box Office Battle After Another
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Computers Can’t Surprise
Richard Beard Aeon
The Strange Death of Culture
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
Fernando Mendoza Embodies the Character America Needs
Trey Brock Chronicles
The Scientist Who Saw It Coming
Michael R. Caputo The American Spectator


Tuesday, January 27
'Infinite Jest' Has Turned Thirty
Hermione Hoby The New Yorker
Charli xcx the Brat Is Over. Meet Charli xcx the Actress.
A.A. Dowd The Ringer
Philip Roth’s Coldhearted Betrayals
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert UnHerd
To Accept the Things I Cannot Change
Nora Kenney Mittiga Washington Free Beacon
The Narrative Genius of 'Heated Rivalry'
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
Was Shakespeare Really a Black Woman?
Alexander Larman The Critic
Through Animal Eyes
B.D. McClay The Point
On Sonny Simmons
Harmony Holiday 4Columns
How Democrats Lost Men
Sebastian Junger The Free Press
A Conservative’s Guide to the Best Picture Noms
Giancarlo Sopo National Review
Anne Frank and the Religiosity of Fairy Stories
John Tuttle Slant Books
The Twilight Self
Philip Alcabes The American Scholar
George Whitmore’s Unsparing Queer Fiction
Jeremy Lybarger The Nation


Wednesday, January 28
The Forecast Wars on Weather Twitter
Brady Brickner-Wood The New Yorker
Bill Belichick’s Snub Is a Hall of Fame Embarrassment
Riley McAtee The Ringer
George Saunders Brings Morality Back to Fiction
Julius Taranto The Atlantic
Mold and Melancholia
Madeline Cash The Paris Review
Sheepdog: A Welcome and Powerful Movie
Jack Fowler Philanthropy Daily
The Colossal Mark Twain
Jonathan Leaf Modern Age
Corridors of Grief
Rhian Sasseen The Baffler
You Should Read Colleen Hoover
Elizabeth Kaye Cook & Melanie Jennings Persuasion
Autofiction, Portraiture & Truth, Simply Put
Judson Stacy Vereen Magazine Non Grata
His Struggle
Blake Nelson The Republic of Letters
The Right Kind of Cosmetic Surgery
Alessandra Bocchi Alata Magazine
'Lost Lambs' Puts Teenage Girls in Control
Lucy Scholes The New Statesman
An Uneasy Polemic
Kazuo Robinson Los Angeles Review of Books
About FACE
Benjamin Weingarten RealClearInvestigations
The New Yorker Offered Him a Deal
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
When Did Multiculturalism Get So Complicated?
August Meyrat The Everyman


Thursday, January 29
The Brilliance and the Badness of 'The Sun Also Rises'
Akhil Sharma The New Yorker
A$AP Rocky Is Living His American Dream
Mitchell S. Jackson Esquire
Bolaño over Handlebars
Colin McAfee The Point
Denis Johnson’s Idaho
JP Vallières Zona Motel
How Pro Football Cleaned Up Its Image
Cynthia Littleton Variety
Life as It Should Be
Devon Halliday Los Angeles Review of Books
First Contact with America
Anton Cebalo Novum Newsletter
The Stagnation of the Literary Left
Alan Rossi The Metropolitan Review
Renoir Drawings Raises a Question
Brian T. Allen The National Review
The Curse of Kanye West
Sarah Ditum UnHerd
A Society Where Artists Can’t Make Any Money
Celine Nguyen Personal Canon
Is Sex Really a Spectrum?
Alexander Riley Compact
The Self-Aware Gringo
Derek Neal The Republic of Letters
Revolutionary Loserism
Ira Allen Romanticon
Thomas Sowell's Refusal of Victimhood and Marxism
RCP Video RealClearPolitics
I’m Always in the Club
Christian Lorentzen London Review of Books
Censorship and the Ratchet Effect
Julian Adorney The Daily Economy


Friday, January 30
“The Beauty” Is a Hot Mess
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
‘Wonder Man’ Is a Self-Contained MCU Unicorn
Daniel Chin The Ringer
Text Is (Still) King
Adam Mastroianni Persuasion
‘Bridgerton’ Only Pretends to Be Progressive
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Living Like Woodchucks
Nick Neely Orion Magazine
On Rachel Cusk and D. H. Lawrence
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
Boys and Girls Need Sex-Segregated Spaces
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
Maximally Perverse Obscurantism
Paul Grimstad The Baffler
The Mini Medicis
Lindsay Gellman Dirt
The Liberal Lie About Gentrification
Adrian Nathan West UnHerd
How Was Sociology Invented?
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins The Nation
The Warmth of Collectivism
Asheesh Agarwal Law & Liberty
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: How John Updike Gave Pennsylvania Its Beautiful Due by RCP
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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