RealClearBooks Week of February 2, 2026 Archives

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Monday, February 2
Catherine O’Hara Could Do Anything
Alan Sepinwall The Ringer
What We Expect Athletes to Say Now
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
The Music Never Stopped for Bob Weir
David Shiflett Washington Free Beacon
The Art of Nostalgia
Andrew Eckholm The Point
The Popper Principle
Robert Zaretsky The American Scholar
Melania: Queen of Camp
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Pizza Supreme
Luke Winkie Slate
Lionel Shriver Infuriates the Literary World
Pamela Paul Wall Street Journal
The 50 Most Stylish Men in Music
Editors Esquire
Snowbound Scribbler
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative
Troubling Stories
Diane Scharper The Washington Examiner
Jane Birkin and the Art of Authenticity
Madison Mainwaring The Ringer
My Warning About AI Music from 1988
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Winter Olympics
Dave Barry Substack
‘Cinema Paradiso’ and the Sacrament of Cinema
John Dougherty America Magazine
How to Survive an Emergency
RCP Video RealClearPolitics
Trump’s Push To ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
James Varney RealClearInvestigations


Tuesday, February 3
The Winners and Losers of the 2026 Grammy Awards
Julianna Ress The Ringer
Perennial Predicament of the Artist with an Office Job
Katy Waldman New Yorker
The Revenge of the Periphery
Joel Kotkin Spiked
‘Melania’ Is Really About Barron
Brandon Goldman Compact
In Melania, the Emperor Has a Lot of Clothes
Ryan Zickgraf Jacobin
Sydney Sweeney Created This Moment
Alexandra Whittaker Cosmopolitan
AI Is Accelerating Cognitive Inequality
Stephen Weese The Freeman
The Bots Are Building Their Own Society
Tyler Cowen The Free Press
Behind the Horror Renaissance
Noah Kumin UnHerd
Nobody Knows 'The Bluest Eye'
Namwali Serpell The Nation
Adaptations: "Four Nights of a Dreamer"
Chris Marino Romanticon
How Lewis Pullman Came Back to Earth
Amy Kaufman GQ
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
Walt Hunter The Atlantic Cities
A Philosophy of Twitter Beef
Barry Lam The Republic of Letters
The New 'Night Manager' Is Missing Le Carré Magic
Phillip Maciak New Republic


Wednesday, February 4
The Good Old Days of Sports Gambling
Dan Piepenbring The New Yorker
The Legacy of Pop Star Cinema Lives On
Alan Sepinwall The Ringer
'Infinite Jest' Came Out 30 Years Ago This Week
Abe Beame GQ
Quitting
John Phipps The Point
Here Are the 10 New Books You Should Read in February
Hamilton Cain Time
Reconnecting
Alessandra Bocchi Alata Magazine
The Perils of Hyper-Literacy
Alastair Benn Engelsberg Ideas
Beneath the Stifling Boredom of 'Melania'
John Semley The New Repubic
Notes on The South
Aaron Lake Smith Romanticon
The Censors are Winning
Douglas Murray The Spectator
Power On
Oliver Bateman RealClearInvestigations
Absurd Harvest
Theo Lipsky The Metropolitan Review
Pursuit of Politics & Personalities Ruined Met Opera
Kelly Jane Torrance NYPost
I Can’t Wait To Teach This Pro-America Alternative
Auguste Meyrat The Federalist
Downtowns Are Dying, but We Know How to Save Them
Joel Kotkin LA Times
YouTube Philosophy is Good, Actually
Matthew Adelstein The Republic of Letters


Thursday, February 5
Why America Must Not Turn into Southern Italy
Frank Filocomo RealClearBooks
“Melania” Is a Forty-Million-Dollar Journey Into the Void
Lauren Collins New Yorker
Pittsburgh’s Permanent (and Incomplete) Transformation
Oliver Bateman RCPA
What Will D’Amaro’s Disney Look Like?
Josef Adalian & Chris Lee & Rebecca Alter NYMag
Infinite Jest Is Back. Maybe Litbros Should Be, Too
John Semley Wired
A Superlative Guide to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics
Katie Baker Ringer
On A.S. Hamrah’s Anti-Criticism
Joshua Sperling Cleveland Review of Books
The American Jewish Novel After October 7
Seth Mandel Commentary
Nonprofits and the NFL
Andrew Fowler Philanthropy Daily
Is it Too Late to Save Hollywood?
Kyle Paoletta The Nation
Everyone Is Stealing TV
Janko Roettgers The Verge
Madison Beer Gets Real
Nicole Fell The Hollywood Reporter
Toppling the Boomer Food Pyramid
Lisa De Pasquale The Freeman
Selfie Culture Lacks Self-Awareness
Noel Yaxley Chronicles


Friday, February 6
The Fallout From This Super Bowl Could Change Everything
Nora Princiotti Ringer
Sundance Is a Feast of World Cinema
Richard Brody The New Yorker
The Great Ticket Crisis
Tom Lamont GQ
How to Love a Monster
Myles Werntz The Metropolitan Review
Model City
Mark Hemingway RealClearInvestigations
Misaimed Kindnesses and Cruelties
Lily Felsenthal Los Angeles Review of Books
The Offensive Line
Ken Belson Air Mail
Conjectures
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
How DoorDash Gets You
Sascha Seinfeld The Free Press
Dark Clouds at the Met, Boston’s MFA
Brian T. Allen National Review
Why Literature Needs a Punk Rock Mindset
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
'Send Help' and Sam Raimi’s Genre Movie Joy
Eileen Jones Jacobin
The Sad and Sterile World of Tinder
Alexander Riley Chronicles
Super Bowl Tickets Are Cheaper But Everyday Life Isn’t
Peter C. Earle Daily Economy
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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