RealClearBooks Week of March 9, 2026 Archives

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Monday, March 9
The Captivating Derangement of Looksmaxxing
Becca Rothfeld The New Yorker
God Forbid ‘The Bride!’ Get a Little Motion
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Artist vs. Audience
Kat Rosenfield The Freeman
When Craft Was Enough
Joshua Doležal The Republic of Letters
Now Congress Is Coming for the Books
Ron Charles Substack
The Cinema of Societal Collapse
Vikram Murthi The Nation
The Passion of Will Self
George Monaghan The New Statesman
Whoa, Gen Z Guys, Are You Okay?
Bryn Gelbart Esquire
In Praise of Toni Morrison’s Difficulty
Edna Bonhomme The New Republic
Old Persian Calligraphy Survives
Brian T. Allen National Review
Here Comes the Substack Book
Alys Key Substack
The Incel's Veto and Other Observations
Freddie deBoer Substack
An American Prophet of the Natural World
John Kaag The American Scholar
History and the Gigantic Ginger Cat
Christopher J. Scalia Law & Liberty
The Darkness from the Darkness
William Giraldi The Baffler
Highway 61 Contains Multitudes
Jones Hogsed Romanticon
A Third Way for the Humanities
Editorial Board The Hinternet
This Emperor Had Clothes
Joseph Epstein The Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, March 10
'Hoppers' Is a Happy Leap Forward for Pixar
Justin Chang The New Yorker
A Face You Have to Click On
Nate Rogers The Ringer
You Don’t Have to Use AI
Becca Rothfeld Substack
The Best Oscar Best Picture Winners of All Time
Jesse Hassenger GQ
The Short Century
Daniel Bessner The Nation
America’s Cinematic Salvation
Robert Rubsam Liberties
Tyrant Style
Thomas Morton The Paris Review
Harry Styles: Loneliest Man in the World
Sarah Ditum UnHerd
Your Brain on AI
Spencer Klavan The New Jerusalem
What Has Gone Wrong With Fiction in Our Era?
Sam Kahn Castalia
Zeroing Out
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
Consoling
Owen Hatherley New Left Review
Coaches Against Trump
James Piereson The New Criterion
How Gambling Ate the World
Jacob Bacharach The New Republic
Cancel Culture Comes to Trumpland
Judith Miller & Paul du Quenoy RealClearPolitics
Who Is Harry Styles, Anyway? Even He's Not Sure.
Rich Juzwiak Esquire
A Crown of Stone and Gold
Charlton Allen RealClearReligion
‘The Bride!’ Is the Latest Example of Feminist Horror
Kennedy French Variety


Wednesday, March 11
Love in the Time of A.I. Companions
Anna Wiener The New Yorker
The Long History of Paul Thomas Anderson Getting Snubbed
Kyle Wilson Ringer
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Monster Mash
Greta Rainbow Filmmaker Magazine
Changing the Conversation on AI Literacy
Emmarae R. Stein Cracks in Postmodernity
A House of Jazz
Dominic Green Portico
Say It with Me Now: Open Marriages Never Work
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Processing: How Andrew Martin Wrote Down Time
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
It’s About to Be Hot Peptide Summer
Dean Stattmann GQ
Our Culture’s Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2026
Sam Franzini Our Culture
All in the Family Complex
Ron Charles Substack
Was 2025 Hollywood’s Turning Point?
Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review
On Fanny Howe’s “Holy Smoke”
Caroline Reagan Cleveland Review of Books
The Song of Angry Men
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
Elliptical Selfhood
Tess Pollok Los Angeles Review of Books
Will Johnny Ever Learn To Read?
Vince Bielski RealClearInvestigations
“Antisemitism” in Cognitive Warfare
Juliana Geran Pilon Civitas Outlook
Bad for People, Great for Fiction
Rebecca Panovka The Drift
On 'Infinite Jest' and the Myth of the Lit-Bro
John Gu Substack
'Sinners' Offers a False Vision of Empowerment
Touré F. Reed Current Affairs


Thursday, March 12
Pop-Culture Populism and Hollywood’s Sequel Problem
Yaniv Regev RealClearBooks
The Bam Game
Danny Chau The Ringer
Self’s the Man
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
Why I Can't Read Like I Used To
Alex De Lagarde Magazine Non Grata
Why Millennial Men Missed Out on Kids
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
Bam Adebayo's 83 is Hated and That's Good
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Why Can’t Conservatives Create Art?
Dave Greene First Things
The National Portrait Gallery’s Weak Curatorial Vision
Brian T. Allen National Review
The Oscars: Who Will Win and Who Should Win
Justin Chang The New Yorker
How Sports Journalism Lurched Leftward
Steven Malanga City Journal
Matt Yglesias Drove Me to Post About AI
Nate West Substack
Mark Twain’s Absurd, Noble America
Ivan Kenneally The Hedgehog Review
On Emerald Fennell's 'Wuthering Heights'
Georgie Carr Another Gaze
Charles Bukowski and the Passing of Blue-Collar Lit
Noel Yaxley Chronicles
Marketing the Liberal Arts
Daniel Oppenheimer Extra Credit
Alexa, Stop Recording Me
Josh Code The Free Press
Drive Me Mad!: On 'Wuthering Heights'
Rafaela Bassili MUBI
Kylie Supreme!
Nate Freeman Vanity Fair
All the Night Custodians
Mike Obee The Republic of Letters


Friday, March 13
In Space, No One Should Hear Your Glib Jokes
Justin Chang The New Yorker
The Hornets Are Buzzing—and the NBA Can’t Stop Them
Michael Pina The Ringer
The Mind Behind Megalopolis
Jude Russo Modern Age
Did China Just Smoke Hollywood?
Ryan Hassan & Evan Milenko Pirate Wires
In Defense of Chalamet-ism
Ryan Zickgraf UnHerd
The Time Will Pass Anyway
Henry Begler A Good Hard Stare
Bolaño’s Heresy: On 'Distant Star'
Ben Lerner The Paris Review
The Men of 'Ted' Throw Away the Talking Point(s)
Ryan D'Agostino Esquire
God Is in the Algorithm
Daniel Falatko The Metropolitan Review
We Asked a Man What He Finds Funny
Sophia June Language Arts
The Academy Missed Some Of 2025’s Best Film Scores
Robert Rubsam Defector
The Movies Against MeToo
Alec Mouhibian Compact
The Other Semiquincentennial
Allen Mendenhall The Freeman
The Grey Zone
Ben Weingarten RealClearInvestigations
The Oscars
Dave Barry Substack
Podcast: Who We Are by City Journal
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley
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