RealClearBooks Week of April 13, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 13
Mad About the Mandolin
Tim Parks The New Yorker
Fernando Mendoza is About To Be the Top Pick
Ryan D'Agostino Esquire
The Ungraspable Oz
Henry Begler The Metropolitan Review
An Interview With Helen Schulman
Sam Kahn The Republic of Letters
Life in a Literary Democracy
Ross Barkan Political Currents
What Do We Do About Jaden Ivey?
Matthew Roberson GQ
Expel All The Tech From Schools, Not Just Phones
Daniel Oppenheimer Substack
Artemis Shows Another Tech Is Possible
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack
What Playboy Got Right About Men
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The Paranoid Prophet of Loserdom
Marc Weitzmann Tablet
How to Avoid Taxes Forever
Ron Charles Substack
#96: Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham Health Gossip
My Fear (& Hope) for Gen Z Converts
Stephen G. Adubato Cracks in Postmodernity
A Simulation of Worship
Maddie Rubin Los Angeles Review of Books
The Man Who Read Everything
Henry Oliver The Common Reader
Humanity Lost in Space
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
Dusty Baker Pours Out His Soul
Bob Nightengale USA Today
National Library Week Will Soon Be Here
Melanie Anagnos Cherchez La Femme
On 'The Palm House'
Zack Hatfield 4Columns
Cult Following for Provocative San Francisco Novel Soars
Amanda Bartlett SFGate
What the Hell Happened to Wendy’s?
Adam Chandler Slate
Guests of the Nation
Christopher J. Scalia Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, April 14
Rory McIlroy Does It the Hard Way (Again)
Elizabeth Nelson The Ringer
How Jomboy Is Changing the Way Baseball Is Watched
Louisa Thomas New Yorker
Gifts From Forgetfulness
Ben Libman Poetry Foundation
The Myth of the Independent Girlboss
Inez Stepman First Things
Bob Dylan’s Mysterious AI Experiment
Ian Grant GQ
Charles Melton In Charge
Lauren Larson Men's Health
On Norman Maclean’s 'A River Runs Through It'
James K. Chandler LitHub
Ben Lerner Hears Ghosts in the Wires
Jonah Walters Jacobin
Who Gets Guggenheims?
Dominique J. Baker & Christopher T. Bennett Public Books
Lena Dunham Tells All Like Never Before
Alex Ross People
Why We Abandon Books
Christine Norvell Front Porch Republic
Gazing Back at Narcissus
George Dardess Slant Books
The Fascism of the Heart
Greg Cwik Los Angeles Review of Books
The China Threat
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
They Spiked the Story
Mark Judge Hot Air
Chinese Communism’s Monstrous Mindset
J. Peder Zane & James Varney RCI
Beyond the Sky
Dom Cooke Colossus
Ghostwriter in a Hurry
Nic Rowan The American Conservative


Wednesday, April 15
What Zendaya Leaves Unsaid
Doreen St. Félix The New Yorker
The Fanfare Around Geese Actually Was a Psyop
John Semley Wired
The Great Schizo-Autist War
Justin Murphy UnHerd
Wisconsin Death Trip Revisited
Meaghan Garvey County Highway
Can We Have a Party?
Madeleine Adams The Metropolitan Review
Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld​
Mitch Therieau The Drift
What Happens to Unwitnessed Love?
Marissa Lorusso Dirt
A Whole Civilization
Joshua T. Katz The New Criterion
Natural Medicine
Emmett Rensin Liberties
How the Influencer Economy Ruined Childhood
Evie Solheim American Conservative
The New (and Worse) Bridget Joneses
Elizabeth Grace Matthew The Dispatch
Finding a Way In
Ryan Lackey Cleveland Review of Books
Is America Good Enough for Wendell Berry?
Brian A. Smith Civitas Outlook
The Whitney Review Is More Than Just Whitney
Marley Wendt i-D
The Books Publishing Won’t Push Are Finding An Audience
David Hines Daily Wire
I Guess Ron DeSantis Is Guy Fieri Now
Luke Winkie Slate
Fukuyama on Trust
Frank Filocomo The Frank Forum
Is AI the Greatest Art Heist in History?
Molly Crabapple The Guardian
O Homer, Where Art Thou?
Nadya Williams Providence
Woman on the Verge of Losing Control
Ron Charles Substack
Boys to Men: Ushering Boys into Manhood
Mark Perkins Institute for Family Studies
The Phantom Base
Jacob Siegel City Journal


Thursday, April 16
TMZ Gets Political
Paula Mejia The New Yorker
Aryna Sabalenka Is Trying to Mellow Out
Michael Sebastian Esquire
What Should Smart People Think About UFOs?
Will Rahn The Free Press
Gay Talese on a Writer’s Life
Charles McElwee RealClearPolitics
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Caity Weaver The Atlantic
Tree of Life
Judson Vail The Oxford American
Bad Noise: The Art of the Walk-Up Song
Matthew Ritchie POW Magazine
Redshift
Elena Saavedra Buckley Harper's
The Good, the Awful, the Non-Art
Brian T. Allen The National Review
On Hachette's Internal Use of AI
Mesha Maren Zona Motel
Iris Murdoch & the Metaphysics of the Good
Matthew B. Crawford Hedghehog Review
Sam Altman Is the Leading Man in This AI-Anxious World
Lily Isaacs The Observer
Humor Is a Practice: An Interview with Chris Duffy
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Snoopy Memes
Ben Firke Dirt
Touch Me Not
JLG Noga Romanticon
The Work of Post-Literate Religious Revivals
Oliver Bateman Substack
Welcome to Online Censorship 2.0
John Rosenthal The American Mind
The Incels Are Taking Over
Seva Gunitsky Persuasion
The Era of the Bookish Influencer
Markiel Magsalin Vogue


Friday, April 17
A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
The 42 Best WrestleMania Matches of All Time
Phil Schneider The Ringer
Defying Decline
James Piereson The New Criterion
Cherish Your Memorized Weakness
John Semley The Baffler
Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for Girls Like Us
Anna Dorn POW Magazine
Back to the Dumb Phone
Anthony Marigold Magazine Non Grata
AI Alignment Is Impossible
Matt Lutz Persuasion
Seeing Like a Worm
Henry M. Cowles Los Angeles Review of Books
Is Hollywood Done with Wokeness?
Jack Hunter Modern Age
Will Cinema Get Brave Again?
Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review
Why Contemporary Artists Worship Tech
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
On Katie Kitamura’s “Audition”
Nirris Nagendrarajah Cleveland Review of Books
Why People Hate Lena Dunham
Freddie deBoer Substack
Carey Mulligan on Going Ballistic in ‘Beef’
Seija Rankin The Hollywood Reporter
Civility: The Invisible Glue of Society
Barry Brownstein The Daily Economy
The Pitt's Noah Wyle on Surviving Another Shift
Frazier Tharpe GQ
Socialization in Alternative Schools
Kelsy Achtenberg The Freeman
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Kanye or Nay? by Compact
Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley
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