RealClearBooks Week of April 20, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 20
Justin Bieber Rises Again at Coachella
Vinson Cunningham The New Yorker
A Deep Dive Into the Sam Altman–vs.–Elon Musk Trial
Katie Baker The Ringer
The Real Reason Gen Z Yearns for Vinyl
Bellamy Richardson Esquire
Larry McMurtry’s Tall Tales
Gus O’Connor The Nation
Into the Woods
Kara Kennedy Washington Free Beacon
My Struggle (to Publication)
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Clavicular: The digital Dorian Gray
Cosmo Adair UnHerd
Lena Dunham Reveals All
Emma Brockes Air Mail
"Colossus" is Barkan's Best Novel Yet
Alexander Sorondo Substack
Tone Is Not a Virtue
Heather R. Higgins RealClearPolicy
Publishing Has an AI Problem
Alexander Larman The Critic
Justin Bieber (Adonis)
Sean Thor Conroe Cracks in Postmodernity
The Marijuana Backlash Is Here
Kevin Sabet Compact
Who Is Blake Whiting?
Andrew Lawler The American Scholar
Wall or Sieve?
Benjamin Weingarten RealClearInvestigations
The Invention of the Soul
Nicholas Humphrey Aeon
A Film That Reminds Us Who We Are
John Zmirak Chronicles
'Outcome' Is Jonah Hill’s Inept Hollywood Satire
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Who's Pulling the Strings?
Madeline Summerville Maddie’s Hot Take


Tuesday, April 21
Our Longing for Inconvenience
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
Who Killed the Florida Orange?
Alexander Sammon Slate
Alone Together
Sam Adler-Bell The Drift
Could ‘A River Runs Through It’ Have Been a Hit Today?
Monte Burke NYTimes
My Father, the Midcentury Man
Mychal Denzel Smith The New Republic
Bad Bets
Jude Russo Commonplace
The New American Steakhouse
Bettina Makalintal Eater
The Work of No Future
Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work
The Playboy Interview: Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson The Playboy Reader
“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get?
Ryan Carroll Public Books
A New Wild West in Jackson, Louisiana
James Taylor Foreman The Dispatch
How Much Privacy Do You Expect?
Naomi Brockwell The Freeman
The Return of the Townhouse
Brad Hargreaves City Journal
The Importance of Bill James
Sam Kahn Castalia
A Justice in Full
Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty
A Lost Art
Diane Scharper Washington Examiner
Andy Weir’s Optimistic Vision in ‘Project Hail Mary’
Iona Italia Quillette
The Dark Heart of the Kidfluencer Industry
Ella Dorn The New Statesman


Wednesday, April 22
Louisiana’s Exquisite Indigenous Sausage Makeover
Ken Wells RealClearBooks
The Director Who’s Taking On Michael Jackson
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
Why I Co-Authored a Book with ChatGPT
Jamie Metzl The Free Press
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Jon Greenaway Current Affairs
The Father Behind the Fiction
Rand Richards Cooper Arc
Do Liberals Want a Beautiful World?
Multiple authors The Point’s Substack
Philip Rieff and the Unmooring of Modernity
Jacob Payne Voegelin View
Lena Dunham Checked Out of the Hype Machine
Delia Cai Cultured
I Used to Be a Hollywood Writer
Nick Morton The Hollywood Reporter
Helen DeWitt Is the Psycho We Need
Jerusalem Demsas The Argument
Anthony Bourdain Will Never Die
Faith Bottum WSJ Free Expression
The Dating Reality Check
Elizabeth Grace Matthew The Daily Wire
I Fear LA
Emma Burger The Metropolitan Review
The One-Night Stand That Ruins Everything
Ron Charles Substack
TV News Goes Crazy for Creators
Brian Steinberg Variety
Directing the Herd
Edward Ongweso Jr The Drift
We’ve All Stopped Dreaming
Leland de la Durantaye Los Angeles Review of Books
My Life As An Energy Drink Guy
Matthew Roberson GQ
Why Millennials Are Feral for Chicken Caesar Wraps
Alex Abad-Santos Vox
Lena Dunham’s Girls Girls
Faye Curran The New Statesman
Our Technofounder Future
Titus Techera Acton Institute


Thursday, April 23
Israel’s Legitimacy Isn’t Debatable Under International Law
Roy K. Altman RCBooks
What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
Jessica Winter The New Yorker
Guitar Hero: An Interview With Marc Ribot
Leonard Benardo The Ideas Letter
Little Magazines Are Back
Barton Swaim WSJ Free Expression
Ideas of Slavery
Scott Spillman The Point
It’s Okay to Like Geese
Jarek Paul Ervin Jacobin
Fiction Creep
Helena Aeberli Los Angeles Review of Books
How to Save the Planet Without Screwing Over Poor People
Quico Toro Persuasion
Discovering Raimundo de Madrazo
Brian T. Allen National Review
Ben Lerner Has Taken Autofiction Somewhere New
Mark Greif The New Statesman
Drowning Out the Noise
Andrew Marzoni The Nation
Meet the Neon King of New Orleans
Jenny Adams Garden & Gun
The Rolling Stones Are Rock’s Greatest Band
Marc Ballon Los Angeles Times
Why Read 'Why Teach?'
John Julius Reel The Republic of Letters
‘Infinite Jest,’ the Internet, and the Politics of Reading
Melanie Walsh LARB
Double Visions of Blues and Bard
Noah Millman Modern Age
Keanu Reeves Movies, Ranked
Iana Murray GQ
David Byrne Is Joyful, and the Left Can’t Stand It
Mark Judge Chronicles
Book Review: Sophie Mackintosh, ‘Permanence’
Sam Franzini Our Culture
Palantir’s Next Conquest: The Tennis Court
Daysia Tolentino GQ
The 'Beef' Creator Is Locked in a Cycle of Greatness
Brady Langmann Esquire


Friday, April 24
The Winners & Losers of the First Round of the 2026 NFL Draft
Steven Ruiz Ringer
A Wunderkind’s Best-Selling Nostalgia
Becca Rothfeld The New Yorker
Throwing the Book at Librarians
Jonah Goldberg The Dispatch
Belief Is the Answer
Christopher Beha Washington Post
'DTF St Louis' Is an Original Drama of Male Loneliness
Phillip Maciak New Republic
A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist Portraying the Artist
Adrian Nathan West Baffler
In the Air Tonight
Jacob Bielecki Quillette
Mediations in an Emergency
Brandon Taylor Bookforum
An Interview With Jacob Siegel
Sam Kahn The Republic of Letters
Move the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to Memphis
Howard Husock WSJ Free Expression
Weekend Warriors
Rosalie Metro The American Scholar
Why Humans Aren’t Clever Chimps
Ronald W. Dworkin Civitas Outlook
Cerfin' U.S.A.
Ben Sims The Metropolitan Review
What’s Wrong with Civic Education?
David Lewis Schaefer Modern Age
When Democrats Engaged in ‘Mortal Kombat’
Noel Yaxley Chronicles
The Conflicted Origins of Sociology
Alec Gewirtz The Nation
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Why Can't We Make Pretty Buildings Anymore? by The Everyman
Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley
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