RealClearBooks Week of April 27, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 27
With A.I., Anyone Can Be an Influencer
T.M. Brown The New Yorker
‘Michael’ Is a Vain Account of the Man in the Mirror
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Sexual Revolution Was Always a Failure
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
American Pastor
Kazuo Robinson Substack
Strange but True Crime
Robert Little Washington Free Beacon
Where Bob Dylan Met the Beatles
Jim Windolf Air Mail
Pockets of Peace in Dallas, Texas
Victoria Holmes The Dispatch
Wolfgang Koeppen—“Poet of Failure”
Pankaj Mishra The Nation
David Lee Roth - Live @ Spirit Mountain Casino (2026)
Blake Nelson Substack
The Barbarism of Yesteryear
Jonathan Russell Clark The Metropolitan Review
A Nice Little Office
Stephen Akey The Republic of Letters
Palantir’s Cynical Ideology
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack
The Crack-Up (2026)
Leigh Stein Attention Economy
On Sobriety
Sam Kahn Castalia
Inside Lena Dunham’s Substack Press Tour
Arielle Swedback On Substack
Playing Cops
Amalia Wompa RealClearInvestigations
Good News
Gary Abernathy RealClearEnergy
The Social Edge of Intelligence
Bright Simons The Ideas Letter
Our Idiocratic Moment
David Polansky Strange Frequencies
The Left ‘Lost’ on DEI
John Tillman RealClearPolicy
The Anti-Communist Film Festival
Mark Judge Victims of Communism


Tuesday, April 28
Has Steve Kerr Had Enough?
Charles Bethea The New Yorker
Yes, 'Michael' Really Ends Like That
Derek Lawrence GQ
The Meaning of a Book Launch
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Gwendoline Riley’s Phantom Lives
Robert Rubsam Defector
The Limits of the American Religion
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
Cole Tomas Allen Is a Postmodern Symptom
Sohrab Ahmari UnHerd
The Kanye West Album 'Bully' Does Not Exist
Paul Thompson POW Magazine
Songs of Himself
Anthony Giardina Commonweal
The Generation That Got Stuck in Lockdown
Jess Bergman The New Republic
When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled
Daniel Goodman Plough
Prepping for the President
Tevi Troy Washington Free Beacon
Who Is God in the Declaration?
Matthew Spalding Modern Age
Does Reading Do Us Any Good?
Flora Champy Aeon
Has Lena Dunham Changed? Have We?
Constance Grady Vox
The AI Filmmaker Outrunning Hollywood
Ryan Hassan Pirate Wires
A Better Novel, a Sharper Satire
Ian Smith The American Mind
The Left Needs a Better Class of Elite
Harry Cheadle Substack
Mobocracy in America
Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty
America is the New Rome
Joel Kotkin Spiked
The Shape of a Nation’s Diet
Alyse Burnside Dirt
Escape Artist
James Panero The New Criterion


Wednesday, April 29
Attention Must Be Paid
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
The Rise of the ‘Adderall Novel’
Maddie Connors Los Angeles Times
Shades of Color in Philipsburg
Lawson Chapman The Dispatch
The People’s Critic
Joseph Horowitz The American Scholar
Remote Districts
Greta Rainbow Dirt
On Ben Lerner’s “Transcription”
Amelia Anthony Cleveland Review of Books
The Sense of a Friendship
Sherman Alexie Substack
This Land Belongs to All of Us
Raina Lipsitz The Metropolitan Review
Shooting and Crying
Anastasia Berg The Point’s Substack
Irrevocable Brilliance
Zane Perdue The Republic of Letters
The Power of Fit
Tom Williams Los Angeles Review of Books
All Changed, Changed Utterly
Henry Begler A Good Hard Stare
Tom Perrotta and the Summer That Broke a Boy
Ron Charles Substack
Against the Screen-Time Panic
Leila Mechoui Compact
The Real Clear Energy Future Forum 2026 Preview
Maggie Miller RCInvestigations
The Dostoevskian Moment
James Poulos Palladium
Meindert De Jong’s Classic Tale
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
Neglected Books
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
Inside the New York City 'Famesick' Party
Sophia June Language Arts
On Getting Jacked
Jonah Howell Cracks in Postmodernity


Thursday, April 30
Elon Musk Takes the Stand for … Uh, Humanity?
Katie Baker The Ringer
Trinidad Chambliss Is Making Millions Playing in College
Bomani Jones Vanity Fair
T-Swizzle, Capitalist Titan
Dominic Green The Free Press
The Music For Our Head
Jameson Draper POW Magazine
A Conversation With Mark Helprin, America’s Greatest Writer
Tim Rice Daily Wire
Our Heads Are Just Houses
Multiple authors The Dispatch
Never Apologize for Having Taste
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Walk in Benjamin Harrison’s Footsteps
Brian T. Allen National Review
John Cougar Mellencamp Will Fight You
Erin Osmon LitHub
Red Noir
Harilaos Stecopoulos The Baffler
On Ross Barkan’s New Novel 'Colossus'
Denise S. Robbins Chicago Review of Books
I Like That Cameron Winter Dresses Bad
Sophie Kemp GQ
An Afternoon with Randi Weingarten
Nic Rowan City Journal
Nelio Biedermann Became a Bestselling Novelist at 22
Lily Isaacs The Observer
Art, Beauty, and the Need to Make it New
Gregory Wolfe Church Life Journal
Is AI the Next Phase of Evolution?
Richard Dawkins UnHerd
The Stuff I Put on My Desk So I Don’t Quit
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Olivia Rodrigo Rises
Madison Hu Cosmopolitan
'Yesteryear' Has Everyone Talking—Does It Deliver?
Kaitlyn Greenidge Harper's Bazaar


Friday, May 1
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Lauren Collins The New Yorker
Higher Education’s Problems Go Way Beyond Trust
Lex Pryor The Ringer
Bruce the Builder
Mike Pesca The Dispatch
In Defense of the Pickup Artist
Magdalene J. Taylor The Playboy Reader
Art and War with a Master Storyteller
John J. Waters RealClearDefense
Why Right-Wing Influencers Are Praising Islam
Matthew Schmitz Washington Post
Standing On Business
Emma Collins A New Heaven
The Culture We Deserve
Janna Shaftan The Baffler
What Literature Did Agents Build?
Laura B. McGrath Public Books
Why ChatGPT Is Obsessed With Goblins
Katherine Dee Pirate Wires
Gina Carano’s Long Way Back
Seth Abramovitch The Hollywood Reporter
How Many Working-Class Writers Have You Read?
Julia Madsen Republic of Letters
In Defense of Umpires
Jonathan Shapiro WSJ Free Expression
High and Dry
Harry Stecopoulos Los Angeles Review of Books
Shadi Hamid's Excellent "The Case for American Power"
John Tamny RCMarkets
The Corporeal Internet Novel
ARX-Han The Metropolitan Review
The Rewriting of Campus History
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Esther Kinsky’s Celluloid Dreams
Walker Rutter-Bowman The Nation
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Pre-Industrial Life Was Worse by City Journal
Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan
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