RealClearBooks Week of May 4, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 4
Are Disney Adults the Happiest Debtors on Earth?
Amelia Tait The New Yorker
The Devil Wears Sponcon
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Classroom Cope
Anastasia Berg The Point’s Substack
The Try-Hard Sequel Millennials Deserve
Annie Berke The New Republic
The Corporate Thriller Lied to Us
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Elon Musk’s Plan to Save Humanity
James Kingston UnHerd
When the Confederacy Came to LA
Harmony Holiday The Paris Review
The Wrong Kind of Black Poet
Ernest Jesuyemi Compact
A Conflict of AI Visions
Sanjana Friedman City Journal
The Danger of the Literary Lament
Ross Barkan Political Currents
'The Devil Wears' Prada Is a Broken Promise
Louis Staples Harper's Bazaar
Girls Are in Crisis. Alarmism Won’t Help.
Katherine Dee The Dispatch
'Yesteryear' Fails on Its Own Terms
Jerusalem Demsas & Maibritt Henkel The Argument
On Paul Klee
Reinaldo Laddaga 4Columns
About Lana
Audrey Horne Substack
There's More To Life Than Books
Matthew Morgan The Republic of Letters
Remembering Andrew Breitbart
Brian T. Kennedy Chronicles
From Codfish Cakes to Cap’n Crunch
Bonnie S. Benwick Washington Free Beacon
Sean Fennessey On Spielberg, Simmons, and Music Writing
Frazier Tharpe GQ
The Digital Media Era Is Definitively Dead
Harry Cheadle Substack


Tuesday, May 5
Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker
The Voice That Revealed a Planet
Danny Chau The Ringer
Against Decluttering
Sharla Moody Plough
Justin Bieber At the End of the World
Jeff Weiss POW Magazine
What Would the Olympics Be Like If the Athletes Could Juice?
Chris Gayomali GQ
The 18 Best Books of 2026 (So Far)
Adam Morgan Esquire
What It’s Like To Marry Into A Reality TV Family
Jordan Schroeder Daily Wire
A Working-Class Literature Primer
Charles Dodd White The Republic of Letters
The Horrors of Food Shopping
Evelyn Quartz Cracks in Postmodernity
Ray Bradbury, American Individualist
Bradley J. Birzer Modern Age
‘Lord of the Flies’ Review
Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter
The Last Rationalist
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
Dems’ Israel Purity Test
James Billot UnHerd
How Poetry Helps Navigate Politics
J.C. Scharl Acton Institute
Spreading the Good Word
Kevin Fenton The American Scholar
The Lost Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe
Mark Judge Chronicles
Netflix’s 'Lord of the Flies' Is a Must-See Adaptation
Judy Berman Time
My Weekend at MAHA's Exclusive Farming Retreat
Hunter Ryerson Pirate Wires


Wednesday, May 6
LeBron James Isn’t a Spaceship. He’s a Time Machine.
Danny Chau The Ringer
The 2026 Met Gala: Bezoses, Beyoncé, and Blood
Rachel Syme The New Yorker
The Inversion of ‘Animal Farm’
Nicholas Clairmont The Free Press
Redeeming Harold Bloom
Blake Bailey UnHerd
Charles Dickens... and Other Bad Men Who are Good Writers
Francine Prose LitHub
If You Love Reading, Skip Grad School
Eric Jager Compact
Work Won't Love You Back
Greta Rainbow Filmmaker Magazine
The Ethiopian Running Secret
Michael Crawley & Geoff Burns Aeon
Faith-Based Investing and Impact
Jim Sorenson & Terrence Keeley ImpactAlpha
There’s an Independent Bookstore Revival
Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation
Elizabeth Strout’s Portrait of a Good Man in Quiet Crisis
Ron Charles Substack
The Wembanyama Energy Problem
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
AI Romance and Existential Despair
Joseph Figliolia City Journal
'Michael' Is Not Rooted in Reality
Eileen Jones Jacobin
From DOJ to Ballot Box: The Rise of Lawfare Candidates
Julie Kelly RCInvestigations
The New ‘Animal Farm’ Should’ve Worked Harder
John J. Miller WSJ Free Expression
MEMRI Catalogues Bizarre Collaboration
RCP Video RealClearPolitics
Sitting Apart
Sasha Razor Los Angeles Review of Books


Thursday, May 7
Muriel Spark, the Double Agent
Audrey Wollen The New Yorker
Could Claude Mythos Actually Destroy the Internet?
Brian Phillips The Ringer
Inside The Diamond Game
Harry Khachatrian The Daily Wire
Arguing with the NYT's Songwriter List
Sam Jennings Vita Contemplativa
Generational Recurse
Brianna Di Monda The Baffler
The Uncomfortable Lightness of Dark Academia
Roxanne Panchasi Public Books
Shooting the Suns
Nicholas Bequelin The Ideas Letter
Ted Turner’s Mark on Atlanta Lived On
Rick Rojas New York Times
The New Terrorists
Katherine Dee Tablet
Lena Dunham Is Still Adulting
Emma Camp WSJ Free Expression
Is Living in Middle America Odd?
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative
The Use and Abuse of Joan Didion
Henry Reichman Hedgehog Review
Keats in Technicolor
Matthew Gasda Romanticon
Fame! A Misunderstanding
Matthew Lamb Los Angeles Review of Books
In the Reckless Hour
Barry Schwabsky The Point
Dickens Doubled
Joel J. Miller The Republic of Letters
A Locksmith’s Love
Nadya Williams Front Porch Republic
Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Districting
James Piereson New Criterion
Spring Jazz Roundup
Chris Robinson POW Magazine
EAST VILLAGE, NYC (1984) “Art Parties”
Blake Nelson Travels to Distant Cities
Are You There Grok? It's Me, Margaret
Jerusalem Demsas The Argument
The Bromance of Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul
Sirena He Esquire
The Profoundly Weird Race for Rookie of the Year
Nate Silver Silver Bulletin
MAGA Isn’t Finished. It’s Just Getting Started
Roger Kimball The Spectator


Friday, May 8
A Hundred Years of David Attenborough
Anthony Lane The New Yorker
13 WNBA Predictions We Actually Believe for 2026
Seerat Sohi The Ringer
Who Is Thinking?
T.M. Luhrmann The American Scholar
'Tony' Gives Anthony Bourdain the Anti-Biopic Treatment
Alex Pappademas GQ
Met Gala-Goers Pick Classic Looks
Brian T. Allen National Review
Robert Coover at Bat
John Semley The Nation
Gwendoline Riley Takes on the Puzzle of Aging
Cora Currier The New Republic
'The Devil Wears Prada 2' Hits the Right Bleak Notes
Eileen Jones Jacobin
The Post-Trauma Plot Book Is Here
Gideon Leek Vulture
Up Close and Personal with ‘the Best Tailor in the Country’
Caroline Reilly Esquire
The 2026 James Beard Awards
Bettina Makalintal Eater
Teddy Roosevelt’s Expansive Spirit
Emina Melonic Civitas Outlook
The Case for Spencer Pratt
Adeline Dimond Pirate Wires
Colleges, Maybe Try Teaching!
William Deresiewicz Persuasion
Baseball's Mystic Chords of Memory
Michael Auslin Law & Liberty
A Commencement Address
Dave Barry Substack
The Book That Made Orwell
John P. Rossi Modern Age
Topical Malady
Emily Rose Apter The Baffler
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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