RealClearBooks Week of May 18, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 18
The Fastball Has Never Been Faster
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
The Indies Are Dying. Long Live the Indies
Scott Roxborough The Hollywood Reporter
The 100 Best Novels of All Time
Multiple authors The Guardian
An Interview with Meaghan Garvey
Paul Thompson POW Magazine
He Lost It at the Movies
Leo Robson The Ideas Letter
Learning to Love Growth
Addison Del Mastro The Freeman
Hollywood Invented the Girlboss
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Devils Don't Always Wear Prada
Elizabeth Grace Matthew Law & Liberty
The Best Appalachian Novels Ever Written
Charles Dodd White The Essay Desk
Don't Waste Your Crazy
Emma Newman-Holden The Republic of Letters
Puppy Love
Leighton Woodhouse RealClearInvestigations
The Battle of the Genres
Sam Kahn Castalia
What I Told Students At the College of William & Mary
Francis Fukuyama Persuasion
A Whole New World
Madeleine Adams The Baffler
Empire Still Standing
Benjamin M. Osborne Chronicles
'Widow’s Bay' Is a Menacing and Hilarious Mash-up
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
The Hottest Musician in 2026 Is Michael Jackson
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Left to Their Own Devices
Ian Haworth Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, May 19
Daryl Morey Was Always Going to Go Down Swinging
Howard Beck The Ringer
The Day the Music Critic Died
Sam Jennings UnHerd
The Philosopher Who Foresaw AI
Christopher Hoffman Cracks in Postmodernity
The Literary Agent’s Invisible Hand
Rosa Lyster The Paris Review
Beneath the Paving Stones, the River
Alex Tan The Baffler
Writing in Exile
Katherine Kelaidis LitHub
Reports of The Death of 'Woke' May Be Greatly Exaggerated
Pamela Paresky RCEd
Sincerity Run Amok
Tanner Stening The Metropolitan Review
Sex and the City
David L. Ulin Alta
Why AI Is a Train, Not a Bicycle
Tim Requarth Persuasion
Be Quiet
G.B. Rango Pirate Wires
Murky Effects
Isabella Gullifer-Laurie Los Angeles Review of Books
Make America Literate Again
Harry Crocker RealClearHistory
A Tradwife’s Quiet Discontent
Annie Berke The New Republic
Let Sleeping Actors Lie
Garrett Fish New Guard Press
Defending American Exceptionalism
RCP Video RealClearPolitics
Stopping Dogs from Becoming Lab Rats
J. Peder Zane & James Varney RCInvestigations
On 'The American Book Of Fables'
Joy Pullmann The Federalist


Wednesday, May 20
The Majestic Arrival of Playoff Wemby
Danny Chau The Ringer
Iceman Is Drake’s Best Album in 10 Years
Frazier Tharpe GQ
The Work of AI Winning Literary Prizes
Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work
Did AI Write This Prizewinning Story?
Novi Zhukovsky The Free Press
‘Suicidal Empathy’ Is Fake Science
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
A Brief Tribute to New Orleans Music
Nathan J. Robinson Current Affairs
Christopher Nolan’s Critical Odyssey
Dominic Green WSJ Free Expression
The Last of David Bowie
Robert Dean Lurie Modern Age
Pocket Symphonies
Sam Jennings The Hinternet
Fear and Loathing in Palo Alto
Alex Bronzini-Vender Washington Monthly
The Crimes Georges Simenon Declined to Investigate
Scott Bradfield New Republic
Michel Houellebecq and The EPR Paradox
Sam Buntz The Muted Trumpet
The Mothers Looksmaxxing Their Babies
Lily Isaacs Dispatch Media
The Way the Wind Blows
Michael Kazin The Point Magazine
Did a Nobel Laureate Misread Adam Smith?
Paul Mueller The Daily Economy
Magnetic Fields
Marko Gluhaich Kismet
About That Guardian List of 100 Best Novels
John Warner Substack
A Zone of Indistinction
Cory Oldweiler Southwest Review
Christianity and the Founders' Liberalism
Alexander William Salter Law & Liberty
On Taste, Art, AI & a Clever Viral Social Experiment
Spencer Klavan New Jerusalem
Léa Seydoux Transforms
Daniel D'Addario Variety


Thursday, May 21
Drake Would Like to Settle the Score
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
What Has Happened to Taste?
Tiffany Ng Esquire
The Battle of the Baked Goods
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Straight Man
Adam Fleming Petty The Metropolitan Review
The Erotic Life of a True-Crime Junkie
Ron Charles Substack
How I Learned to Read Again
Sam Kahn Magazine Non Grata
Invasion of the Literary Bots
Vincenzo Barney UnHerd
Book Review: Ashton Politanoff, ‘Dad Had a Bad Day’
Sam Franzini Our Culture
We Make a Mean Team
Paul Thompson POW Magazine
NYC Is a Deeply Religious City
Stephen G. Adubato Cracks in Postmodernity
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Defends Beauty
Nora Kenney Mittiga Word on Fire
Adaptations: The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Chris Marino Romanticon
On Not 'Fighting Gravity'
Andrew Boryga Dwell
The Untold Story of Larry Bird
Mark Judge Chronicles
15 Books Our Critics Can’t Wait for This Summer
Meghan Collins Sullivan NPR
The Way That Abides Forever
Nadya Williams Providence
Big Money
Katrina Gulliver The Freeman
Leaving the Women’s Movement
Kara Jesella Tablet
Reenactor of the Present
Evan McHenry Cleveland Review of Books
A Stylish All-Women Wrestling League?
Maxwell Rabb Harper's Bazaar


Friday, May 22
What Did the Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman Trial Really Reveal?
Katie Baker Ringer
The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
Jill Lepore The New Yorker
The Preppy Comeback
Tim Rice The Daily Wire
When Sluts Settle Down
Kara Kennedy The Free Press
Hard Rain
Wyatt Williams Harper's
Common Readers
Selen Ozturk The Point
Why the Canon Is Worth Conserving
R. V. Young Modern Age
Art and History, Downtown, Uptown
Brian T. Allen National Review
The Case Against New York Times v. Sullivan
Carson Holloway The American Mind
Bob Dylan Does It on His Own Terms
James B. Meigs WSJ Free Expression
Gen Z’s Incompetent Converts
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
Spencer Pratt Turns L.A. Into His Reality Show
Gary Baum The Hollywood Reporter
Up, Up and Away
Kate Aurthur Variety
Rethinking Education in the AI Age
Jacob Potash The Hedgehog Review
Resort to Boulder
Will Tavlin n+1
Our Lives in the Panopticon
Albert Norton Jr. University Bookman
What We Have Lost With 'The Late Show'
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
Online Sports Gambling and Virtue
Anthony B. Bradley Acton Institute
A Record Doesn't Have to Mean Something
Sophie Kemp POW Magazine
Is Miami a Failure of the Assimilation Model?
Gil Guerra City Journal
What Exactly Do These Men Have Against Introspection?
Kevin Lincoln GQ
The Real and the Unreal
Luke Burgis The Republic
Work Will Always Matter
Chris Griswold Commonplace
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Bagel Bans by Compact
Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan
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