RealClearBooks Week of May 25, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 25
The Passing of Bob Woodson
Joshua Mitchell RealClearBooks
How Good Is This World Cup Squad, Really?
Leander Schaerlaeckens The New Yorker
Judson’s Last Ride
Sean Trende RealClearPolitics
America’s Marvelous Mythology
Austin Ruse Modern Age
Leaving Stones Unturned
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
Bob Dylan and the Beatles
Rob Weinert-Kendt America Magazine
Marked Down
Nicole Lipman n+1
Millennial Hipster Jesus
Chris Jesu Lee The Metropolitan Review
Cosmetic Surgery’s False Promises
Sarah Jane Souther WSJ Free Expression
Alasdair Macintyre Was Right All Along
Ben Cobley UnHerd
In Bloomers: Olivia Rodrigo’s Un-Grunge Dilemma
Gabrielle Minoli POW Magazine
Wallace Shawn Isn’t Ready to Die
Greta Rainbow Interview Magazine
The Enhanced Games Are a Scam on Steroids
Dave Braneck Jacobin
'The Odyssey' Increasingly Looks Like An Epic Disaster
Auguste Meyrat Federalist
Stephen Colbert Signed Off in Perfect, Absurdist Fashion
Eric Francisco Esquire
Is Everyone Using AI Better Than Me?
Foster Kamer GQ


Tuesday, May 26
The Caitlin Clark Machine Is Turning on Caitlin
Seerat Sohi The Ringer
The Transformation of Elina Svitolina
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Barthelme, the Houstonian
Susan Choi The Paris Review
Made For These Times
David Polansky Strange Frequencies
A Man for All Seasons
Graham Daseler Quillette
An Allegiance to Ghosts
Richard M. Reinsch II Law & Liberty
The Rebooted Animal Farm’s New Villain: Capitalism
Titus Techera Civitas Outlook
Blame French Theory? In this Economy?
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack
Jack Kerouac: The Pseudo-Saint of Mindfulness
Josh Milton-Bell Liberties Journal
Does Looksmaxxing Give Women the Ick?
Rob Henderson Substack
Boy Girl Problems
Grace Byron The Baffler
Fidel at a Distance, Raúl Closer
Roger Simon American Refugees
Cannes and the Language of Exile
Agnès Poirier Engelsberg Ideas
A few Thoughts About Truth
Roger Kimball Substack
Washington’s Farewell Address Fulfilled the Declaration
Daniel McCarthy Daily Signal
On Howard Pyle’s “Otto of the Silver Hand”
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
Butterfly’s Wings
Anne Pedersen Alta Online
Only Fact
Rowland Bagnall Los Angeles Review of Books


Wednesday, May 27
The Kids Are Not All Right at Cannes
Justin Chang The New Yorker
‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Is a ‘Star Wars’ Stopgap
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
Michael Phelps on Finding Purpose Beyond the Pool
Emile Nuh & Coy Wire CNN
The Cheap Tradsploitation of ‘Yesteryear’
Julia Yost Compact
Did You Think I Wouldn’t Be Able to Tell?
Sam Kriss Numb at the Lodge
The Literary World Is Sleepwalking Into an AI Disaster
Kelsey Piper The Argument
Wishin’ and Hopin’ (and Dyin’)
Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review
'The Coddling of the American Mind' Is Still Relevant
Pamela Paresky Substack
An Indie Horror Film Became an Obsession
Saba Hamedy & Greg Rosenstein NBCNews
You, A.I., and Nobody Else
Adam Pearson Magazine Non Grata
Should Fiction Writers Use AI?
Konstantin Asimonov The Republic of Letters
Douglas Stuart and the Struggle to Endure
Will McDonald Public Books
We Should All Be Autodidacts
Naomi Kanakia LitHub
Belle Burden and the Storyteller’s Dilemma
Meghan Cox Gurdon WSJ Free Expression
Stories for the Surveillance Age
Martin Dolan Toronto Review
A Life Guided by the Arts
Sam Hockley-Smith Southwest Review
China's Global Plan
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
A Culture of Defamation
Carson Holloway Federalist
Mavericks Without a Cause
Charlie Goldberg Dissent
An Uncanny Moment for Jazz Lovers
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
SpaceX IPO Will Bolster America’s Tech Supremacy
Joel Kotkin UnHerd
Chance Encounter
Hamilton Cain Chapter 16


Thursday, May 28
What the Pope Said About A.I.
Jill Lepore The New Yorker
Ranking Every Player’s Importance to Team USA’s Roster
Anthony Dabbundo Ringer
A Left Case for the Great Books
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
Belle Burden’s Fans Don’t Care If She Lied
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Superhuman Fantasies
Nicholas Low The Point
On Vargas Llosa’s Final Book and Nationhood
Santiago Ramos America Magazine
A Hermit Gets Naked, Goes Wild
Brian T. Allen National Review
The Promoter
Sean Gregory Time
The End of Books
Sheila Liming The Yale Review
Feed Me's Summer Novel Reading List
Emily Sundberg Feed Me
We Rarely See Films as Fresh as 'I Love Boosters'
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Pratt Summer
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
On Lucy Ives
James Webster Full Stop
The Art of Ham Radio
Drew Oliver The New Criterion
The Antiprophet
Maggie Phillips Tablet
In Search of Undead Malls
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative
Make Humans Great Again
Derek Turner Chronicles
How AIs See Our World
Chenoe Hart Noema
Can Ecosystems Malfunction?
John Drake Aeon


Friday, May 29
‘Backrooms’ Gets Lost in Its Own Labyrinth
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Stories That TV Tells About Online Sex Work
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
The Unlikely Connecticut Coalition Fighting Assisted Suicide
Charles Hilu Dispatch
On a New Compassionate Conservatism
Frank Filocomo Philanthropy Daily
Alexander Dugin Versus Sydney Sweeney
Richard Godwin UnHerd
Singing Is Not Songwriting
Michael E. Long Modern Age
Young Men Seek Muscle in the ‘Wild West’ of Alternative Peds
T.M. Brown CNN
Building an AI Data Center in Minnesota
Thomas John Weber The Paris Review
The Rise of the Sensitivity Reader
Kyle Paoletta The Nation
19 Novels You Need to Read This Summer
Emily Temple LitHub
The Loneliness of the Competitive Quizzer
Drew Basile The Baffler
How Food in America Lost Its Taste
Harry Holmes The Guardian
Our Culture’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2026
Sam Franzini Our Culture
'Animal Farm' Rewritten
Richard Salsman The Daily Economy
Imax Is the Hottest Brand in Movies. Why Is It for Sale?
Rebecca Rubin Variety
Panic! At the Post-Reality
Katherine Williams Dirt
Robert De Niro on Building the Tribeca Festival
Raymond Ang GQ
Be Excellent, Not Efficient
Eboo Patel Persuasion
The World Cup
Dave Barry Substack
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Who We Are by City Journal
Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan
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