RealClearBooks Week of June 1, 2026 Archives

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Monday, June 1
The Knicks: The Only Game in Town
David Remnick The New Yorker
On ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane,’ Paul McCartney Is a Kid
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
Heteropessimist Horror
Matthew Schmitz Compact
Inside the Spencer Pratt Fundraiser Circuit
Isaac Simpson MAMA
The Year of Cosmic Shock
Sohrab Ahmari & Matthew Gasda UnHerd
There’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men
Magdalene J. Taylor The New York Times
Little Modernist Magazines
Henry Begler SOUVENIR Magazine
Gen X Turns 60
Nancy Rommelmann The Freeman
The Hottest Beach Read of the Summer Is Nonfiction
Emily Burack Town & Country
How to Destroy a Literary Reputation in One Move
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Explains It All
William Earl Variety
The Absurd Sexism of Euphoria’s Third Season
Emily Topping Current Affairs
How Publishing Actually Works
Nick Mamatas The Republic of Letters
Johnny Yong Bosch Became Anime’s Greatest Leading Man
Eric Francisco Esquire
A Return to Proper History
Andrew Roberts Washington Free Beacon
Against the Imperial Press
Carson Holloway The American Mind
Fishing for the Omen
Julia Case-Levine Kismet
The Right to Make Noise
Ron Charles Substack
Submerged Populations vs. Representation
Caio Major The Metropolitan Review
Time to Slay the Slop Machine
Noel Yaxley Chronicles
Reification & Consciousness of the Tech Bro
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack


Tuesday, June 2
Wemby vs. the Knicks
Michael Pina The Ringer
'Backrooms' and 'Obsession' Won the Weekend
Corey Atad GQ
The God of ‘Euphoria’
Adam Lehrer Tablet
The Making of a Teenage Terror Suspect
Maya Sulkin The Free Press
Consciousness Researchers Are Tripping
Kit Wilson Commonweal
What It Is Like to Read Proust
Henry Oliver The Common Reader
Even Narcissus Gazes on Creation
Audrey Horne Substack
The Rise of Ragebait Lit
Maris Kreizman Harper's Bazaar
Whatever Happened to World Literature?
David Randall Minding the Campus
Modernity and Its Discontents
Lee Oser Law & Liberty
Finally, the Definitive Literary Valley Porn Novel Arrives
Mariella Rudi LA Times
On 'Land'
Kazuo Robinson Harvard Review
Cara Delevingne Is Ready to Reintroduce Herself
Christian Allaire Vogue
To YouTube and Beyond
Jesse Hassenger The Guardian
In Praise of the Typewriter
Ruth Ozeki LitHub


Wednesday, June 3
Why the American Novel Refused to Grow Up
Becca Rothfeld The New Yorker
Victor Wembanyama’s Time Is Now
Danny Chau The Ringer
Baseball’s Biggest Culture War Isn’t About Politics
Drew Berkemeyer Daily Wire
Why YouTubers Are Turning Hollywood Upside Down
Marlow Stern Variety
Can Bad People Write Good Books?
Gina Dalfonzo Plough
The Enduring Appeal of Good Journalism
Mike Solana & Blake Dodge Pirate Wires
The Independent Writer’s Advantage in the Age of AI
Jasmine Sun On Substack
The Midwestern Gothic Stories of Eric Cyr
Nadya Williams University Bookman
Easy Writer
Max Callimanopulos The Metropolitan Review
Don't Sleep on Readers
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Themistocles and the Dangers of Democracy
James Diddams Law & Liberty
On 'Michael'
Harmony Holiday 4Columns
The Replacements
Steven Edginton RealClearInvestigations
The Texan Ideology
Fred Turner The Baffler
The Elusive Mind of Shakespeare
David Wootton Engelsberg Ideas


Thursday, June 4
Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Want to Read?
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker
Inside the Making of 'The Odyssey'
Zach Baron GQ
What Was College For?
Benjamin Samuels The New Critic
Gen Z Is Lost in the Backrooms
Jack Butler WSJ Free Expression
Can Marriage Survive the Manosphere?
Anna Louie Sussman The New Republic
My Time Inside the Immigration Industrial Complex
Juan David Rojas Compact
How the Garden (Again) Became Eden
Ethan Shire City Journal
A Boola Boola Revolution
Brian T. Allen National Review
A Fan’s Notes
Michael Knapp n+1
'Masters of the Universe' Rocks, Actually
Eric Francisco Esquire
On Being Canceled Before It Was Cool
Kat Rosenfield Substack
Cézanne in Philadelphia and Everywhere Else
Greg Gerke Romanticon
Why 'Yesteryear' Failed
Helen Roy Substack
Marilyn Monroe Lived in My House
Roger Simon American Refugees
Hildegard, Tarkovsky, Citrus Trees
Nicolette Polek The Paris Review
The Drift
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
AI Enters the Courtroom
Walter Donway The Daily Economy
Antisemitism & Sharia Law in America
J. Peder Zane & James Varney RCInvestigations
The People Lost in Addictive Daydreams
Molly Gorman & Molly Gorman BBC


Friday, June 5
A.I. Panic Hits Music City
Nathan Harden RealClearBooks
The WNBA’s Top 25 Players Under 25
Seerat Sohi The Ringer
60 Minutes Has Been Tarnished for Years
John Fund The Spectator
How to Raise ‘AI-Native’ Kids
Evan Gardner The Free Press
At the Substack House, Media Is Still Fun
Savannah Sobrevilla GQ
The Lost Art of Calling Someone on the Damn Phone
Luke Guillory Esquire
Inside the UFC’s $60 Million White House Gambit
Alex Weprin Hollywood Reporter
The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized
Dave Mandl Los Angeles Review of Books
Life on a Tube Filled With Seamen
Chris Tharp The Metropolitan Review
How to Belong Without Losing Oneself
Stephen G. Adubato First Things
Why Gen Z Is Obsessed With Horror
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
America on the Screen
Ed Simon The Baffler
The Great AI Jobs Transition
Kevin Frazier Civitas Outlook
'Cape Fear' Review
Lucy Mangan The Guardian
The Critic's Loves
Barry Schwabsky The Point
Towards a Less-Anxious Age
Emina Melonic Law & Liberty
Tolkien and Tech
Michael Lucchese Acton Institute
Confessions of an Exploited Pop Star
Kristen Martin The New Republic
Ann Patchett and the Stories That Rescue Us
Ron Charles Substack
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Left's Institutional Capture by City Journal
Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan
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