RealClearBooks Week of April 6, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 6
The N.B.A.’s Race to the Bottom
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Picking the NBA’s Impossible MVP Race
Michael Pina The Ringer
An Interview with Magdalene Taylor
Greta Dieck The Republic of Letters
Water and Bones in Raleigh, North Carolina
Alex Hibbs The Dispatch
Welcome to the Manosphere
Tal Fortgang Civitas Outlook
Journalism’s Better Days
D.G. Hart Law & Liberty
The Playboy Interview: Maya Angelou
Stevona Elem-Rogers The Playboy Reader
The Reluctant King of HBO
Stuart Heritage Air Mail
Where Baseball Is Bigger Than God
Jeff Bloodworth UnHerd
On 'Transcription'
Sasha Frere-Jones 4Columns
The Manosphere Is Too Online for Louis Theroux
John Semley The New Republic
The Information State Isn’t Going Away
Geoff Shullenberger Compact
Dan Hurley Might Be the NCAA’s Most Inspiring Coach
Jayson Buford GQ
The Fountainhead
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
The Exemption Option: AI and Believers
Elizabeth Stice Front Porch Republic
The Death of Chocolate
Nicole James The Freeman
Fact-Checkers Anonymous
Jasper Lo The Nation
Bright, Built World
Joseph Osmundson Los Angeles Review of Books
Eva Longoria’s French Connection
Degen Pener The Hollywood Reporter
The House Is a Work of Art
Andrew Deming Aeon


Tuesday, April 7
My Unrequited Love Story with J.F.K., Jr.
Jeffrey Eugenides The New Yorker
Winners & Losers of the Men’s National Championship Game
Steven Ruiz Ringer
There Will Always Be the Odeon
Erin Somers The Nation
The Fall and Rise of Bowie
Ethan Barton The Washington Free Beacon
Real Feelings for Fake Beauty
Freddie deBoer Substack
'All the President’s Men' Is Still Disturbingly Vital
Anthony Breznican Esquire
The Partnership of Speech
Wilfred M. McClay City Journal
Ben Lerner’s 'Transcription' Is a Brilliant Meditation on Tech
Katie Tobin Jacobin
Robert Frost at Midlife
Kamran Javadizadeh The Yale Review
On Being Born Into Freud
Alana Pockros Dirt
'The Drama' Has a Big Reveal
Adam Nayman The New Republic
The Breath of Every Living Being
Richard Chess Slant Books
The Gentle Parenting Of Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’
Grace Byron Defector
Antiwar Art for Conservatives
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative
15 New April Books
Jessica Blough & Elizabeth Casillas Alta Online
What Ibram X. Kendi Doesn’t Admit
Coleman Hughes The Free Press
The Drama of Reading Poetry
Oliver Spivey Modern Age


Wednesday, April 8
Ye Is Better Than This
Frazier Tharpe GQ
The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents
Brandy Jensen The New Yorker
Ingestion, Mediation, Repetition, Fabrication
Federico Perelmuter Kismet
Facing the Past
Sarah McEachern Los Angeles Review of Books
Does the NBA Really Need 32 Teams?
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
They Got the Beat
David S. Wills The Metropolitan Review
The Profession That Does Not Exist
Multiple authors The Baffler
Caro Claire Burke on Tradwives
Sara Petersen LitHub
The President and The Universities
Jonathan Zimmerman Liberties
The World of Aramco
Krithika Varagur The Paris Review
The 800-Word Book Review
Derek Neal Substack
Trump Challenges Birthright Citizenship
Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations
A Review of Petrarch's Canzoniere
Richard Wakefield New Verse Review
‘Organic’ Protests That Come With Price Tags
Alex Tarascio The Daily Wire
Nobody Belongs Anymore
Jeff Giesea Substack
Living Without My Self
Mette Leonard Høeg Aeon
What the Astronauts See That Trump Cannot
Gal Beckerman The Atlantic


Thursday, April 9
The Body of This Death
Ross McCullough RealClearBooks
The Light From the Dark Side of the Moon
Brian Phillips The Ringer
Spirit of America
Audrey Clare Farley The Metropolitan Review
Are Prediction Markets Gambling?
Charles Fain Lehman City Journal
Inside Charleston’s Craft Renaissance
Farahn Morgan UnHerd
Something From the Outside Coming In
Maggie Millner n+1
The Total Art of Flat Design
Daniel Miller The Palladium Letter
The Worlds of Jamaica Kincaid
Edna Bonhomme The Nation
They Came to See Us Suffer
Charlie Tyson The Baffler
Where to See Frank Lloyd Wright’s Genius Unfold
Brian T. Allen National Review
The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Cannes Film Festival 2026 Lineup
Elsa Keslassy & Ellise Shafer Variety
AI Is Exposing The Limits Of Economics
Stephen Pimentel The Federalist
Frozen Fuel: Alaska Eyes Another Epic Pipeline
James Varney RealClearInvestigations
Entertaining Angels in Transit
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
Kanye Isn’t a Threat to British Jews
Hadley Freeman The Free Press
Golf’s Accidental Architecture
Allen Mendenhall The Freeman
Gwendoline Riley Is Haunted by Herself
Lola Seaton The New Statesman


Friday, April 10
'The Drama' Is One Long Troll
Richard Brody The New Yorker
The NBA’s 65-Game Rule Is Tanking Awards Season
Howard Beck The Ringer
The Bimbo Paradox
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
To Meet a Chatbot
Matthew M. Davis Quillette
Why Catholic Converts Are Surging
Julia Yost The Washington Post
Does Kanye Deserve Our Forgiveness?
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Madeline Cash's 'Lost Lambs': The Weird Turn Pro
Sam Buntz The Muted Trumpet
Double Vision
Tara K. Menon The Nation
Third Places
Laura Adamczyk Dirt
AI Redux
Dante LaRiccia Cleveland Review of Books
How Not to Save the Planet
Alan Jacobs The Hedgehog Review
An Ode to the Coffee of Old
Noel Yaxley Chronicles
Thank You, Garbage Dump
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
The Metastasis of Technocracy
The Ivy Exile Substack
Book Review: Eswar Prasad's "The Doom Loop"
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
The Best Biopics, Definitively Ranked
Killian Faith-Kelly GQ
How ‘The Drama’ Could Redefine A24
Owen Gleiberman Variety
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Steven Spielberg Conversation by The Ringer
Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley
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