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Years ago in the Sri Lankan highlands, Michael Ondaatje’s Aunt Christie, only 25 years old, volunteered to have “a total... Read More

Is the independent girlboss dead? Maybe she never existed to begin with. The release of Lindy West’s latest cringeworthy... Read More

Somewhere deep in the heart of America, in the back of a bus hurtling down some godforsaken highway, Walmarts and cemeteries and Civil War... Read More

OH, NO. Did I just call Charles Melton a himbo? We’re an hour into lunch at Millie’s Cafe in Los Angeles and I’ve... Read More

Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It turns fifty this year. Its author was a retired English professor from the University of... Read More

In a short story called “Wireless,” published in Scribner’s in 1901, Rudyard Kipling described “a glass... Read More

“The money runs out but the title remains.…” observed the original head of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,... Read More

Lena Dunham lights up when asked about her pet pigs, Victor and Cherry. She adopted Victor in 2024 — followed by Cherry — during... Read More

They have multiplied across my nightstand, and the stack is growing. Sticky notes, a pencil, junkmail postcards, and a receipt work as... Read More

Who or what is Narcissus? Is it me staring admiringly at myself in a mirror? Or is Narcissus the image staring admiringly back at me? Does it... Read More

WILLIAM H. GASS, the portly pontiff of English prose, felt for literature an intense ardor that imbues his audacious fiction and his... Read More

Peter Schweizer, Steven Mosher, Brian Kennedy, John Tamny, and Jan Jekielek join RCP's David Desrosiers to discuss the war with Iran and why... Read More

The text wasn’t completely unexpected. Still, I was shocked.     Last year, a writer named Cathy Alter asked to... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with... Read More

On a Friday in January, before dawn, a 43-year-old was taken from his home in Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet, in western France. He was... Read More

Let’s start with the acknowledgments, usually the best place to begin in a political memoir. Here the author admits that he is less... Read More

I. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome Christmastime in Las Vegas: tinsel on the slot machines, Santa hats on the pit bosses, short days, vivid... Read More

Okay so let’s talk about writing. How did you know you wanted to be a writer? You know it’s hard to really know the answer to... Read More

Last week, the books and culture magazine I run, The Metropolitan Review, held the launch party for its first print issue. It was a... Read More

Jaden Ivey is far from the first promising NBA prospect who failed to pan out with the team that drafted him. But few, if any, have washed... Read More

Last year a new Texas law banned students in public K-12 schools from using cell phones during the school day. School... Read More

In his 1971 presidential memoir The Vantage Point, Lyndon Johnson concluded his chapter on the space program as follows: On the morning... Read More

Once upon a time, no conversation about Playboy magazine was complete without a jab at the oft-repeated claim by certain men to read it for... Read More

In 1989, as the Cold War began to fade and the eastern frontier opened, a young, penniless would-be Russian writer made the classic trip from... Read More

The Queen of Mean may have been indelicate, but she wasn’t entirely wrong. I recently took a break from swearing at TurboTax (Thou... Read More

Today’s guest is the one and only Lena Dunham, the writer, actress, and director perhaps best known for... Read More

As we all know by now, Catholic churches around the US saw record numbers of baptisms and confirmations last weekend. This is part and parcel... Read More

I WAS FRESHLY out of undergrad and looking for a charismatic figure to replace my professors. I tried reading Tony Robbins, and when that... Read More

One day there will have to be a biography of Harold Bloom. It is inevitable. And rightly so. No other critic was so forceful and passionate a... Read More

Americans are falling in love with Project Hail Mary, a movie about an astronaut who finds himself alone at the end of the universe,... Read More

It was Dusty Baker’s secret ritual after virtually every home game when he managed the Houston Astros, but one night, he was... Read More

Originally conceived in 1958 and sponsored by the American Library Association, the weeklong celebration is a full seven days set aside to... Read More

In The Palm House, Gwendoline Riley takes a page from Dickens—specifically, the first page of Bleak House—and... Read More

I thought I was being original by asking Kate Folk, the San Francisco-based author of the critically acclaimed novel “Sky Daddy,”... Read More

Right now, as you read this very story, a Wendy’s somewhere is closing. In February, the chain announced that it would... Read More

For evidence of a so-called cultural vibe shift, the pendulum swing away from the extreme sensitivity and irrational wokeness of the... Read More