RealClearBooks October 8, 2025 Archives

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Taylor Swift’s New Album Is a Masterpiece of Cringe

Carl Wilson Slate

Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art

Lauren Michele Jackson The New Yorker

The Last Postmodern Novel

Anika Jade Levy Kismet

A Playwright Without Heirs

Alexander Larman The Critic

Totality Without Signification

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Pittsburgh Review of Books

Did Leo Strauss Get Religion?

Paul Seaton Civitas Outlook

Thomas Pynchon’s World of Shadows

William T. Vollmann UnHerd

Nothing is Over

Luke McGowan-Arnold The Metropolitan Review

Animal Memoirs Gone Wild

Rebecca van Laer Orion Magazine

Force of Habit

Greta Rainbow Family Style

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic

7 New Books You Should Read This October

Emma Alpern & Jasmine Vojdani Vulture

Nothing Left Inside

Anton Cebalo Novum Newsletter

“To Free Someone Else”: Toni Morrison the Book Editor

Marina Magloire The Nation

Yesterday’s Totalitarian

Gage Klipper Chronicles

The Future of American Fiction Is Not in NYC

Michael P. Gibson Spectator World

Justice Neil Gorsuch’s Advice? Look to Our Founding

Jason Cao The Buckley Beacon

The Importance of Boredom

Christopher Gage Oxford Sour

You Might Be Writing About Yourself Too Much

Audrey Lee Substack

Against News-Cycle Christianity

Matthew Burdette Theology of Culture