RealClearBooks October 9, 2025 Archives

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Dwayne Johnson and the Career Reinvention Oscar

Julianna Ress The Ringer

The Uncanceling of Chris Brown

Craig Jenkins Vulture

Thomas Pynchon’s Lasting Triumph

Leo Robson The New Statesman

Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator

Lincoln Michel Counter Craft

You Wouldn’t Be Here for Someone Else

B.D. McClay The Substack Post

Elegy and Effigy

Paul Franz Romanticon

You Say You Want a Revolution

Daniella Nichinson The Metropolitan Review

The Matriarch of Spiritual Revolution

Randy Rosenthal The American Scholar

Walking with Wordsworth

Peter Schwendener Commonweal

The Future of Feminism Is Childcare

Valerie Stivers UnHerd

Quit Romanticizing Boredom

Anna North The Cut

The Power Theory of Free Speech

Yascha Mounk Substack

The Translator’s Voice

Ian J. Battaglia Chicago Review of Books

Is Donald Trump a Viking Warlord?

Evie Solheim The American Conservative

Brad Ingelsby Is Redefining Great American Storytelling

Brady Langmann Esquire

Shelf Life: Kiran Desai

Riza Cruz Elle

My Parents’ Marriage

Susan Cheever The Paris Review