RealClearBooks October 21, 2025 Archives

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The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”

Karl Ove Knausgaard The New Yorker

In ‘Task,’ Faith Is Defined by Doubts—and Doubters

Katie Baker The Ringer

On Amazon (briefly) and Panamerica Books

Paul Bogaards Kill Your Darlings

The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction

Gerald Howard NYTimes

Unexpected Profundity of a Movie About Bird-Watching

Tyler Austin Harper Atlantic

The Saul Bellow He Didn’t Want the World to See

Alec Nevala-Lee Slate

Young Republicans Are Radicalizing Themselves Online

River Page The Free Press

I Coulda Guessed Half of That

Daniel Gavilovski The Metropolitan Review

The Case For Juan Rulfo

Brandon Westlake The Republic of Letters

AI Will Never Be Your Friend

Zito Madu The Nation

The Metrograph Interview #1: Clint Eastwood

Nick Pinkerton Metrograph

What Kind Of Monster: All Fours, Alas

Devon Halliday Liberties

Extreme Makeover, Gothic Edition

Adrian Van Young Southwest Review

Identity as Burden, Identity as Grace

Blake Smith Arc

Everyone Seems to Be On Zimmers’

Michael Hann The Guardian

How Trump Changed Conservatism

Waters and Ellwanger RealClearHistory

Inside Connecticut’s Amistad Awards

Meghan Portfolio Yankee Institute

Sneaky Way Corporate America Blacklists Conservatives

Tyler O'Neil Daily Signal

Louis C.K.’s Texas Novel Isn’t Just Bad—It’s Not Texan

Dan Solomon Texas Monthly

Taylor Swift’s Hollow Gematria

Arye Dworken Tablet

The Necessity of Inequality

Carmel Richardson The American Conservative