RealClearBooks December 16, 2025 Archives

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Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro

Michael Schulman The New Yorker

The Best Shots of 2025

Adam Nayman The Ringer

What Rob Reiner Was Telling Us

Sam Kahn Persuasion

The Best Online Articles of 2025

Ted Gioia The Honest Broker

Book-Gifting Guide for Normies (and Beyond)

Staff The Point’s Substack

Our Favorite Books of 2025

Multiple authors The Paris Review

Daydream Nationalism

Chris R. Morgan Romanticon

Rob Reiner Did Nothing by Half Measures

Stephanie Zacharek Time

Ken Burns’s Wake-Up Call

Susan Brynne Long Law & Liberty

Sydney Sweeney: Christy Martin Role Was a Responsibility

Stephanie Apstein SI

Parmentel and Didion

Daniel J. Flynn Modern Age

Inside the Jane Austen Theme Park

Tanya Gold UnHerd

When Does a Divorce Begin?

Anahid Nersessian The Yale Review

Big Pharma: A Love Story

Christopher Gage Oxford Sour

Should The U.S. Government Break Up Big Tech?

RCP Video RealClearPolitics

Hamnet as Tragedy, Hamnet as Farce

Carmen Petaccio The Culture We Deserve

Close Reading: A Memory, 1969-70

William Cain Slant Books

“Hamnet” Is a Masterpiece—With a Huge Blind Spot

Emily Starr Kwilinski Substack