RealClearBooks December 22, 2025 Archives

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The Counting Crows Story, Told Through Their Deep Cuts

Steven Hyden The Ringer

Watching Philip Rivers Play Makes Me Feel Old

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

Bernie Bro Elegy

Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack

Tolstoy's Last Novel

Joseph Epstein Washington Free Beacon

We Need Romanticism Because Modernity Is Ugly

Paul Franz The Republic of Letters

On the Love and Work of Jack Gilbert

John Julius Reel Romanticon

Runaround Sue

Henry Begler A Good Hard Stare

How The New Yorker Became Irrelevant

Sam Kahn Persuasion

The Theater of the Unreal

Annie Dorsen The Metropolitan Review

In Pluribus, Groupthink Spells the End of Art

Phillip Maciak The New Republic

How Did Tolkien Write Great Books?

Bradley J. Birzer Law & Liberty

Joel Edgerton on Facing His “Greatest Fear” in Train Dreams

Charlie Calver GQ

The Books I Enjoyed Most This Year, 2025

Henry Oliver The Common Reader

Everybody Loves 'Emily in Paris'

Blanca Schofield Air Mail

The Year That Made Jane Austen Sexy Again

Susie Goldsbrough The New Statesman

The Breakdown Between the Sexes

Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations

Tabloids Predicted the Future

Jeff Weiss Dirt

The Surprising Return of the Bookstore

Ted Gioia The Honest Broker