RealClearBooks January 1, 2026 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

Hamilton, Jefferson, and the American Idea

Matt Riffe RealClearBooks

The 2025 Chronically Online Draft Guide

Jodi Walker The Ringer

‘Marty Supreme’ Is a Victim of Its Own Hype

Suzy Weiss The Free Press

Norman Podhoretz: the Undeceived

James Piereson City Journal

The Dislocations of Shuang Xuetao

Ting Lin The Nation

What Josh Safdie Told Us About the 'Marty Supreme' Ending

Frazier Tharpe GQ

Fran Lebowitz Lays Down the Law

Sian Cain Air Mail

This Is Top Forty

Robert C. Gilbert The Metropolitan Review

How to Navigate the Year of Slop

Gurwinder Bhogal UnHerd

Afterthoughts

Paul Franz ashes and sparks

Natalia Lafourcade Reimagines Mexican Folk Music

Jack Herrera The New Yorker

How Thomas Mann Wrote 'The Magic Mountain'

Chris Power The Guardian