RealClearBooks May 6, 2026 Archives

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LeBron James Isn’t a Spaceship. He’s a Time Machine.
Danny Chau The Ringer
The 2026 Met Gala: Bezoses, Beyoncé, and Blood
Rachel Syme The New Yorker
The Inversion of ‘Animal Farm’
Nicholas Clairmont The Free Press
Redeeming Harold Bloom
Blake Bailey UnHerd
Charles Dickens... and Other Bad Men Who are Good Writers
Francine Prose LitHub
If You Love Reading, Skip Grad School
Eric Jager Compact
Work Won't Love You Back
Greta Rainbow Filmmaker Magazine
The Ethiopian Running Secret
Michael Crawley & Geoff Burns Aeon
Faith-Based Investing and Impact
Jim Sorenson & Terrence Keeley ImpactAlpha
There’s an Independent Bookstore Revival
Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation
Elizabeth Strout’s Portrait of a Good Man in Quiet Crisis
Ron Charles Substack
The Wembanyama Energy Problem
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
AI Romance and Existential Despair
Joseph Figliolia City Journal
'Michael' Is Not Rooted in Reality
Eileen Jones Jacobin
From DOJ to Ballot Box: The Rise of Lawfare Candidates
Julie Kelly RCInvestigations
The New ‘Animal Farm’ Should’ve Worked Harder
John J. Miller WSJ Free Expression
MEMRI Catalogues Bizarre Collaboration
RCP Video RealClearPolitics
Sitting Apart
Sasha Razor Los Angeles Review of Books
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Pre-Industrial Life Was Worse by City Journal
Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan
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