RealClearBooks May 27, 2026 Archives

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The Kids Are Not All Right at Cannes

Justin Chang The New Yorker

‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Is a ‘Star Wars’ Stopgap

Ben Lindbergh The Ringer

Michael Phelps on Finding Purpose Beyond the Pool

Emile Nuh & Coy Wire CNN

The Cheap Tradsploitation of ‘Yesteryear’

Julia Yost Compact

Did You Think I Wouldn’t Be Able to Tell?

Sam Kriss Numb at the Lodge

The Literary World Is Sleepwalking Into an AI Disaster

Kelsey Piper The Argument

Wishin’ and Hopin’ (and Dyin’)

Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review

'The Coddling of the American Mind' Is Still Relevant

Pamela Paresky Substack

An Indie Horror Film Became an Obsession

Saba Hamedy & Greg Rosenstein NBCNews

You, A.I., and Nobody Else

Adam Pearson Magazine Non Grata

Should Fiction Writers Use AI?

Konstantin Asimonov The Republic of Letters

Douglas Stuart and the Struggle to Endure

Will McDonald Public Books

We Should All Be Autodidacts

Naomi Kanakia LitHub

Belle Burden and the Storyteller’s Dilemma

Meghan Cox Gurdon WSJ Free Expression

Stories for the Surveillance Age

Martin Dolan Toronto Review

A Life Guided by the Arts

Sam Hockley-Smith Southwest Review

China's Global Plan

David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics

A Culture of Defamation

Carson Holloway Federalist

Mavericks Without a Cause

Charlie Goldberg Dissent

An Uncanny Moment for Jazz Lovers

Ted Gioia The Honest Broker

SpaceX IPO Will Bolster America’s Tech Supremacy

Joel Kotkin UnHerd

Chance Encounter

Hamilton Cain Chapter 16