RealClearBooks July 20, 2026 Archives

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Ode to Spain, Our Competent Kings of the World Cup

Brian Phillips The Ringer

How the Beach Vacation Became a Country-Music Trope

Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker

That Many-Talented Man: Christopher Nolan

Alexander Larman Prospect

The Literary Wars

M. D. Bennett The Metropolitan Review

The Book That Changed How We Think About Thinking

Peter Coy The Freee Press

Who Stewards the Vice President’s Soul?

Valerie Pavilonis Arc

“It-girl” Novelists’ Masculine Revisions

Grace Byron House House Magazine

Christopher Nolan: Hollywood's Last Hero

Leo Robson UnHerd

Fashion People Are Having a Hot Rohmer Summer

Véronique Hyland Elle

REVIEW: ‘About Last Night’

Christine Rosen Washington Free Beacon

The Anti-Populist

Gilad Edelman The Atlantic

Summer Reads

Multiple authors Granta

REVIEW: Fights! by Scott McClanahan

R. Wang Zona Motel

The Epic That Forgot to Be Epic

Henry Oliver GQ

Hollywood Can’t Survive Without Animation

Clayton Davis Variety

America First, Soccer Second

Adam Wren Politico

Nolan’s Odyssey and the Search for Wisdo

Titus Techera Civitas Outlook

Back When Football Was Innocent—And the World, Too

Quico Toro Persuasion