RealClearBooks August 27, 2026 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

Dolly Parton for the People

Kathryn Schulz The New Yorker

Biggest Story Lines Ahead of the College Football Season

Joel Anderson Ringer

Can This Little Bookstore Save a Rust-Belt Town?

Will Bardenwerper The Free Press

Dolly Parton: Head of the Country Class

Farahn Morgan UnHerd

Can Billionaires Buy Transcendence?

Savannah Huitema The Metropolitan Review

Infinite Hedge

David Hill The Baffler

Good Robot, Bad Robot

Yascha Mounk Substack

Have Moviegoers Been Suckered?

Tim Riley Los Angeles Review of Books

Remembering Dolly Parton

Arielle Gordon POW Magazine

The Biennale, the Good, the Bad, and the Bungled

Brian T. Allen National Review

On César Aira’s Shifting Dimensions

Leah Mandel Cleveland Review of Books

William T. Vollmann: Bard of the American Empire

Max Jeffery The Spectator

Why Is the Campus Novel More Tempting Than Ever?

Emmeline Clein Cultured

The Lost World of the Founding Fathers

James Piereson The New Criterion

Ridley Scott’s 'The Dog Stars' Is an Oddly Trad Fantasy

Adam Nayman New Republic

Dolly Parton Was Universally Beloved

Gary Abernathy Abernathy Road

The Downfall of Shakespeare in the Park

Annie Levin Compact

Beware the Old Man on Campus

Jeremy Adams Public Discourse

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Odds & Odysseys by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

Sign up for the RealClearBooks e-mail newsletter and never miss an update!

Follow RealClearBooks on Twitter