RealClearBooks September 10, 2026 Archives

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What Does Serena Williams Want From Her Comeback?

Lex Pryor The Ringer

Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

Brady Brickner-Wood New Yorker

Why Fusionism Failed

Geoff Shullenberger Compact

The Man in the Weird Castle

Kat Rosenfield The Free Press

Culture Becomes a Dark Forest

Erik Hoel The Intrinsic Perspective

Murder and Mayhem on the Bluest of Blue-Sky Days

Brian T. Allen National Review

Will the End of Reading Be the End of Democracy Too?

Henry Oliver Common Reader

Twain’s Patriotism

Ivan Kenneally The Hedgehog Review

A Great Novel Becomes a Bad Show

Jeremy Gordon The Atlantic

The Oppressor’s Jokes Punch Up

Christina Drill The Metropolitan Review

Don’t the Sun Look Angry Through the Trees?

Henry Begler A Good Hard Stare

I Was Having a Midlife Muscle Crisis

Oliver Bateman Men's Health

Everything in Moderation

Lora Kelley The Drift

My Job Is to Fulfill Your Infantile Desire

Susan Zieger Public Books

‘Hope’ Review

Sonny Bunch The Bulwark

Artificial Testimony

Julia Aizuss The Point’s Substack

The Tom Stoppard I Knew

Luke Johnson The American Conservative

Devolution Revolution

Joel Kotkin RealClearInvestigations

‘The Uprising’ Review

Michael Phillips Variety

Emily St. John Mandel Is Desperately Seeking Joy

Sophie Vershbow Elle

The 10 Greatest Sports TV Shows

Daniel Fienberg & Angie Han Hollywood Reporter

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Odds & Odysseys by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

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