RealClearBooks September 15, 2026 Archives

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The Wealthiest—and Stealthiest—Class in America

John Lanchester The New Yorker

No One Loved Hockey More Than Barry Melrose

Adam Gretz GQ

Mark

Jeremy Stern Colossus

Ella Langley. ‘Landman.’ The Rural Vibe Shift Is Real.

Matthew Schmitz NYTimes

The Triumph of the Geeks

Andrew McAfee Arena

A New Kind Of Creative Poverty

Afra Wang Noema

Inside Patrick Mahomes' Remarkable Return From Knee Injury

Nate Taylor ESPN

George Lucas’s Last Great Epic Is an Art Museum

James Parker The Atlantic

Girl, Diagnosed

Emma Camp WSJ Free Expression

The Dominican Baseball Factory

Gus Garcia-Roberts ProPublica

Nicholas Russell’s Debut Novel Gets Weird In The Desert

Chris Thompson Defector

The Seductive Appeal Of Wellness Cults

Bridget Riley The Daily Wire

What Was Improv?

Dennis M. Hogan The Baffler

Contemporary Masters of Dirtbag Literature

Charles Dodd White Substack

What Aristotle Can Teach America

Casey Chalk Modern Age

Are We Cultivating a Generational Aesthetic?

Jeffrey Lawrence Substack

Travel Your Way to Joy

Nicole James The Freeman

Weekend in New York; Violence over the Horizon

David A. Westbrook Substack

Swarms of AI Committing Crime For Money

Dean W. Ball Persuasion

How a Rescue Dog Saved Me

Erik Van Aken Plough