RealClearBooks September 24, 2026 Archives

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What Barbara Kingsolver Believes the Novel Can Do

Casey Cep The New Yorker

Sense and Sensibility Star George MacKay Aims to Please

Ben Allen GQ

Coltrane’s Shadow

Mark Stryker Tablet

Where Cities and Oceans Meet

Brad Bolman Pioneer Works

What Happened at the Long-Covid Lesbian Bar?

Katie Herzog The Free Press

Walking in Edward Hopper’s Footsteps

Brian T. Allen National Review

The Last Great American Novel

Ed Simon The Hedgehog Review

Whither the Drop Out City?

Ross Barkan Political Currents

The Rise—and Fall?—of the University

Charles Carman Modern Age

In Defense of Recess

Nora Kenney Mittiga City Journal

Jonathan Majors Is Back. Yikes.

Malcolm Ferguson The New Republic

Machiavelli’s Contested Legacy

Brian A. Smith Law & Liberty

Miley Hits the Limit of Reinvention on 'Bass Persuades'

Grace Byron The Fader

Out of School

Bart Schaneman The Metropolitan Review

The Padres Have Become a Flashpoint in MLB's Labor Battle

Alden Gonzalez ESPN

Iran’s Underground Cartoonists

Mark Judge Chronicles

Zach Cregger Made a 'Resident Evil' Movie With Bite

Eileen Jones Jacobin