RealClearBooks October 5, 2026 Archives

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‘Digger’ Is a Loud Satire of Satire Itself

Adam Nayman The Ringer

Baseball Is Better with a Little Risk

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

Joyce Carol Oates Contradicts Herself

George Monaghan The New Statesman

The Boys Are Alright-Looking But Not Actually Alright

Leonora Barclay Persuasion

America’s New Geography of Opportunity

Joel Kotkin UnHerd

The Failure of the Pandemic Novel

Martin Dolan The Metropolitan Review

‘East of Eden’ and the Families We Choose to Forgive

Michele McAloon Free Press

On Becoming a Christian

Grant Maierhofer The Republic of Letters

Safe at SlutCon

overlocked The New Critic

The Great American Adventure of Reading Doonesbury

Scott Bradfield New Republic

Did Robert Frost Despair for His Soul?

Benjamin Paul Myers Portico

Was Cormac McCarthy a Horrible Guy?

Alexander Larman New York Post

The Right Has a Woman Problem

Pedro L. Gonzalez The Spectator

Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Road to Stardom

Sarah Ditum The Times

An Interview with Katie Kitamura

Patrick Cottrell The Believer

How AI Replaced Me

Stephanie Uchino-Beach Oakland Review of Books

Philip Larkin by the Book

Dana Gioia New Verse Review

Andre 3000 and the Myth of Permanence

Paul Thompson POW Magazine

How to Make A Documentary the Hard Way

Clara Cuccaro The Baffler

A Spy Spoof With a Grain of Truth

Malcolm Forbes Washington Free Beacon

Anthropic’s “Discernment”

Luke Burgis Substack