RealClearBooks October 19, 2026 Archives

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What John Goodman Knows About Fear

Michael Schulman The New Yorker

The Dodgers’ Demise Changes Everything and Nothing

Ben Lindbergh The Ringer

Did Nathan Fielder Get Too Close to Elizabeth Holmes?

Kat Rosenfield Free Press

Foucault at a Hundred

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Commonweal

Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

Kim Phillips-Fein Dissent

The Right Words in the Right Order

William Davies The Ideas Letter

Why My Classmates Want Me Silenced

Nikos Mohammadi UnHerd

Cancel Culture and the Contemporary Novel

Edmund King Substack

Why Young Men Keep Gambling

Victoria Guida Politico

The End of the Long 20th

Sam Kahn Castalia

On Marlon James’ ‘The Disappearers’

Adam Pearson The Metropolitan Review

Dawn Major Interviews Frederick Barthelme

Dawn Major Southern Literary Review

Men at Work

Luke Winkie Slate

REVIEW: ‘You Can See Everything’

John Podhoretz Washington Free Beacon

Is All Art Political?

Thaddeus Thomas The Republic of Letters

White Noise

Ron Charles Substack

‘Whalefall’ Review

Sonny Bunch The Bulwark

How to Be a (Roman) Man

Catharine Edwards Aeon

The Grateful Dead’s One-Handed Acid Outlaw

Brian Anderson The Playboy Reader