RealClearBooks October 20, 2026 Archives

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The Large Legacy of ‘Smallville’

Daniel Chin The Ringer

The Irish Punks Who Know Their Yeats

Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker

Tom Cruise, Misunderstood Übermensch

Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review

The Many Failures of Larry David

Blake J. Harris Colossus

Rock Rolls Away

Daniel McCarthy Modern Age

The Work of Going Offline

Holiday Dmitri Los Angeles Review of Books

Sally Rooney’s Radical Chic

Dominic Green WSJ Free Expression

The Justin Herbert Madison Beer Factor

Ethan Strauss House of Strauss

Come to Brazil

Tyler Cowen Works in Progress

The Depth of 'Digger'

Emina Melonic Law & Liberty

Jeff Cunningham Showcases Remarkable Lives in 'Lift'

David DesRosiers RCP

Of Course It’s the Screens. Who Are We Kidding?

Lincoln Michel Counter Craft

Women Should Not Tolerate Porn

Freya India First Things

Our Stuck Culture and the Smashing Pumpkins

C.C. Kilpatrick Substack

God Help Me, I Actually Loved 'Street Fighter'

Eric Francisco Esquire

Pursuing ‘Sense’ and ‘Sensibility’ in Catholic Dating

Nora Kenney Mittiga Word on Fire

Seventy Years of Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

Henry Begler The Dispatch

Young Men Are Being Left Behind

Terry Schilling The American Mind

You Wince Like a Girl

Kristin Grogan Boston Review

Watching 'Musk' Feels Like Being Trapped in a Simulation

David Klion New Republic

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Terminal Crises by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

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