RealClearBooks November 13, 2026 Archives

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The Ringer’s Midseason NFL Power Rankings

Diante Lee The Ringer

Good Enough for a Tuesday Night

Merritt Tierce The New Yorker

Winning and Losing at Love

Adelle Waldman The Point’s Substack

Campuses Need More Pluralism, Not Less

Eboo Patel Persuasion

Investigating Michel Houellebecq Is a Mistake

Thomas Chatterton Williams Atlantic

The End of the Editor

Ross Barkan Political Currents

Alysa Liu Feels It All

Bonnie Tsui Life

The Music of Time Passing

Federico Perelmuter Southwest Review

The Trauma Merchants

Benjamin Studebaker Cracks in Postmodernity

Obsolescence as a Way of Life

Madeleine Baker Commonweal

UT-Austin’s Worthy Experiment

Jack Butler WSJ Free Expression

The ‘State of Contemporary Literature’ Essay

Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters

An Unlikely Contemplative

Mike St. Thomas Los Angeles Review of Books

Will Hollywood Hide the Conservative Themes of 'Dune'

Mark Judge Chronicles

Network Effects

Daniel Zamora New Left Review

B-sides: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Adolescent”

Chloë Kitzinger Public Books

'Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life' Is Dishy And Definitive

Max Pearl Defector

No Longer on Speaking Terms

James Butler-Gruett Cleveland Review of Books

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Get Real Books: Not on Our Watch

Podcast: Terminal Crises by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

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