RealClearBooks September 23, 2025 Archives

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“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era

Inkoo Kang The New Yorker

The Movie of the Year Is Here

Dana Stevens Slate

Mirroring and Pseudo-Empathy

Catherine Liu Damage

American Students Are Getting Dumber

Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring

Loose Wires

Andrew Boryga Dwell

New Series: micro-seasons

Farahn Morgan Long Road Home

Finger-Wagging Won’t Win Over Gen Z

Matthew Wilson Compact

Against Flash Fiction

Alanna Schubach The Literarian Gazette

The Last Wave of British Bravado

John Aziz Café Américain

Requiem for a Zine

Hal Niedzviecki Quillette

On Jordan Castro’s 'Muscle Man'

Teddy Burnette Expat Press

AI, Impressionism, and the Fleeting Now

Denise S. Robbins The Metropolitan Review

Close Reading the Gospel of Luke

William Cain Close Reading

What Can Love Survive? On Vigdis Hjorth’s If Only

Dasha Sikmashvili Zona Motel

AI, Dignity, and the Defense of the American Family

Tim Estes Commonplace

Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased?

Ted Gioia The Honest Broker

The Great American Migration from Big Cities

Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations

‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ Never Takes Flight

Hamilton Cain LA Times

Cardi B Gets the Best Revenge

Craig Jenkins Vulture