RealClearBooks October 1, 2025 Archives

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The Cars’ Deep Influence on the Future of Music

Steven Hyden The Ringer

“The Smashing Machine” Pulls Its Punches

Richard Brody The New Yorker

A Muscle Man’s Message to America’s Lost Boys

Josh Code The Free Press

The Art of Winning (And Losing)

Olivia Cheng The Metropolitan Review

If the Gumshoe Fits

Christian Lorentzen Bookforum

The Shallow Future Is Already Here

Santiago Ramos Wisdom of Crowds

A Halfway Step to Nature

Paul Franz ashes and sparks

MICHAEL ROBERT LISKA with Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers The Brooklyn Rail

The Legend of Zohran

James Pogue Vanity Fair

Paul Kingsnorth Wants Us to Worship Nature

Alexander Nazaryan New York Times

The Last Reader: A Fantasia for Cynthia Ozick

Charlie Tyson Liberties

An Ozempic in Every Lunch Box

Hannah Rowan The New Atlantis

The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time

Multiple authors Pitchfork

The Front Porch

The Editors County Highway

On Thomas Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket”

Cobi Chiodo Powell Cleveland Review of Books

INTERVIEW: Jordan Castro by Brian Allen Carr

Brian Allen Carr Zona Motel

Chad Powers Is the Ted Lasso of College Football

Alex Kirshner Slate

The Flag of Ahab

Charles Baxter Lapham's Quarterly

From Lawfare to Barfare

Benjamin Weingarten RealClearInvestigations

The Stripped-Down Costumes of Cult Classic ‘Showgirls’

Scarlett Harris CNN

K-Pop Demons Hunting Teenage Dreams

Benjamin Studebaker Cracks in Postmodernity