In the ninth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how the late 16th-century fur trade developed amid a disrupted Indigenous geopolitical landscape
The musical legacy of Robbie Robertson is a monument to the possibilities of American song.
Much has been written about the problems caused by therapy when it fails. Less discussed are the problems it can cause when it succeeds.
When should we allow a person to hasten her own death?
We must free our artificial descendants to adapt to their new worlds and choose what they will become.
A new collection of essays from the mid-70s offers a frustrating glimpse of the author’s strengths and weaknesses.
Menacing, exuberant, eccentric, and ambitious—Dylan’s first evangelical record turns two-score and four.
A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.
This 1949 primer shows us there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus.
Nolan’s kaleidoscopic biopic may be his most ambitious picture to date.
In the eighth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the legacy of Martin Frobisher, a brave explorer who antagonized the Inuit while harvesting worthless minerals
A Netflix documentary and a new film about the beloved American TV painter explore a life marked by popular success and personal betrayal.
A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney.
Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.
A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.