Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had
Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.
Robin Ashenden
· 12 min read
A Life in the Fray
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.
Jeffrey Herf
· 22 min read
Come for the Whales. Stay for the Fur
In the seventh instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how 16th-Century Basque whalers created a thriving industry in the waters off Newfoundland
Greg Koabel
· 23 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms
The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.
Lea Booth
· 8 min read
Animal Liberation Later
Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case.
Matt Johnson
· 13 min read
Land of Frost and Scurvy
In the sixth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s disastrous first attempt to set up a permanent colony in Quebec.
Greg Koabel
· 30 min read
The Sorrow and the Self-Pity
Michel Houellebecq’s new memoir reveals a man quick to find fault with others but slow to accept responsibility for his woes.
RJ Smith
· 8 min read
Clash of the Titans
Politics encourages giant-building not aesthetics.
Aidan Harte
· 8 min read
What Lies Beneath
In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises.
Sean Welsh
· 14 min read
Chaucer’s Bawdy Broad
More than six centuries after The Canterbury Tales first appeared, the Wife of Bath still has lessons to teach about love, sex, marriage, and—yes—feminism
Charlotte Allen
· 24 min read
‘The Princess Bride’ at 50
A look back at William Goldman’s bonkers metafictional novel ‘The Princess Bride,’ which later became a much-loved family film.
Kevin Mims
· 18 min read
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract
How dissent is policed in social science.
Jukka Savolainen
· 10 min read
Roald Dahl’s Forgotten Novel, 75 Years On
Before finding fame as a children’s author, Dahl penned the first novel on nuclear war to be published after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Christian Kriticos
· 14 min read
Aliens...Again!
This time, they always say, it could be different.
Michael Shermer
· 10 min read
The First Stone
Philip Schofield and his critics could both learn a lot from Oscar Wilde’s prison memoir.
Andrew Gleeson
· 10 min read