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Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
Matthew Gasda’s new novel unfolds in a haze of empty dialogue and overwrought introspection.
Seduction and submission in the work of the Marquis de Sade.
‘Ragtime,’ E.L. Doctorow’s forgotten novel of Progressive Era New York, is a reminder of how much American politics have changed over the past century.
Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell.
A new collection of Murray Kempton’s articles reveals a thoughtful journalist whose politics were difficult to categorise.
Dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay talks to Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay about the three radioactive political topics that can derail an artist’s career.
Chimamanda Adichie’s new novel is refreshingly defiant of liberal orthodoxies.
What the Korean hit gets wrong about capitalism and right about government.
The first and largest mistake Douthat makes in his new book is to argue that faith and rationality are mutually supportive.
This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.
The Blues Brothers (1980) fostered a renewed appreciation of some of the best music America has ever produced.
Modern literature’s tiresome preoccupation with misery and victimhood is neglecting whole swathes of the human experience.
Of the six chemical elements necessary for life, phosphorus is the rarest. It determines what grows and shrinks, who lives and dies. By disrupting the planet’s phosphate cycle, unchecked factory farming could have apocalyptic consequences.
When British sculptor Thomas J Price explains that his “strategy of inclusion” will counter the “endless stream of limiting tropes and identities for Black people,” he is inadvertently mimicking totalitarian injunctions.