The Sardonic Inferno
At its best, Amis’s fiction broke open the locked door behind which our culture tries to keep its skeletons hidden.
Matt Hanson
· 7 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz
An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man.
David S. Wills
· 15 min read
The Hammett and Chandler of Gay Detective Fiction
How the books of George Baxt and Joseph Hansen changed the genre.
Kevin Mims
· 17 min read
A Declaration of Decadence
Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress.
Robert Zubrin
· 7 min read
Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline
By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 13 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus
Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
Andrew Hammel
· 53 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case
A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
Andrew Hammel
· 45 min read
Belafonte Reappraised
Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right.
Ronald Radosh
· 18 min read
Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess
While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game.
Iona Italia
· 12 min read
John Cabot’s New Found Land
In the fourth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes how the quest for cod and a possible passage to China sparked England’s first transatlantic ventures
Greg Koabel
· 33 min read
Bastardizing Beethoven
From Fidelio to The Soldier’s Tale, some of history’s greatest compositions are being co-opted as social-justice propaganda
Heather Mac Donald
· 10 min read
The Girl of the Endless Summer
How ‘Gidget’ helped to put surfing on the map.
Kevin Mims
· 20 min read
AI: Let’s Worry About the Right Things
There are valid concerns and there are unfounded fears. Let us separate the two.
Brendan Craig
· 13 min read
Little Liliths
Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men.
Marilyn Simon
· 12 min read
Art’s Gender Hustle
Any critic unable to tell great from good, passable from poor, is incompetent. The critic who refuses to do so for ideological reasons is compromised.
Aidan Harte
· 10 min read