Lale Gül’s autobiographical novel about a young Muslim woman living in the Netherlands has led to death threats and ostracism. But it is a work of admirable intelligence and courage.
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
Todd Phillips’s unfairly reviled sequel raises interesting questions about the artistic licence auteurs take with well-known properties.
Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths.
Art in public spaces will always be scrutinised for the propriety of its iconography, and it will remain under attack as long as its guardians are willing to pander to the narcissistic impulses of the activists.
The journey of two novels from mind to page to silver screen.
Steve Albini and the new problem with music.
As the Bad Seeds begin touring their acclaimed new album, ‘Wild God,’ Quillette chatted with Australian academic and “Caveologist” Tanya Dalziell about the artist’s music, ideas, and enduring appeal.
After Duchamp, the art world came to view the pursuit of beauty as naïve and gravitated toward political art in their search for meaning. But this is a Faustian bargain: you can have meaning, but you do not get to make it for yourself.
Springsteen and the rock critics.
Dostoevsky, Alice Munro, and the nature of fiction—what does our inability to forgive do to our ability to confess?
The caring industry’s wellness and positivity products cannot provide self-esteem to those who do not already have it.
Sacha Guitry disdained cinema as an art form, but with a slew of recent Blu-ray releases, his acidic comedies are finally receiving the attention they deserve.
Elvis Costello at three score and ten.
John Krasinski’s dystopian horror trilogy imagines a biblical plague visited on the din of modernity.