In From the Cold
Solzhenitsyn’s Ivan Denisovich at 60.
Robin Ashenden
· 15 min read
Murakami On Writing
In his new book, Murakami attempts to set the limits of what he wants people to know about him—and that isn’t much.
David S. Wills
· 11 min read
Twitter is Not the Town Square
Refashioning the private company as a legitimate town square would require more change than we realize.
Angel Eduardo
· 6 min read
How New Orleans Became a Hive of JFK Conspiracism
Jim Garrison’s theory of the presidential assassination was based on false evidence and homophobic paranoia. Yet many still believe he was right.
Michel Jacques Gagné
· 15 min read
Podcast #202: How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis about the fate of Nancy Spector, who lost her job at the pinnacle of the Manhattan art world amidst a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations by independent scholar Chaédria LaBouvier. In America, the summer of 2020 was revolutionary: noble goals
Quillette
· 1 min read
Startling Intimations of Greatness
As we await the release of Woody Allen’s 50th feature film, his biographer looks back on the career of one of America’s great cinematic artists.
David Evanier
· 26 min read
Quillette Weekly
Homelessness and deinstitutionalization, a skewed school census, and the months the Earth stood still.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
The Months the Earth Stood Still
Did humanity defeat a potentially devastating plague with relatively modest losses, or did the greater devastation come from the victory itself?
George Case
· 9 min read
Will It Be Different This Time?
It is starting to look like a question of when, not if, the Islamic Republic of Iran will fall.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
The Erasure of Women From Online Pregnancy Literature
After lugging around two fetuses that won’t stop kicking my bladder, I have no patience left for gender activists who pretend that men can give birth.
Elizabeth Emery
· 10 min read
Religious Permanence
The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain.
Bo Winegard
· 10 min read
Extraordinary Destiny
In a newly published book, a motivational speaker who works with female prisoners reflects on the life lessons she’s learned behind bars.
Phyllis Taylor
· 10 min read
Affirming Your Inner Fursona
For some, gender transition is just a way station en route to more exotic (and furrier) trans-species identities.
Steven Tucker
· 11 min read
Co-Opting Toronto’s Public Education System in the Name of Social Justice Activism
Why Canada’s largest school board is seeking to administer an ideologically skewed census to its students.
Ian Cooper
· 14 min read