Art and Culture - Quillette

The Approaching Disintegration of Academia

Universities cannot withstand the assault on objective truth.

Mark Goldblatt

7 Feb 2023 · 7 min read

The Crack-Up

How individual and civilisational identities collapse.

Peter Hughes

2 Feb 2023 · 9 min read

The Eyes of Another

Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, ‘Crime and Punishment,’ offers a radical reinterpretation of guilt and redemption.

Marilyn Simon

31 Jan 2023 · 7 min read

Boring Art, Impotent Politics

Mixing aesthetics and activism does a disservice to both.

Julia Friedman

27 Jan 2023 · 11 min read

Whatever Happened to Light Verse?

A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition.

Kevin Mims

21 Jan 2023 · 20 min read

A Bore of a Blockbuster

Next time, one hopes, James Cameron will focus as much on the story he tells as the means he uses to tell it.

Allan Stratton

19 Jan 2023 · 7 min read

Scenes from a Marriage

In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?

Charlotte Allen

18 Jan 2023 · 70 min read

The Inner Life of Transcendent Genius

In ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ Dylan contemplates himself and the art form of which he is the acknowledged master.

Benjamin Kerstein

13 Jan 2023 · 12 min read

A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference

The urgency of our mission was reflected in the list of attendees—many of whom had been laid off, mobbed, or ostracized because of their research.

Elizabeth Weiss

11 Jan 2023 · 14 min read

Stuck in the Middle (of Academia)

Academia is a mess, but there is still hope.

Christopher J. Ferguson

1 Jan 2023 · 11 min read

In Memoriam

A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022.

Kevin Mims

20 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

Paranoid Pop

A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists.

David Cohen

19 Dec 2022 · 19 min read

The Radicalization of the Film Canon

Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll is a sign of the times.

Adrian Nguyen

18 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

In From the Cold

Solzhenitsyn’s Ivan Denisovich at 60.

Robin Ashenden

25 Nov 2022 · 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

24 Nov 2022 · 11 min read