Champlain Gives It Another Go In the twelfth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s halting efforts to create a permanent Canadian settlement in the early 1600s. Greg Koabel 27 Sep 2023 · 29 min read
‘Augie March’ Turns 70 An Interview with Saul Bellow’s biographer Zachary Leader. Riley Moore 22 Sep 2023 · 12 min read
Strange New Sci Fi If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps good fiction is the first tragedy of culture war. Johnny Schmidt 21 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
Huns to the North. Romans to the South In the second instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the events that sparked the fateful Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire. Herbert Bushman 19 Sep 2023 · 25 min read
Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one. Lawrence M. Krauss 18 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
History Matters A restoration of history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid, and often insane political environment we now inhabit. Joel Kotkin 14 Sep 2023 · 15 min read
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous. Heather Mac Donald 11 Sep 2023 · 8 min read
A Cartographer for the Ages In the eleventh instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain fundamentally redirected France’s transatlantic colonial project Greg Koabel 9 Sep 2023 · 22 min read
Israel’s Everywoman at War Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity. Michael Oren 8 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
Our Lost Classical Learning The Western canon was not an unchanging set of texts, but an ongoing conversation that lasted thousands of years—enabling each generation to build on the intellectual heritage of the past. Brian Kaller 5 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
But is it a Bernini? A Tale of Contested Identity in the Art World How the bronze crucifix in the Art Gallery of Ontario got from seventeenth-century Rome to twenty-first century Toronto is an intriguing tale, but it is a narrative filled with gaps. Jonathan Salem-Wiseman 4 Sep 2023 · 10 min read
Remembering ‘Exodus’ A perennially controversial bestseller turns 65. Kevin Mims 4 Sep 2023 · 17 min read
Misreading Middle-Earth: Tolkien and the Contemporary Reader Fantasy is more popular than ever, and this is the direct consequence of Tolkien’s success. But the genre has survived by adapting, and in an age of secularism, that process has involved evaporating the religious themes Tolkien cared about so deeply. Josh Allan 2 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
On Marriage and Happiness It is easy for a successful writer to advise that career success isn’t that important. Would a failed writer agree? Kevin Mims 26 Aug 2023 · 8 min read
‘New France’ Stumbles Out of the Gate In the tenth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, historian Greg Koabel describes the early—and tragically unsuccessful—French efforts to create a permanent colony Greg Koabel 26 Aug 2023 · 19 min read
