Art and Culture - Quillette

Composite portrait of Mia Goth's face in her three roles in the trilogy.

Texas Porn Star Massacres

Ti West’s clever and original ‘X’ trilogy is elevated postmodern horror at its finest and its director’s best work to date.

Allan Stratton

24 Jul 2024 · 12 min read

Philip Roth, seated, hands behind head. He's in a suit. Dark hair and thick eyebrows.

Rereading Philip Roth Today

Roth’s early works portray Jewish characters who are fearful of antisemitism in America as paranoid. He later changed his mind—and so have I.

Peter C. Herman

23 Jul 2024 · 12 min read

Map detail of the Hudson River Valley, showing natives in a canoe, as well as beavers, turkeys and a mink

Dutchmen on the Hudson

In the 21st instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how the arrival of Dutch fur traders sparked an upheaval in regional Indigenous geopolitics.

Greg Koabel

20 Jul 2024 · 19 min read

The Man Who Wasn’t There

Richard Morton Jack’s comprehensive new biography of Nick Drake offers a glimpse of a brilliant but troubled soul.

Matt Hanson

19 Jul 2024 · 10 min read

Vincent Price in a black and white film still, holding a wooden object, with a dining table in the background

Abiding Legends

Richard Matheson, George R. Stewart, and the birth of the Calipocalypse.

Kevin Mims

9 Jul 2024 · 23 min read

Rogers Waters, dressed in black, looking manic, against a background of a TV studio wall.

Art over Man: The Roger Waters Test Case

When we create art, we are our best selves, better than the selves we are outside of art.

Thomas P. Balazs

4 Jul 2024 · 9 min read

A modern model depicting Samuel de Champlain’s 1608 Habitation at the site of what is now Quebec City.

The Birth of Quebec

In the 20th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain and Récollet missionaries established a fledgling French colony in what we now call Quebec City.

Greg Koabel

4 Jul 2024 · 17 min read

A close up of Robyn Hitchcock's face in black and white with a microphone covering his mouth.

England’s Daydreaming

Robyn Hitchcock’s new memoir takes us back to 1967—a year the British singer-songwriter never outgrew.

Dave Thompson

2 Jul 2024 · 12 min read

Illuminated manuscript style illustration of a coronation.

France’s Founding Fathers: A Review of ‘House of Lilies’

In a new book, Justine Firnhaber-Baker tells the story of the Capetian dynasty (987–1328), whose rulers stitched a set of medieval duchies and counties into a single kingdom.

Charlotte Allen

26 Jun 2024 · 20 min read

People on a trans-rights protest march, with flags, megaphone, banners.

The Roots of Progressive Radicalism: Nellie Bowles vs. Musa al-Gharbi

In two new books, a journalist and an academic offer competing explanations for the extremist ideological tendencies within left-wing cultural, academic, activist, and political institutions.