Frobisher’s Failed Arctic Gambit In the eighth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the legacy of Martin Frobisher, a brave explorer who antagonized the Inuit while harvesting worthless minerals Greg Koabel 21 Jul 2023 · 38 min read
Bob Ross, Populist Artist A Netflix documentary and a new film about the beloved American TV painter explore a life marked by popular success and personal betrayal. Julia Friedman 19 Jul 2023 · 10 min read
The Eyes of the Storm A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney. Hannah Gal 18 Jul 2023 · 14 min read
Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale. Robin Ashenden 11 Jul 2023 · 12 min read
A Life in the Fray A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost. Jeffrey Herf 10 Jul 2023 · 22 min read
Come for the Whales. Stay for the Fur In the seventh instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how 16th-Century Basque whalers created a thriving industry in the waters off Newfoundland Greg Koabel 8 Jul 2023 · 23 min read
Land of Frost and Scurvy In the sixth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s disastrous first attempt to set up a permanent colony in Quebec. Greg Koabel 29 Jun 2023 · 30 min read
The Sorrow and the Self-Pity Michel Houellebecq’s new memoir reveals a man quick to find fault with others but slow to accept responsibility for his woes. RJ Smith 26 Jun 2023 · 8 min read
Clash of the Titans Politics encourages giant-building not aesthetics. Aidan Harte 24 Jun 2023 · 8 min read
Chaucer’s Bawdy Broad More than six centuries after The Canterbury Tales first appeared, the Wife of Bath still has lessons to teach about love, sex, marriage, and—yes—feminism Charlotte Allen 20 Jun 2023 · 24 min read
‘The Princess Bride’ at 50 A look back at William Goldman’s bonkers metafictional novel ‘The Princess Bride,’ which later became a much-loved family film. Kevin Mims 19 Jun 2023 · 18 min read
Roald Dahl’s Forgotten Novel, 75 Years On Before finding fame as a children’s author, Dahl penned the first novel on nuclear war to be published after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Christian Kriticos 12 Jun 2023 · 14 min read
The First Stone Philip Schofield and his critics could both learn a lot from Oscar Wilde’s prison memoir. Andrew Gleeson 8 Jun 2023 · 10 min read
An Egregious Misreading of History In his first book, Philip Ewell employs mistranslations and deceptively edited quotations to defame Viennese-Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker. Barry Wiener 7 Jun 2023 · 17 min read
Up the St. Lawrence In the fifth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Jacques Cartier’s first encounters with the Mi’kmaq and Iroquois. Greg Koabel 6 Jun 2023 · 23 min read
