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
The Sardonic Inferno At its best, Amis’s fiction broke open the locked door behind which our culture tries to keep its skeletons hidden. Matt Hanson 2 Jun 2023 · 7 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man. David S. Wills 1 Jun 2023 · 15 min read
The Hammett and Chandler of Gay Detective Fiction How the books of George Baxt and Joseph Hansen changed the genre. Kevin Mims 30 May 2023 · 17 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made, and why advocacy journalism must be treated with caution. Andrew Hammel 22 May 2023 · 53 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict. Andrew Hammel 22 May 2023 · 45 min read
Belafonte Reappraised Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right. Ronald Radosh 20 May 2023 · 18 min read
Embracing the Passion and Perfection of Chess While claims of skill transfer may be overblown, there is still benefit to be had in the tiny, claustrophobic world of the game. Iona Italia 20 May 2023 · 12 min read
John Cabot’s New Found Land In the fourth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes how the quest for cod and a possible passage to China sparked England’s first transatlantic ventures Greg Koabel 19 May 2023 · 33 min read
Bastardizing Beethoven From Fidelio to The Soldier’s Tale, some of history’s greatest compositions are being co-opted as social-justice propaganda Heather Mac Donald 17 May 2023 · 10 min read
