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
The Girl of the Endless Summer How ‘Gidget’ helped to put surfing on the map. Kevin Mims 12 May 2023 · 20 min read
Little Liliths Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men. Marilyn Simon 12 May 2023 · 12 min read
Art’s Gender Hustle Any critic unable to tell great from good, passable from poor, is incompetent. The critic who refuses to do so for ideological reasons is compromised. Aidan Harte 9 May 2023 · 10 min read
Samantha Geimer and Emmanuelle Seigner in Conversation The two women most directly affected by the 1977 Polanski scandal discuss guilt, shame, feminism, #MeToo, the media, and the search for truth and understanding. Peggy Sastre 6 May 2023 · 29 min read
The World of the Iroquois In the third instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes the revolution in agriculture, politics, and war that would transform many Indigenous societies before the arrival of French explorers. Greg Koabel 4 May 2023 · 28 min read
Disquiet on the Western Front Edward Berger’s award-winning film is a deeply flawed adaptation that replaces the book’s complexity and humanity with hyperbolic surrealism and misanthropy. Alan S. Rome 4 May 2023 · 14 min read
