What History Teaches Us About the Importance of Academic Freedom
This 1949 primer shows us there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus.
James Huffman
· 12 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 726 posts
Dare to Be Brilliant
Nolan’s kaleidoscopic biopic may be his most ambitious picture to date.
Brad Strotten
· 4 min read
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
· 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
· 10 min read
The Eyes of the Storm
A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney.
Hannah Gal
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 8 min read
Clash of the Titans
Politics encourages giant-building not aesthetics.
Aidan Harte
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 14 min read
The First Stone
Philip Schofield and his critics could both learn a lot from Oscar Wilde’s prison memoir.
Andrew Gleeson
· 10 min read