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
Nudity and Nonconsensual Viewing The question of whether an artwork is offensive is now determined by the least generous interpretation of the most sensitive viewer. Julia Friedman 28 Apr 2023 · 10 min read
The Inimitable Barry Humphries Farewell to Australia’s best-known comic and social satirist. Andrew Gleeson 25 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
The Man Who Invented the Modern Cop Novel Joseph Wambaugh’s crime fiction has been much imitated but seldom equalled. Kevin Mims 23 Apr 2023 · 20 min read
Orwell and Socialism Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology. Michael C. Anderson 21 Apr 2023 · 7 min read
Canada’s Norse Interregnum In the second instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes how Leif Erikson ended up in Newfoundland Greg Koabel 20 Apr 2023 · 26 min read
Holy Roller A tribute to Chris Bailey, the late frontman and co-founder of Australian punk band the Saints, who died a year ago today. David Cohen 9 Apr 2023 · 11 min read
Kazuo Ishiguro and the Uncanny Cascade We live in a transitional period, when the possibility of being duped by incomprehensible intelligences—and thereby duping ourselves—has grown exponentially. Anthony Eagan 7 Apr 2023 · 17 min read
Canada’s First Inhabitants In a new Quillette series, historian and podcaster Greg Koabel traces the global origins of the land we now call Canada. Greg Koabel 5 Apr 2023 · 26 min read
The Real Reasons Why the English Department Died Most professors would rather watch it die than reform. Adam Ellwanger 5 Apr 2023 · 9 min read
