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In the eleventh instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain fundamentally redirected France’s transatlantic colonial project
Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity.
The Western canon was not an unchanging set of texts, but an ongoing conversation that lasted thousands of years—enabling each generation to build on the intellectual heritage of the past.
How the bronze crucifix in the Art Gallery of Ontario got from seventeenth-century Rome to twenty-first century Toronto is an intriguing tale, but it is a narrative filled with gaps.
A perennially controversial bestseller turns 65.
Fantasy is more popular than ever, and this is the direct consequence of Tolkien’s success. But the genre has survived by adapting, and in an age of secularism, that process has involved evaporating the religious themes Tolkien cared about so deeply.
It is easy for a successful writer to advise that career success isn’t that important. Would a failed writer agree?
In the tenth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, historian Greg Koabel describes the early—and tragically unsuccessful—French efforts to create a permanent colony
Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement.
In the ninth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how the late 16th-century fur trade developed amid a disrupted Indigenous geopolitical landscape
The musical legacy of Robbie Robertson is a monument to the possibilities of American song.
A new collection of essays from the mid-70s offers a frustrating glimpse of the author’s strengths and weaknesses.
Menacing, exuberant, eccentric, and ambitious—Dylan’s first evangelical record turns two-score and four.
This 1949 primer shows us there’s nothing new about today’s controversies about free speech on campus.
Nolan’s kaleidoscopic biopic may be his most ambitious picture to date.