‘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
Art and Culture
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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
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
Andrew Hammel
· 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
· 45 min read
Belafonte Reappraised
Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right.
Ronald Radosh
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 10 min read
The Girl of the Endless Summer
How ‘Gidget’ helped to put surfing on the map.
Kevin Mims
· 20 min read