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
· 10 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 758 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 10 min read
The Inimitable Barry Humphries
Farewell to Australia’s best-known comic and social satirist.
Andrew Gleeson
· 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
· 20 min read
Orwell and Socialism
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
Michael C. Anderson
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 26 min read
The Real Reasons Why the English Department Died
Most professors would rather watch it die than reform.
Adam Ellwanger
· 9 min read
Remembering Rumpole
John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence.
Kevin Mims
· 19 min read
Don’t Let Cancellation Become Banal
Something terrible happens when art can’t reach audiences.
Nina Paley
· 5 min read