Unbowed but Gravely Wounded Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, ‘Knife,’ describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality. Paul Berman 3 Jun 2024 · 15 min read
The Problem with Utopias The history of utopian fiction proves that we can’t even imagine a better world. Ewan Morrison 23 May 2024 · 16 min read
Imposing Order on Grief Rob Henderson's 'Troubled' is a disjointed book, but provides valuable testimony to the importance of a stable childhood. Iona Italia 22 May 2024 · 23 min read
A History of Stunts Ryan Gosling’s new film is a love letter to an under-appreciated art. Allan Stratton 17 May 2024 · 9 min read
Analyst or Moralist? The increasingly political nature of cultural criticism does a disservice to the arts, to artists, and to criticism itself. James Jackson 15 May 2024 · 11 min read
Less Than Half ‘A Man in Full’ One of US television’s most experienced and talented writers has made a mess of Tom Wolfe’s second novel. Kevin Mims 13 May 2024 · 24 min read
Showdown in Champagne In the tenth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the epic 451 C.E. battle that pitted Attila the Hun against Gaul’s Roman and Gothic defenders. Herbert Bushman 10 May 2024 · 18 min read
The Religious Instinct in a Godless World The religious urge is born into nearly every child. And when we do not inherit a belief system, we build our own temples. Megan Gafford 9 May 2024 · 12 min read
How French Intellectuals Ruined the West Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained. Helen Pluckrose 7 May 2024 · 18 min read
The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare Denialism Against conspiracist trends, there is an obligation on defenders of a liberal society to uphold the integrity of its intellectual methods. Oliver Kamm 2 May 2024 · 25 min read
Disorder in Heaven The end of greatness in heavyweight combat sports. Alexander Blum 30 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
The Wendat World In the 19th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how Indigenous societies greeted the French influx of the early seventeenth century. Greg Koabel 29 Apr 2024 · 23 min read
American Carnage Alex Garland’s spectacular new film ‘Civil War’ is a warning of what can happen to democracies when civil society collapses. Allan Stratton 18 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022) After half a decade of critical adulation, Godard’s career slumped into doctrinaire Maoism, bitterness, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance. It never recovered. Charlotte Allen 16 Apr 2024 · 36 min read
Desire and Ambition Today, most of John Braine’s work is out of print and forgotten. But he was an underrated writer, unafraid to confront the complexities of masculine sexuality with terse precision, self-deprecation, and emotional candour. Brad Strotten 13 Apr 2024 · 11 min read