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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.
In the eighth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the legacy of Martin Frobisher, a brave explorer who antagonized the Inuit while harvesting worthless minerals
A Netflix documentary and a new film about the beloved American TV painter explore a life marked by popular success and personal betrayal.
A historic diary in pictures, which just happens to belong to Sir Paul McCartney.
Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.
A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.
In the seventh instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how 16th-Century Basque whalers created a thriving industry in the waters off Newfoundland
In the sixth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s disastrous first attempt to set up a permanent colony in Quebec.
Michel Houellebecq’s new memoir reveals a man quick to find fault with others but slow to accept responsibility for his woes.