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Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men.
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.
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.
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.
Edward Berger’s award-winning film is a deeply flawed adaptation that replaces the book’s complexity and humanity with hyperbolic surrealism and misanthropy.
The question of whether an artwork is offensive is now determined by the least generous interpretation of the most sensitive viewer.
Farewell to Australia’s best-known comic and social satirist.
Joseph Wambaugh’s crime fiction has been much imitated but seldom equalled.
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
In the second instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes how Leif Erikson ended up in Newfoundland
A tribute to Chris Bailey, the late frontman and co-founder of Australian punk band the Saints, who died a year ago today.
We live in a transitional period, when the possibility of being duped by incomprehensible intelligences—and thereby duping ourselves—has grown exponentially.
In a new Quillette series, historian and podcaster Greg Koabel traces the global origins of the land we now call Canada.
Most professors would rather watch it die than reform.
John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence.