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Quillette editor Jonathan Kay reviews three newly published history books about the Assyrian Empire, the fall of the Romanovs, and the travels of Marco Polo.
Consigned to the political wilderness, progressives and left-liberals could do a lot worse than shed their disdain for patriotism.
With ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Jacques Audiard created—intentionally or unintentionally—a subversive assault on every plank of the current transgender credo.
Rare is the word that has antithetical meanings depending on the speaker and listener, the intent and reception. This is one such rarity.
South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang’s literary experimentation thwarts rather than advances her professed concern for the suffering of everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Eminem’s music helped him to cope with his own suffering. It also helped his listeners cope with theirs.
On eros and marriage.
Peanuts offered parables of existential angst and longing, described through small stories about the small affairs of small people.
George R.R. Martin, the Strauss-Howe theory of history, and the failure of the Baby Boomers.
Richard Bernstein’s new book about Al Jolson and ‘The Jazz Singer’ offers a thoughtful reconsideration of an unfairly reviled cultural landmark.
Brady Corbet’s panoramic epic, ‘The Brutalist,’ may be technically brilliant, but it is a cheat and a fraud.
If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night.
A tribute to David Lynch (1946–2025).
Jodi Picoult’s latest novel is a ham-fisted expression of cultural rage, embodying the most anodyne values of corporate human-resources departments.
Against long odds and in the face of exclusionary casting, Anna May Wong bequeathed us an extraordinary cinematic legacy.