Master of Cinema
Éric Rohmer’s films demand patience and close attention, but they are immensely rewarding for those able to tolerate the absence of spectacle.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 24 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 768 posts
What Adolescence Gets Wrong
Adolescence is a moving work of art but a misleading representation of the challenges facing British boys.
Ari David Blaff
· 8 min read
Picture Perfect
Vincenzo Latronico’s prismatic novel ‘Perfection’ is a lament for the hopes and dreams of a generation reconfigured by the internet.
Andrew White
· 9 min read
The Emperor’s New Score
Classical music was one of the first fields to impose the self-censorship that now pervades so many areas of intellectual and cultural life.
Nicholas McRoberts
· 5 min read
Rumble on the Royal Mile
Scottish feminists are angry that an accomplished male sculptor has been commissioned to make a statue of a suffragette.
Aidan Harte
· 5 min read
Something I Need
A tribute to groundbreaking pop star Melanie Safka (1947–2024).
Dave Thompson
· 15 min read
The Many Faces of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’
Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.
Stewart Slater
· 9 min read
Nicholas II, Aššurbanipal, and Marco Polo Walk into a Bookstore…
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.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
Hamilton and the Left
Consigned to the political wilderness, progressives and left-liberals could do a lot worse than shed their disdain for patriotism.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
Gender Bending Mobster Mash
With ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Jacques Audiard created—intentionally or unintentionally—a subversive assault on every plank of the current transgender credo.
Charlotte Allen
· 16 min read
The Worst Racial Slur, In Context
Rare is the word that has antithetical meanings depending on the speaker and listener, the intent and reception. This is one such rarity.
Steve Salerno
· 15 min read
A Violent History Obscured
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.
Brad Strotten
· 7 min read
Slim Shady’s Blues
Eminem’s music helped him to cope with his own suffering. It also helped his listeners cope with theirs.
Samuel Kronen
· 10 min read
Scandalous Monogamy and Faithful Infidelity
On eros and marriage.
Marilyn Simon
· 12 min read
Peanuts in Perspective
Peanuts offered parables of existential angst and longing, described through small stories about the small affairs of small people.
George Case
· 7 min read