Art and Culture - Quillette (Page 5)

Is G Flip A Woman?

If we siphon off all female diversity into categories like 'non-binary' we narrow the idea of what it means to be a woman.

Holly Lawford-Smith

20 Mar 2024 · 7 min read

The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars

Metamodernism conveys the experience of living in a world in which we feel comfortable oscillating between different perspectives.

Peter Clarke

20 Mar 2024 · 6 min read

An Unlikely Cinematic Triumph

Efforts to produce a worthy film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ seemed doomed to failure—until Denis Villeneuve gave us his two-part blockbuster.

Allan Stratton

15 Mar 2024 · 14 min read

China, the West, and The Three-Body Problem

The themes of Liu Cixin’s trilogy undermine his protestations of loyalty to the People’s Republic.

Jason Garshfield

15 Mar 2024 · 17 min read

Katie Herzog’s Plan B

In a new book, Katherine Brodsky explains how members of the ‘silenced majority’ find new audiences after enduring episodes of public mobbing.

Katherine Brodsky

11 Mar 2024 · 9 min read

A Love Letter to the Theatre

An interview with Sean Mathias, the director of a daring and original new film adaptation of ‘Hamlet.’

Hannah Gal

10 Mar 2024 · 12 min read

Attila Invictus

In the eighth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire.

Herbert Bushman

8 Mar 2024 · 19 min read

Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics

For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality.