“These Songs Are Timeless”
Forty Years on, Dire Straits’ bassist John Illsley talks to Quillette about the band’s 1985 masterpiece, ‘Brothers in Arms.’
Hannah Gal
· 9 min read
Art & Culture
A collection of 864 posts
Cynicism and Cigarettes
Richard Linklater’s film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘À Bout de Souffle’ is a delight.
Charlotte Allen
· 17 min read
Defaming the Dead
Is telling lies about someone after they die okay if that someone was a very bad person?
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 6 min read
All the Nuzzi That’s Fit to Print
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
Valerie Pavilonis
· 10 min read
Is the Great Feminisation Inevitable?
We must act quickly to reverse illiberal trends among young men and women alike.
Gideon Scopes
· 10 min read
The Conned Artist
David Mamet’s new polemic is filled with muddled prose and muddled thought.
Graham Daseler
· 11 min read
Too Much Gilbert
The author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ has returned with a new memoir, which features all the usual problems with her writing writ large.
Charlotte Allen
· 22 min read
The Jewel in the Crown
‘The Man Who Would Be King’ turns fifty.
Graham Daseler
· 21 min read
Red Sheep
An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.
Ron Capshaw
· 11 min read
The Line Dividing Good and Evil
What we can learn from the moral and literary failings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and James Baldwin.
Megan Gafford
· 8 min read
Where Have All the Cultures Gone?
The homogenisation of culture begins with the loss of language.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 10 min read
A Journalism of Deception
A former BBC journalist explains how the corporation discarded impartial journalism and why we need a news revolution.
Graham Majin
· 15 min read
Folk, Feedback, and Fury
Neil Young is eighty.
David Cohen
· 16 min read
Holding Out for a Hero
From Achilles to Anakin Skywalker, the messiah myth has evolved from religious prophecy to cautionary tale.
Stewart Slater
· 12 min read
Power and Its Malcontents
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
Brian Stewart
· 25 min read