Games and Thrones The real history of the era portrayed in Gladiator II is much more interesting, tumultuous, and murderous than Scott’s simpleminded yarn. Charlotte Allen 4 Dec 2024 · 13 min read
New York Narcissism Nikkitha Bakshani’s debut novel ‘Ghost Chilli’ is an ideologically confused work that seems to endorse the racial essentialism it purports to satirise. Brad Strotten 19 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
The Elephant Man in an Era of Cancel Culture: Quillette Cetera Episode 19 Crowds love the irreverence of The Marvellous Elephant Man Musical, but activists want it boycotted. Zoe Booth 2 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
Narcissism and Fraudulence Intensive con artistry may be a narcissistic strategy for the avoidance of self-knowledge. Anthony Eagan 12 Nov 2022 · 12 min read
Remix and Float Downstream Giles Martin has reinvigorated the Beatles’ masterpiece, a record brimming with ideas, confidence, and insouciant courage. Christopher J. Snowdon 8 Nov 2022 · 11 min read
French Nobels Dynamite, literature, and the rise of the engaged intellectual. Robert Zaretsky 30 Oct 2022 · 10 min read
FDR and the Holocaust A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president. Ronald Radosh 27 Oct 2022 · 26 min read
Poetic Justice How an octogenarian artist defied curatorial bureaucracy. Julia Friedman 25 Oct 2022 · 9 min read
A Strange and Brutal Country Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse. Christopher J. Snowdon 24 Oct 2022 · 7 min read
The Real Star of M*A*S*H A personal tribute to the overlooked genius of writer W.C. Heinz. Kevin Mims 11 Oct 2022 · 13 min read
Peter Straub, 1943–2022 Farewell to another of the Big Six novelists from the Golden Age of American horror fiction. Kevin Mims 12 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
The Striver’s Curse A review of Arthur C. Brooks’s new book, ‘From Strength to Strength.’ Ari David Blaff 16 Aug 2022 · 6 min read
Go Ask Beatrice: Notes on a Dishonest Decade An outstanding new book tells the story of a wildly successful literary hoax. But it was just one of many. Kevin Mims 2 Aug 2022 · 29 min read
Guilty and Insane Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility. Daniel Kriegman 29 Jul 2022 · 20 min read
Lost Soul Behind Bars The untold story of Upheaval, a prison band that recorded one of the most sought-after soul singles of the 1970s. Max Wilson 28 Jul 2022 · 21 min read
