Books - Quillette (Page 12)

Pop Fiction's Rich History of #MeToo Drama

Lately, the very serious people who write about TV and film and books for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Times have been tripping over themselves to heap praise on highbrow novelists, filmmakers, and screenwriters who have used their platforms to tackle issues such as rape

Kevin Mims

19 Jun 2019 · 12 min read

Conformity: The Power of Social Influences—A Review

We are natural conformers because, more often than not, it keeps us alive and in good standing with our peers.

Vincent Harinam / Rob Henderson

18 Jun 2019 · 9 min read

'The Guarded Gate' Review: Elites and Their Eugenics Projects

The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.

Jack B. Nimble

17 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

On Its 70th Anniversary, Nineteen Eighty-Four Still Feels Important and Inspiring

Nineteen-Eighty Four, whose first publication took place 70 years ago today, is itself a sort of anti-novel, one that undermines its own dramatic tension in a way that might now be described as postmodern.

Jonathan Kay

8 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

Goodbye, Herman Wouk

On May 17th, American novelist Herman Wouk died, just ten days before he was due to turn 104. If Ernest Hemingway’s life and career had been as long as those of Herman Wouk, he’d have been alive as recently as 2003 and he’d have published a book

Kevin Mims

18 May 2019 · 8 min read

The Case for Nabokov

An even moderately careful reading of Lolita should make it quite clear that it’s anything but a “celebration” of child rape.

Cathy Young

6 May 2019 · 13 min read

Policing the Creative Imagination

If sensitivity readers become a publishing institution, they will only incentivize more cautious, conservative, and ideologically homogenous books.

Craig DeLancey

5 May 2019 · 9 min read

The Impassable Road to Redemption

Not only is no-one allowed to change for the better anymore, no one is even allowed to be understood, much less forgiven.

Clint Margrave

24 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars

While Hanson is good in setting out the causes of Trump’s victory, he falls short when it comes to making recommendations for the future.

Sumantra Maitra

22 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times

Faludy’s greatest weapon—what really allows him to swat away the mosquitoes of passing ideologies—is his delight in sensual pleasures.

Robin Ashenden

19 Apr 2019 · 6 min read

Politics and the Practice of Warm-Heartedness

Brooks blames America’s bitter politics on the “outrage industrial complex”: the media, politicians and commentators who entice voters, attract television viewers, and sell books and event tickets premised on hatred of the other side.