Books - Quillette (Page 3)

The Girl of the Endless Summer

How ‘Gidget’ helped to put surfing on the map.

Kevin Mims

12 May 2023 · 20 min read

The Man Who Invented the Modern Cop Novel

Joseph Wambaugh’s crime fiction has been much imitated but seldom equalled.

Kevin Mims

23 Apr 2023 · 20 min read

Orwell and Socialism

Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.

Michael C. Anderson

21 Apr 2023 · 7 min read

How Do We Define ‘Life’?

An excerpt from 'The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.'

Lawrence M. Krauss

17 Apr 2023 · 6 min read

Remembering Rumpole

John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence.

Kevin Mims

1 Apr 2023 · 19 min read

A Jolly Good Scoundrel

Three Cheers for Harry Flashman!

Graham Daseler

17 Mar 2023 · 15 min read

Hormones First. Research Later

A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children‘

Bernard Lane

14 Mar 2023 · 14 min read

Do We Still Need a Women’s Prize for Fiction?

It is time to consider retiring awards segregated by the sex of the author.

Josh Allan

10 Mar 2023 · 7 min read

The Eyes of Another

Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, ‘Crime and Punishment,’ offers a radical reinterpretation of guilt and redemption.

Marilyn Simon

31 Jan 2023 · 8 min read

In Memoriam

A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022.

Kevin Mims

20 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

How Do They Know This?

An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.

Christopher J. Snowdon

8 Dec 2022 · 6 min read

Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.

Jeffrey Herf

2 Dec 2022 · 19 min read

In From the Cold

Solzhenitsyn’s Ivan Denisovich at 60.

Robin Ashenden

25 Nov 2022 · 15 min read

Murakami On Writing

In his new book, Murakami attempts to set the limits of what he wants people to know about him—and that isn’t much.

David S. Wills

24 Nov 2022 · 11 min read

The Real Star of MAS*H

A personal tribute to the overlooked genius of writer W.C. Heinz.

Kevin Mims

11 Oct 2022 · 13 min read

The Girl of the Endless Summer

The Man Who Invented the Modern Cop Novel

Orwell and Socialism

How Do We Define ‘Life’?

Remembering Rumpole

A Jolly Good Scoundrel

Hormones First. Research Later

Do We Still Need a Women’s Prize for Fiction?

The Eyes of Another

In Memoriam

How Do They Know This?

Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In From the Cold

Murakami On Writing

The Real Star of M*A*S*H

The Real Star of MAS*H