Books - Quillette (Page 8)

Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?

This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America.

Abigail Shrier

7 Nov 2020 · 9 min read

My Own Private Chateau—Pauline Réage's 'Story of O' Revisited

Our culture makes a well intentioned but dangerous error in taking every thought experiment, every utterance, every representation, every fantasy of sexual expression seriously.

Marilyn Simon

18 Oct 2020 · 15 min read

For Some Adjunct Professors, It's Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job

Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor

8 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the 'Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life'

Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality.

Matt Johnson

8 Oct 2020 · 15 min read

Analyst of Totalitarianism—Reading Simon Leys Today

One general conclusion from reading Leys is that although totalitarian movements are immensely dangerous, that doesn’t mean we should give the theories behind them much intellectual weight.

David Adler

28 Sep 2020 · 15 min read

Oscar Wilde’s UtopiaOscar Wilde’s Utopia

The novel’s composition is a bit cobbled, which Amis acknowledges when he says that he pities the reviewer who has to cross the whole thing front-to-back, recommending instead that the book be taken up at random and read in leaps and snatches.

Jared Marcel Pollen

25 Sep 2020 · 9 min read

Postmodernism: Some Corrections and Clarifications

Compared to the titans of modernism, postmodernists—despite a handful of interesting thinkers like Barthes and Derrida—are no more than garden gnomes.

Elena Shalneva

18 Sep 2020 · 8 min read

The Dishonest and Misogynistic Hate Campaign Against J.K. Rowling

And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.

Louise Perry

18 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

Corruption and Remorse—The Novels of a Watergate Conspirator

As an avid reader of pop fiction, I’m more partial to the Nixon administration than any other White House. The Reagan years may have produced more crooks, and the Trump years may have produced more chaos, but there is one measure by which the criminal and criminal-adjacent members of

Kevin Mims

17 Sep 2020 · 19 min read

Under the Frog: Why Tibor Fischer’s 1992 Booker-Nominated Novel May Have Found its Moment

Under the Frog was based on his Magyar parents, both of them basketball players who, in the wake of the doomed 1956 uprising against the Soviets, fled Hungary for Britain.

Robin Ashenden

9 Sep 2020 · 11 min read

At the Intersection of Art and Science: Revisiting EO Wilson’s 'Consilience'

Artists and scientists have a reductionist’s idea of one another and perceive the other as a threat.

Clint Margrave

9 Sep 2020 · 6 min read

The WEIRDest People in the World—A Review

WEIRD individuals are psychologically peculiar in a number of ways.

Alex Mackiel

8 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

'Science Fictions' Review: Begone, Science Swindlers

Science Fictions is engaging, story-led, and well-organised. It will equip my sad young friend to articulate what went wrong with his charity’s study on literacy and, as importantly, to do the next one well.

Rosalind Arden

21 Aug 2020 · 10 min read

Flannery O'Connor and the Ideological War on Literature

What cancel culture has just mown down isn’t simply Flannery O’Connor or her works, but our ability to view them through any other lens except that of doctrine.

Charlotte Allen

17 Aug 2020 · 13 min read

Chinese Science Fiction's Disaster Dystopias

Rather than the emergence of a China-dominated world order, as some in the West and many in Beijing propose, science fiction writers illuminate realities that could end up reprising the failures of the former Soviet Union.

Joel Kotkin

11 Aug 2020 · 9 min read