Long Read - Quillette (Page 2)

Belafonte Reappraised

Neither hagiographers nor haters of the late musician, actor, and activist have managed to get him right.

Ronald Radosh

20 May 2023 · 17 min read

Samantha Geimer and Emmanuelle Seigner in Conversation

The two women most directly affected by the 1977 Polanski scandal discuss guilt, shame, feminism, #MeToo, the media, and the search for truth and understanding.

Peggy Sastre

6 May 2023 · 29 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

Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide

Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate.

Aaron Hanna

13 Apr 2023 · 24 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 · 18 min read

Heidegger’s Downfall

Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance.

Jeffrey Herf

22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read

The Liberal Internationalist

A fine new book argues that the contemporary Left could learn a lot from the life and work of the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens.

Michael J. Totten

20 Feb 2023 · 18 min read

Aristotle (and the Stoics): An Interview with John Sellars

A new book by John Sellars explores the life’s work and extraordinary legacy of the man he has provocatively called “the single most important human being ever to have lived.”

Riley Moore

19 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

Mearsheimer: Rigor or Reaction?

What John J. Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine, international affairs, and much else besides.

Matt Johnson

15 Feb 2023 · 21 min read

Justice in Stockholm

Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.

Roya Hakakian

7 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

Whatever Happened to Light Verse?

A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition.

Kevin Mims

21 Jan 2023 · 20 min read

Scenes from a Marriage

In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?