Long Read - Quillette (Page 5)

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 · 28 min read

Guilty and Insane

Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.

Daniel Kriegman

29 Jul 2022 · 19 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

The Delia Demolition

Why is the Atlantic slinging mud at the 72-year-old author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ on the eve of the film’s release?

Kevin Mims

19 Jul 2022 · 19 min read

Cognitive Distortions

How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.

Shuichi Tezuka

18 Jul 2022 · 23 min read

Honorable Men

Falcone, Borsellino, and the legacy of Italy’s long and bitter war on organized crime.

Maura Cremin

17 Jul 2022 · 20 min read

Why Not Polygamy?

Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?

Cheryl Mendelson

28 May 2022 · 21 min read

Roya Hakakian and How to Speak About What No One Wants to Hear

I. Roya Hakakian is an American writer from Iran who commands a distinctive ability to speak about large and horrific events in a chipper tone that appears to underplay the horrific quality and, by apparently underplaying, ends up subtly underlining. It is an artful tone. It is cagey, charming, disarming,

Paul Berman

27 May 2022 · 33 min read

Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel

The abortion novels that proliferated in the late 1960s were filled with characters who are forced by carelessness and circumstance to make the most agonizing of personal choices.

Kevin Mims

5 May 2022 · 26 min read

Deterrence After Ukraine—A Critical Analysis

On February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine with the explicit goal of eliminating its existence as an independent country. Why was Russian President Vladimir Putin not deterred by the risk of a response from the West/NATO? This question requires a review of the fundamentals of conventional deterrence, neglected by the

Shmuel Bar

24 Mar 2022 · 22 min read

The Transmogrification of Harvey Weinstein

I was a good friend of Harvey Weinstein during his early years as a concert promoter, before he became Harvey Weinstein, movie mogul. We subsequently drifted apart, and while Harvey went on to find astronomic success in Hollywood, I worked as the chief psychologist at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for

Daniel Kriegman

20 Feb 2022 · 36 min read

Autism or Encephalitis? My Son’s Misdiagnosis and Our Family’s Season in Hell

Encephalitis recovery often takes years, not months, and some patients never fully recover.

S. Stiles

21 Jan 2022 · 19 min read

The Land Where Angela Davis Is Queen

I have watched the culture here slowly change—the troubling values I fled so far from followed me like a sort of reverse Manifest Destiny.

Meghann McCracken

22 Dec 2021 · 23 min read

The Schenker Controversy

History is complicated, people are complicated, and Schenker himself was a complex individual.

Timothy L. Jackson

20 Dec 2021 · 20 min read

Brutal and Unreformed—Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs’ at 50

It is a luminous performance, and while David might have been the hero-protagonist of Straw Dogs, Amy is its doomed center—a prisoner of the primitive society in which she was raised.

Charlotte Allen

15 Dec 2021 · 32 min read