Games and Thrones
The real history of the era portrayed in Gladiator II is much more interesting, tumultuous, and murderous than Scott’s simpleminded yarn.
Charlotte Allen
· 13 min read
Arts and Culture
A collection of 74 posts
New York Narcissism
Nikkitha Bakshani’s debut novel ‘Ghost Chilli’ is an ideologically confused work that seems to endorse the racial essentialism it purports to satirise.
Brad Strotten
· 5 min read
The Elephant Man in an Era of Cancel Culture: Quillette Cetera Episode 19
Crowds love the irreverence of The Marvellous Elephant Man Musical, but activists want it boycotted.
Zoe Booth
· 1 min read
Narcissism and Fraudulence
Intensive con artistry may be a narcissistic strategy for the avoidance of self-knowledge.
Anthony Eagan
· 12 min read
Remix and Float Downstream
Giles Martin has reinvigorated the Beatles’ masterpiece, a record brimming with ideas, confidence, and insouciant courage.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 11 min read
French Nobels
Dynamite, literature, and the rise of the engaged intellectual.
Robert Zaretsky
· 10 min read
FDR and the Holocaust
A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president.
Ronald Radosh
· 26 min read
Poetic Justice
How an octogenarian artist defied curatorial bureaucracy.
Julia Friedman
· 9 min read
A Strange and Brutal Country
Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 7 min read
The Real Star of M*A*S*H
A personal tribute to the overlooked genius of writer W.C. Heinz.
Kevin Mims
· 13 min read
Peter Straub, 1943–2022
Farewell to another of the Big Six novelists from the Golden Age of American horror fiction.
Kevin Mims
· 13 min read
The Striver’s Curse
A review of Arthur C. Brooks’s new book, ‘From Strength to Strength.’
Ari David Blaff
· 6 min read
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
· 29 min read
Guilty and Insane
Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.
Daniel Kriegman
· 20 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
· 21 min read