Making Fiction Boring

22/10/2025

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The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books. By ⁠Adam Szetela⁠

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Making Fiction Boring

Quillette Narrated

D'autres épisodes de "Quillette Narrated"

Fleeing South Africa

Two Hundred Years of Stendhal

Making Fiction Boring

The Malpractice of Menopausal Medicine Reveals a Broken Medical System

Greta Thunberg’s Fifteen Minutes

Israel’s Hard-Won Victory

The Art of Middle Eastern Pillow Talk

All at Sea

It’s No Longer 1937...

Why We Should Read Nietzsche