Graham Daseler

2 months ago | quillette.com | Robert Thornett |Graham Daseler |Joan Smith |Jonathan Kay

Kodiak Island is one of America’s most remote places. Located off the southwest coast of Alaska, it has only 12,500 residents but receives over 60,000 tourists per year. They come for the scenic green coastlines, which have given Kodiak the nickname the “Emerald Isle,” as well as activities like coho salmon fishing, watching Kodiak bears and whales, and kayaking.

2 months ago | quillette.com | Graham Daseler |Joan Smith |Jonathan Kay |John Aziz

A review of Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer by Richard Bernstein, 252 pages (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024)Shortly after sunset on the evening of 6 October 1927, 1,400 people converged on the Warner theatre in Manhattan to watch history being made. At first, the motion picture being projected seemed fairly ordinary—a run-of-the-mill family melodrama, performed in silent pantomime, just like every other feature film before it.