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In the thirteenth instalment of our series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the crucial battlefield alliance that French explorers forged with Indigenous allies in 1609.
“The deep end is the best place to learn to swim.”
A newly restored Blu-ray release of ‘Foolish Wives’ offers a welcome reintroduction to one of cinema’s most gifted and eccentric artists.
We are all Rome’s children. Its legacy is everywhere we look.
The world is better than it would have been had we remained isolated from each other—even for Native Americans.
A look back at the career of Avery Corman, who found popular success with ‘Kramer versus Kramer’ before running afoul of feminism.
Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable?
In the third instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the rise of Alaric I, whose Gothic armies roamed Greece and the Balkans before marching on Rome itself.
Sean Penn’s surprising new documentary explores “extreme history” in war-torn Ukraine.
Like the first iPhone, Gutenberg’s Bible opened up avenues of development that entrepreneurs have been exploiting ever since.
In the twelfth instalment of an ongoing Quillette series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes France’s halting efforts to create a permanent Canadian settlement in the early 1600s.
An Interview with Saul Bellow’s biographer Zachary Leader.
If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps good fiction is the first casualty of culture war.
In the second instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the events that sparked the fateful Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire.
The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.