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In the third instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes the revolution in agriculture, politics, and war that would transform many Indigenous societies before the arrival of French explorers.
Edward Berger’s award-winning film is a deeply flawed adaptation that replaces the book’s complexity and humanity with hyperbolic surrealism and misanthropy.
The question of whether an artwork is offensive is now determined by the least generous interpretation of the most sensitive viewer.
Farewell to Australia’s best-known comic and social satirist.
Joseph Wambaugh’s crime fiction has been much imitated but seldom equalled.
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
In the second instalment of an ongoing Quillette series, historian Greg Koabel describes how Leif Erikson ended up in Newfoundland
A tribute to Chris Bailey, the late frontman and co-founder of Australian punk band the Saints, who died a year ago today.
We live in a transitional period, when the possibility of being duped by incomprehensible intelligences—and thereby duping ourselves—has grown exponentially.
In a new Quillette series, historian and podcaster Greg Koabel traces the global origins of the land we now call Canada.
Most professors would rather watch it die than reform.
John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence.
Something terrible happens when art can’t reach audiences.
Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays.
A new exhibition at London’s Museum of the Mind explores the personality masks worn by the mentally ill and by the professionals who treat them.