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How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked.
Ways of feeling are not ways of knowing.
Pasolini's 1964 film reimagines the gospels as fundamentally Jewish stories.
‘Psycho’ deserves recognition as a classic film for the festive season.
Forty Years on, Dire Straits’ bassist John Illsley talks to Quillette about the band’s 1985 masterpiece, ‘Brothers in Arms.’
Richard Linklater’s film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘À Bout de Souffle’ is a delight.
Is telling lies about someone after they die okay if that someone was a very bad person?
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
We must act quickly to reverse illiberal trends among young men and women alike.
David Mamet’s new polemic is filled with muddled prose and muddled thought.
The author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ has returned with a new memoir, which features all the usual problems with her writing writ large.
‘The Man Who Would Be King’ turns fifty.
An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.
What we can learn from the moral and literary failings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and James Baldwin.
The homogenisation of culture begins with the loss of language.