A Beautiful Odyssey, Made Dreary By Remorse
Christopher Nolan’s creation is a big movie in every technical sense. But inside, it is diminished and faded: heroes who aren’t allowed to be heroes and gods who aren’t allowed to be gods.
Historical Myths
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Rohmer at Camelot
Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978) vividly recreates the imaginative world in which the people of the Middle Ages lived inside their heads.
Marie Antoinette: Figure of Myth, Magnet for Lies
Marie Antoinette was not entirely innocent in her lifetime; in fact, she was guilty of many extravagances.
Muslim Vikings — Abuses of History
Why did a flimsy interpretation of a small artefact from provincial Sweden seem so important to the English-language world’s most powerful news outlets?