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@Quillette

Ten Years of Ideas.
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Quillette @Quillette
Exorcist II: The Heretic was called "the stupidest major movie ever made," and at one preview the studio executives had to flee the theatre.

A new documentary, Boorman and the Devil, revisits the fiasco, and @TomDohertyfilm’s essay looks at the whole genre of books and films that dissect Hollywood's greatest flops.

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quillette.com Exorcist II: Autopsy of a Hollywood Fiasco The making of John Boorman's misbegotten sequel to ‘The Exorcist’ and our fascination with creative failure.
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.@simonmontefiore's The Cauldron attempts something few historians would risk: a single-volume history of the Middle East from Morocco to Iran, from 1900 to the present. Reviewing it for Quillette, Benny Morris finds it a remarkable achievement, vivid on the region's coups, dynasties and atrocities. He is also blunt about its slips on the Arab–Israeli wars.

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quillette.com The Cauldron Review: Montefiore’s Middle East Simon Sebag Montefiore’s sprawling 125-year history of the Middle East is flawed and overambitious but filled with eye-catching detail.
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Quillette @Quillette
Frank Capra, the man who made It’s a Wonderful Life was once the biggest director in Hollywood. A decade later, he was making educational films for a phone company. What went wrong?

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quillette.com Frank Capra Biography: Why His Career Collapsed Sam Wasson’s new Capra biography is a welcome corrective, but it goes too easy on the director and misreads his decline.
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"So today is a great age of crisis. We are alive to see the dismembering of the liberal ethic in America to the cheering of one hundred million of its citizens, at the same time as society waits to learn whether what may prove one of the most consequential technologies in human history thrusts us into paradise, or the opposite"

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quillette.com End-of-History Illusion and the Age of Crisis Nothing short of being at the precipice, on the sharp edge between the world as it was and the world as it will be, ever seems able to describe the present in terms that adequately capture it.
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Democracy, liberalism, the postwar order: everything is said to be ending. Medieval Christians felt the same about the world itself.

Harry Seavey on why every age thinks it stands at history's turning point.

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quillette.com End-of-History Illusion and the Age of Crisis Nothing short of being at the precipice, on the sharp edge between the world as it was and the world as it will be, ever seems able to describe the present in terms that adequately capture it.