Culture Trust

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More Than a Feeling

Stephanie Burt

July 30, 2025

How can you tell an epiphany from a breakdown?

Down by the Schoolyard

Daniel Felsenthal

July 29, 2025

At Amant in Brooklyn, education becomes art.

Fools Russian

Will McDonald

July 24, 2025

“It’s my great misfortune to have left one dying empire for another.”

No Justice, No Shade

Eric Dean Wilson

July 23, 2025

On the radical possibilities of shade.

Loving the Alien

Eric Benson

July 15, 2025

“Time may tell.”

Worker’s Song

Franz Nicolay

July 02, 2025

What’s new about the “new music labor movement”?

Through the Opera Glass

Jeffrey Arlo Brown

July 01, 2025

Peter Gelb’s mismanagement of the Metropolitan Opera.

André Aciman’s Permanent Vacation

Crispin Long

June 25, 2025

“Life, he said with a light chuckle. Life indeed.”

The Sufferable Gaucho

Chapman Caddell

June 24, 2025

Literature is sickness.

Fast Country

Carina Imbornone

June 18, 2025

Behind every cul-de-sac an undiagnosed, private pain, duct taped by financial desire.

Slacking Toward Bethlehem

Sammy Loren

June 12, 2025

John Tottenham’s acerbic debut novel Service hums with an anti-sell out ethos.

Another Bullshit Night in Slop City

Will Harrison

June 11, 2025

Everything has become a nutrient-deficient remix.