Culture Trust

Columns

Self and Simulation

Trevor Quirk

January 18, 2024

What defines reality, and why should we live there?

Only Connect

Kim Hew-Low

January 17, 2024

Sigrid Nunez’s pandemic novel.

Furious Jumping

Kenneth Dillon

December 21, 2023

“Poor Things” samples the radical potential of rebirth.

Take It to the Spank Bank

Anabelle Johnston

December 14, 2023

We had entered the uncanny valley, and everyone was naked.

Boy Afraid

Grace Byron

December 07, 2023

Hayao Miyazaki’s grief-soaked kingdom of boyhood dreams.

Be True to Your Bar

Kevin Brazil

December 06, 2023

Whither the gay bar?

Sphere Eats the Soul

Aaron Timms

November 29, 2023

The Sphere in Las Vegas is the canonical venue for the online era.

After Melville

Andrew Schenker

November 22, 2023

Each generation finds a new Herman Melville.

Who Are Ready to Rouse Up Leviathan?

Ed Simon

November 16, 2023

Everything is a religion.

Everyday User

Will Harrison

November 03, 2023

Some people are born to post, others grow into it.

Price on Request

Ravi Ghosh

November 02, 2023

Data analytics and artificial intelligence will not make the art world any more democratic.

Paul Schrader’s American Carnage

Robert Rubsam

October 31, 2023

How the director became our chief chronicler of U.S. violence, at home and abroad.