Culture Trust

Columns

Spreadsheet Assassins

Matthew King

June 05, 2024

The SaaS-y grifters of Silicon Valley.

It’s the Real Thing!

Leo Kim

May 29, 2024

Realism, optimized.

Hag About Town

Reece Sisto

May 22, 2024

Robert Plunket’s “Love Junkie” puts bite back into queer literature.

Black Hole Sun

Lauren Collee

May 21, 2024

In eclipse tourism, the sublime brushes up against the obscene.

How German Isn’t It

Alex Cocotas

May 09, 2024

To be Jewish in Germany today is to abrogate the possibility of being German and Jewish.

Feeling Blessed

Christopher Hooks

May 08, 2024

Pining for monarchy at the Habsburg symposium in Plano, Texas.

A Perfect Telegram from Hell

Philippa Snow

May 07, 2024

On the late Heather Lewis.

Echo #76

Fady Joudah

May 06, 2024

A new poem by Fady Joudah.

Boys Next Door

Will Harrison

May 06, 2024

Geoffrey Mak’s reckoning with boys, brands, and violence.

Privileges of Misery

Max Pearl

April 26, 2024

The Obscene Bird of Night turns the upstairs-downstairs genre upside down.

Soul Aristocrats

Bailey Trela

April 23, 2024

The fairy-tale mysticism of Cristina Campo.

Night Vision

Andrew Leber

April 18, 2024

A changing Riyadh hits the big screen.