Culture Trust

Columns

Fisting at the End of the World

Will Harrison

January 26, 2023

On the trailblazing pornographer Fred Halsted.

Donkey Work

Robert Rubsam

January 18, 2023

What does the pained animal signify?

Hong Kong Literature’s Growing Pains

Jaime Chu

January 11, 2023

The city’s Anglophone writers are caught at a crossroads.

Unflinching Prisoners of a Grandiose Make-Believe

Colin Asher

January 10, 2023

On Jan Valtin’s revolutionary memoir.

Real Magic

Lauren Collee

January 05, 2023

For Doug Henning, the equation of magic with Transcendental Meditation was no mere marketing tactic.

By the Bomb’s Filmic Light

Nicholas Russell

December 27, 2022

How did the threat of nuclear war become little more than a footnote?

Reenchanted Science

Erik Baker

December 22, 2022

Dreams die hard.

Past in Present

Mackenzie Lukenbill

December 15, 2022

AIDS cultural production across the generations.

Shortsighted

James Wham

December 12, 2022

Sight and Sound’s consumer criticism.

Sad Girl Manifesto

Grace Byron

December 06, 2022

A lost novel returns to the cult carny world of the gonzo queen.

The Weak Novel

Lucy Ives

November 30, 2022

The “weak novel” declines to serve as bland entertainment.

Mother May I

Maya Solovej

November 29, 2022

Vigdis Hjorth’s reality fiction.