Culture Trust

Columns

Weak at the Knees

James Wham

April 07, 2022

“Ahed’s Knee” has little to say about the gravest crimes of the state it sets out to criticize.

Silver Screen Sphinxes

Christina Newland

April 04, 2022

How Greta Garbo and Buster Keaton invented celebrity privacy.

He, Robot

Ian Wang

March 31, 2022

“After Yang” struggles to be more than a metaphor.

Reality Bites Back

Andrew Schenker

March 30, 2022

Has David Shields given his very last interview?

Heavily Made Up

Jessa Crispin

March 25, 2022

Don't look now, but it's “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”

The World Was Just an Address

A. S. Hamrah

March 24, 2022

The Oscars are the abandoned auto show of the movie industry.

The Billionaire’s Bard

Rob Madole

March 16, 2022

On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson.

Apichatpong the Memorious

Dennis Zhou

March 09, 2022

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films uncover long-suppressed histories.

Sex Miseducation

Whitney Strub

February 23, 2022

A bildungsroman of boomer hermeneutics.

Forty-Four Thoughts for Cecil Taylor

Taylor Ho Bynum

February 22, 2022

A literary improvisation.

Cold Comfort

Kristen Martin

February 21, 2022

Sarah Manguso’s icy debut novel.

How Should a Person Tree?

Jack Hanson

February 14, 2022

On Sheila Heti’s creation myth.