Culture Trust

Columns

Age of Iron

Bongani Kona

January 11, 2022

What led the adversaries in apartheid South Africa to seek a negotiated settlement instead of a fight to the finish?

Conceptual Personae

Adam Morris

January 06, 2022

The many lives of Fernando Pessoa.

Déjà Vu All Over Again

John Semley

December 23, 2021

The Matrix, resurrected.

I Told You So

Jake Bittle

December 23, 2021

Adam McKay’s Aesop-style fable.

Carnival of Souls

Dustin Illingworth

December 20, 2021

On the exhilarating bleakness of Rafael Chirbes’s fiction.

No Country for Old Women

Michael Hofmann

December 03, 2021

The British novelist Elizabeth Taylor was a master of awkward and complicated feelings.

Macho Macho Men

Benjamin Weil

November 23, 2021

The queer history of pumping iron.

Bear Witness

Nathan Goldman

November 16, 2021

Can an act of interspecies violence bridge the human/animal divide?

Seeing Holes

Jackson Davidow

November 10, 2021

What can account for Darrel Ellis’s historiographic exclusion?

A Living Weapon in Your Hand

Francesca Wade

November 03, 2021

Diane di Prima's poetry combined revolutionary ideas and spiritual fervor.

The Well-Upholstered Nightmare

Will Harrison

November 01, 2021

We first see it emblazoned upon the book’s cover, and then once more on its opening page: a resplendent photograph of a mid-sized Spanish Colonial at dusk. Light appears to travel through the image somehow—a quality derived from a long exposure time—receding as the ...

Edith Wharton’s Hauntology

Jack Hanson

October 27, 2021

Knowing and unknowing in Wharton’s “tales of the uncanny.”