Culture Trust

Columns

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.

Nevertheless, She Lifted

Meghan Racklin

February 07, 2022

In the late 1950s, Bonnie Prudden, a fitness instructor and researcher who played a key role in the establishment of the President’s Council on Youth Fitness, led an exercise program at a Westchester women’s prison. The program was advertised with posters in the prison ...

Body and Soul

Sam Russek

January 31, 2022

Adrian Nathan West discusses body-building, mindfulness, and whether the self is an illusion.

Mementos Mori

Sophie Haigney

January 27, 2022

Why do objects disappear?

Show Some Emotion

Meghan Racklin

January 18, 2022

The doomed quest to taxonomize human emotion.

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.