Culture Trust

Columns

Why Read the Classics?

Abdelfattah Kilito

April 05, 2021

A Moroccan Master reflects on the Arabic tradition.

Runaway American Dreams

Dennis M. Hogan

April 01, 2021

On the Boss’s long political trajectory.

London Calling

Daniel Trilling

March 31, 2021

A new book surveys London’s long history of immigration.

Castes of Mind

Suraj Yengde

March 24, 2021

On the intersection of race and caste.

Loose Change

Madeleine Crum

March 18, 2021

A new novel’s conflict plays out in dollars and cents.

The Presence of Absence

John Washington

March 17, 2021

Two films grapple with disappearances at the US-Mexico border.

Mass Hipgnosis

Rich Woodall

March 15, 2021

On the financialization of the music industry.

Wander Woman

Emma Myers

March 04, 2021

On Nomadland and the cinema of peripatetic women.

Dancing on a Volcano

Ben Schwartz

March 04, 2021

Two films from 1938 tackle the French Revolution

The Talking Cure

Hannah Gold

March 03, 2021

On Christine Smallwood’s novel of neuroses.

Stepping Twice in the Same River

Juan José Saer

March 01, 2021

A translated excerpt from Juan José Saer's “El río sin orillas.”

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Matthew Zarenkiewicz

February 23, 2021

Fifty Shades of Grey with Iowa MFA bona fides