Culture Trust

Columns

She Stays Winning

Beatrice Loayza

May 19, 2021

A genre of “feminist” filmmaking conflates suffering and empowerment.

Fake Realness

Adam Morris

May 12, 2021

A new book confronts the gay bar’s slow decline.

Art for Earth’s Sake

Lauren Kelly

May 11, 2021

On Joanie Lemercier’s climate-conscious art.

The Music Room

Adeeba Shahid Talukder

May 10, 2021

On loosing and finding Hindustani classical music.

Ways of Knowing

Edna Bonhomme

May 05, 2021

A love letter to Black interdisciplinary thought.

The Visions of Henry Dumas

John Keene

May 03, 2021

On a genre-breaking forerunner of Afrofuturism.

Lush Life

Elias Rodriques

April 29, 2021

Thulani Davis's poetry conjures a lost era of jazz.

The Museum Shoots Twice

Travis Diehl

April 22, 2021

The museum is a failed technology.

In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing

A. S. Hamrah

April 22, 2021

ANOTHER ROUND If you can accept Mads Mikkelsen as a depressed high school history teacher in the suburbs, maybe you will also believe that his beautiful doctor wife (Maria Bonnevie) would take him back after he makes drinking on the job the guiding principle of his life. Thomas ...

The Fruit of Power

James Wham

April 21, 2021

Raoul Peck unspools Western history in a new documentary on colonialism and genocide

Must Love Bogs

Sami Emory

April 20, 2021

Conserving peatlands is a cheap climate change win. So why’s it such a hard sell?

A Theory of Thorstein Veblen

Bruce Robbins

April 12, 2021

A new biography challenges the Veblen’s image as an academic misfit.