Culture Trust

Columns

Brief Encounters

John Semley

June 01, 2020

Rethinking inscrutability in two recent festival hits.

Meditations in an Emergency

Madeleine Crum

May 19, 2020

Worker writers take stock of a world reshaped by coronavirus.

Gatsbys of Our Time

Matt Hanson

May 18, 2020

On Fitzgerald’s novel and eternal American myths.

A Pretty Penny

Jennifer Schaffer

May 13, 2020

Two new novels set in contemporary East Asia look unsparingly at wealth and beauty.

The Part About the Crimes

Will Noah

May 11, 2020

Fernanda Melchor's scorching novel of femicide.

Fine Print

Bradley Babendir

May 08, 2020

Writing about reading, outside of the publishing industry’s hype cycle.

As the World Churns

Peter Manseau

May 06, 2020

The backstory behind the Land O'Lakes “butter maiden.”

Crimes of Passion

Becca Rothfeld

April 23, 2020

The violent imagination of Heinrich von Kleist.

Aliens and Alienation

Erica X Eisen

April 09, 2020

On extraterrestrial thinking in apocalyptic times.

Homage to Albert Murray

Clifford Thompson

April 08, 2020

Reflections on the fifteenth anniversary of The Omni-Americans.

The Visible Man

Soraya Roberts

March 13, 2020

Invisibility and Platonic justice in the #MeToo era

No Boots Without Leather

James Wham

March 06, 2020

Cattle and capital in Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow.