Culture Trust

Columns

Heaven Help Us

Megan Marz

January 29, 2020

Literature and the doctrine of self-improvement

Speed Freaks

Evan Malmgren

January 28, 2020

A gaming community goes corporate

The Poet of Infinite Longing

Dustin Illingworth

January 21, 2020

Desire and shame in the fiction of Garth Greenwell.

All-American Amnesia

Peter Goldberg

January 17, 2020

Gary Indiana follows the scams and the scammers.

Certain Unflattering Truths

Jennifer Schaffer

January 15, 2020

Anna Wiener infiltrates the panopticon.

The Action is the Juice

John Semley

January 14, 2020

Uncut Gems and Dark Waters crystallize how being alive today feels.

The Baffler Welcomes J. W. McCormack

The Baffler

December 12, 2019

The Baffler is delighted to announce that J. W. McCormack is our new fiction editor. He will oversee the relaunch of the magazine’s fiction section with new stories in each bimonthly print issue as well as online fiction offerings every month. He joins Nicole Terez Dutton, ...

The Leftovers

John Semley

December 10, 2019

In The Irishman, mob opulence is eclipsed by ugliness.

All I Have Are Negative Thoughts

Andrew Marzoni

December 09, 2019

In his eighth novel, Michel Houellebecq ODs on Serotonin.

Why Clerks Still Works

Matt Hanson

December 06, 2019

Why the movie "Clerks" still has its shelf life.

The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus

Andrew Marzoni

November 22, 2019

Music and fascism fifty years after Adorno

You’re the Man for Us

John Semley

November 19, 2019

The un-cynical irony of Mister America and On Cinema