Culture Trust

Columns

The Way of Waters

Annie Howard

October 25, 2023

Hollywood comes around on John Waters.

Good Morning Gaza

Fady Joudah

October 25, 2023

On the untranslatability of Mahmoud Darwish’s “The Final Meeting in Rome.”

Big Bad Wolf

Kaila Philo

October 12, 2023

Can we undo the harms of the Mirror World?

Island Writing

Sofia Samatar

October 05, 2023

The sentence makes a sound, says Anne Serre—the “sound of my life.”

Sacklerama!

John Semley

September 28, 2023

Why we can’t look away from opioid epidemic entertainments.

Grief’s Tentacles

Adam Morris

September 27, 2023

The unlikely charm of “The Love of Singular Men.”

Depravity’s Rainbow

Kyle Ferrer

September 26, 2023

Low life and hard fare in the slob's nirvana.

Curious George

Steve Macfarlane

September 11, 2023

Oh, we like this guy now?

Two Lovers

Jackson Davidow

September 07, 2023

Picturing the gay couple.

Hanging in the Balance Sheet

Kyle Paoletta

August 29, 2023

The era of movies about consumer products is only just beginning.

Chat’s Entertainment

Sean Michaels

August 24, 2023

Artificial intelligence is not enough: human creativity is born out of biology, biography, and dream.

Accessory after the Fact

Jack Sheehan

August 23, 2023

A work of true crime turns against itself.