Culture Trust

Columns

The Composer Has No Clothes

Jeffrey Arlo Brown

July 31, 2024

The rot at the heart of the classical music industry.

The Eyes of Lacy

Moeko Fujii

July 18, 2024

How does a girl’s gaze grow up?

Ritualistic Postures

Jeremy Lybarger

July 10, 2024

You don’t look at her art so much as wait for its disclosures.

Superflux of Fucking

Grayson Scott

July 08, 2024

Where better to hide revolutionary opinions than under a pile of smut?

James Chance, 1953–2024

Lucy Sante

July 03, 2024

James Chance personified punk rock’s punk rock

Tower of Plebes

Jasper Craven,  Chris Maggio

July 02, 2024

An immaculate idol to American bloodshed and extractive capitalism.

Against Slop

Noah Caldwell-Gervais

June 25, 2024

The game does not care if you succeed or fail.

Risk and Reward

Anthony Domestico

June 24, 2024

Thom Gunn was the great rhapsode of risk.

Portraits of the Artist

Maya Solovej

June 20, 2024

Rachel Cusk’s non-language of female experience.

In the Realm of the Senseless

FT

June 19, 2024

Disappointment and confusion reign at the Kit Kat Club.

Extremely Online and Incredibly Tedious

Rhian Sasseen

June 12, 2024

“Brat” reads like a c. 2010 Tumblr page spat up by the Wayback Machine.

Wonder Woman

Madeleine Crum

June 06, 2024

Twee isn’t always a pejorative, but it’s not a compliment either.