Culture Trust

Columns

Available Space

Michael Blair

May 31, 2023

The musical osmosis of Ry Cooder.

Bad Romance

Elia Cugini

May 30, 2023

Erotic fiction is in a rut.

A Luso-Tropical Holy Grail

Meg Weeks

May 25, 2023

A classic of Brazilian modernism gets its due in a new translation.

Bully Superstar

Jeremy Lybarger

May 23, 2023

The high drama and cool shallows of Fassbinder.

Theater of Pain

Annie Howard

May 18, 2023

The macabre humor and gristly pageantry of Blacklips.

Creature’s Pet

Steve Macfarlane

May 17, 2023

Ricou Browning’s aquatic athleticism is what made the creature real, and therefore terrifying.

Traffic Jam

Leah Finnegan

May 02, 2023

Worshipping at the altar of the click.

Norman Mailer’s Ripe Garbage

Rob Madole

April 26, 2023

Mailer succeeded by mistaking his sensationalist energies for ideas.

Of Monsters and Men

Rhian Sasseen

April 20, 2023

What to do with the art of monstrous men?

Repossessed

Grace Byron

April 18, 2023

We’re still casting the demons out.

TikTok on the Clock

David Turner

April 11, 2023

Is this the end for TikTok?

Thinking Like a Mountain

Madeleine Crum

April 06, 2023

On Tom Comitta’s ecological fiction.