Culture Trust

Columns

Sphere Eats the Soul

Aaron Timms

November 29, 2023

The Sphere in Las Vegas is the canonical venue for the online era.

After Melville

Andrew Schenker

November 22, 2023

Each generation finds a new Herman Melville.

Who Are Ready to Rouse Up Leviathan?

Ed Simon

November 16, 2023

Everything is a religion.

Everyday User

Will Harrison

November 03, 2023

Some people are born to post, others grow into it.

Price on Request

Ravi Ghosh

November 02, 2023

Data analytics and artificial intelligence will not make the art world any more democratic.

Paul Schrader’s American Carnage

Robert Rubsam

October 31, 2023

How the director became our chief chronicler of U.S. violence, at home and abroad.

Reading Between the Lines

Jess Bergman

October 27, 2023

How did the publishing world arrive at such dull ambitions?

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.