Culture Trust

Columns

Real Magic

Lauren Collee

January 05, 2023

For Doug Henning, the equation of magic with Transcendental Meditation was no mere marketing tactic.

By the Bomb’s Filmic Light

Nicholas Russell

December 27, 2022

How did the threat of nuclear war become little more than a footnote?

Reenchanted Science

Erik Baker

December 22, 2022

Dreams die hard.

Past in Present

Mackenzie Lukenbill

December 15, 2022

AIDS cultural production across the generations.

Shortsighted

James Wham

December 12, 2022

Sight and Sound’s consumer criticism.

Sad Girl Manifesto

Grace Byron

December 06, 2022

A lost novel returns to the cult carny world of the gonzo queen.

The Weak Novel

Lucy Ives

November 30, 2022

The “weak novel” declines to serve as bland entertainment.

Mother May I

Maya Solovej

November 29, 2022

Vigdis Hjorth’s reality fiction.

Remembrance of Things Present

Yasmina Price

November 22, 2022

On the Sankofa Film and Video Collective.

Life in the Fap Lane

Rob Madole

November 21, 2022

Reevaluating the work of John Barth.

Shirley Hazzard’s Republic of Letters

Anthony Domestico

November 16, 2022

For Hazzard, life and literature were warp and weft.

Goodbye to All That

Hannah Gold

November 14, 2022

Slouching towards the auction block.