Culture Trust

Columns

Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1952–2023 

Jen Monroe

June 20, 2023

Art is long, life is short.

Errant Telenovelas

Byron Davies

June 15, 2023

Telenovelas are the Mexican arbiters of life and death.

Brains on Drugs

John Semley

June 14, 2023

How consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

Archival Frictions

Sadie Graham

June 13, 2023

Painting a fuller picture of lesbian experience.

Paranoid Posting

Sophia Goodfriend

June 08, 2023

How the army benefits from the influencer economy.

Queer History Now!

Ben Miller

June 07, 2023

A truly queer history means that all must be rendered strange.

Côte d’Illusion

James Wham

June 06, 2023

Cannes as we know it is an invention of the aristocracy.

Available Space

Michael Blair

May 31, 2023

The musical osmosis of Ry Cooder.

Bad Romance

Eli 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.