Culture Trust

Columns

Cinema Is Never on Time

A. S. Hamrah

September 06, 2022

On the late film critic Serge Daney.

Pieces of the Big Thing

Justin Taylor

September 05, 2022

Money is violent and money is sexual. One thing I like about Phish is that they’re neither.

Mother Knows Best

Bekah Waalkes

August 30, 2022

The anti-work novel gets a maternal twist.

Everyone’s a Critic

John Merrick

August 25, 2022

A radical tradition of cultural critique is at risk of extinction.

Oozing Class

Alexander Wells

August 15, 2022

On the border-crossing German novelist Wolfgang Hilbig.

Beyond the Frame

Rhian Sasseen

August 02, 2022

The forward-thinking sci-fi of Izumi Suzuki.

Hardwickian

Greg Gerke

July 28, 2022

The Uncollected Essays shows us another Elizabeth Hardwick.

Raging for the World That Is

Francesca Wade

July 27, 2022

Muriel Rukeyser’s political activities were inextricable from her literary experimentation.

True Colors

Luise Mörke

July 20, 2022

Aura has become one of the internet’s favorite ways of rendering personality.

El Alto Chronicles

Ruxandra Guidi

July 18, 2022

Quya Reyna is a young Aymara writer who casts a light urban indigeneity in Bolivia.

Invitation to a Flogging

Huda Awan

July 14, 2022

Ottessa Moshfegh’s crude omniscience.

Closing Time

Hettie O’Brien

July 13, 2022

If there is one thing people love to proclaim dead, it’s the shopping mall.