Culture Trust

Columns

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Matthew Zarenkiewicz

February 23, 2021

Fifty Shades of Grey with Iowa MFA bona fides

American Gothic

B.D. McClay

February 22, 2021

On Netflix, the haunted house gets saged.

Surrealism’s Beating Heart

Reed McConnell

February 18, 2021

On Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, and leaving musehood behind.

Live, Laugh, Log Off

Becca Rothfeld

February 17, 2021

Patricia Lockwood’s “internet novel” belies its categorization.

Arts and Statecraft

Sophie Haigney

February 09, 2021

Is the history of America a history of craft?

Goodbye, Dolly

Tom Sexton

February 08, 2021

Mythmaking in Dolly Parton’s America.

Head in the Cloud

Megan Marz

February 04, 2021

Google: How do you write a memoir of the internet?

Going Medieval on Your Gram

Esmé Hogeveen

February 02, 2021

Blackletter fonts find new life on politicized social media.

Run, River

Will Noah

February 01, 2021

On Juan José Saer's backwater modernism.

Tove Ditlevsen’s Fragmentary Self

Bailey Trela

January 25, 2021

On the radical facticity of The Copenhagen Trilogy.

Streamlining the Streaming Regime

Sam Backer

January 19, 2021

The Music Modernization Act promises to streamline a long-antiquated legal regime for the benefit of music’s bright streaming future.

So the Story Goes

Yelena Furman

January 11, 2021

On the colloquial tales of Nikolai Leskov.