Culture Trust

Columns

The Fruit of Power

James Wham

April 21, 2021

Raoul Peck unspools Western history in a new documentary on colonialism and genocide

Must Love Bogs

Sami Emory

April 20, 2021

Conserving peatlands is a cheap climate change win. So why’s it such a hard sell?

A Theory of Thorstein Veblen

Bruce Robbins

April 12, 2021

A new biography challenges the Veblen’s image as an academic misfit.

You Are Not Familiar with My Voice

A. S. Hamrah

April 07, 2021

John Gianvito on Helen Keller and his new film, Her Socialist Smile.

Why Read the Classics?

Abdelfattah Kilito

April 05, 2021

A Moroccan Master reflects on the Arabic tradition.

Runaway American Dreams

Dennis M. Hogan

April 01, 2021

On the Boss’s long political trajectory.

London Calling

Daniel Trilling

March 31, 2021

A new book surveys London’s long history of immigration.

Castes of Mind

Suraj Yengde

March 24, 2021

On the intersection of race and caste.

Loose Change

Madeleine Crum

March 18, 2021

A new novel’s conflict plays out in dollars and cents.

The Presence of Absence

John Washington

March 17, 2021

Two films grapple with disappearances at the US-Mexico border.

Mass Hipgnosis

Rich Woodall

March 15, 2021

On the financialization of the music industry.

Wander Woman

Emma Myers

March 04, 2021

On Nomadland and the cinema of peripatetic women.