Culture Trust

Columns

Fool’s Gold

Gene Seymour

July 08, 2020

In Spike Lee's latest, black vets return to Vietnam.

No Safe Haven

Leo Schwartz

June 29, 2020

Two books consider how U.S. policy ravages the Northern Triangle.

State of the Art

Josh Gabert-Doyon

June 23, 2020

Canada’s lucrative animation industry is hollowing out an art form

A Writer for the Masses

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

June 09, 2020

The illuminating hackwork of Cyprian Ekwensi.

Brief Encounters

John Semley

June 01, 2020

Rethinking inscrutability in two recent festival hits.

Meditations in an Emergency

Madeleine Crum

May 19, 2020

Worker writers take stock of a world reshaped by coronavirus.

Gatsbys of Our Time

Matt Hanson

May 18, 2020

On Fitzgerald’s novel and eternal American myths.

A Pretty Penny

Jennifer Schaffer

May 13, 2020

Two new novels set in contemporary East Asia look unsparingly at wealth and beauty.

The Part About the Crimes

Will Noah

May 11, 2020

Fernanda Melchor's scorching novel of femicide.

Fine Print

Bradley Babendir

May 08, 2020

Writing about reading, outside of the publishing industry’s hype cycle.

As the World Churns

Peter Manseau

May 06, 2020

The backstory behind the Land O'Lakes “butter maiden.”

Crimes of Passion

Becca Rothfeld

April 23, 2020

The violent imagination of Heinrich von Kleist.