Culture Trust

Columns

Aliens and Alienation

Erica X Eisen

April 09, 2020

On extraterrestrial thinking in apocalyptic times.

Homage to Albert Murray

Clifford Thompson

April 08, 2020

Reflections on the fifteenth anniversary of The Omni-Americans.

The Visible Man

Soraya Roberts

March 13, 2020

Invisibility and Platonic justice in the #MeToo era

No Boots Without Leather

James Wham

March 06, 2020

Cattle and capital in Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow.

Appetite for Reconstruction

Andrew Marzoni

February 27, 2020

Is Axl Rose engaging in a bit of resistance grift?

Glass Girl

Philippa Snow

February 26, 2020

On Anna Kavan’s stories of disintegration.

Working on Ourselves

Sam Thompson

February 24, 2020

Esther Perel’s class-free diagnosis of workplace conflict

Grist for the Rumor Mill

Megan Marz

February 18, 2020

Truth, lies, and trauma in the novels of Anna Burns.

Against Virtuosity

John Semley

February 12, 2020

Recently, idling away an especially rainy Saturday in January, I found myself sinking a solid six hours into Sony Interactive Entertainment’s 2018 blockbuster game God of War: a stupid-violent farrago of Greek and Norse mythology notable for employing a fixed, ...

Money Is an Iron: Oscar Movies, 2020

A. S. Hamrah

February 07, 2020

Hollywood Anglophilia reached new heights in 2019 and The Two Popes is Exhibit A.

Pod Save Antarctica

Emma Hager

February 06, 2020

In Weather, Jenny Offill tackles the Anthropocene.

Heaven Help Us

Megan Marz

January 29, 2020

Literature and the doctrine of self-improvement