Culture Trust

Columns

Through the Opera Glass

Jeffrey Arlo Brown

July 01, 2025

Peter Gelb’s mismanagement of the Metropolitan Opera.

André Aciman’s Permanent Vacation

Crispin Long

June 25, 2025

“Life, he said with a light chuckle. Life indeed.”

The Sufferable Gaucho

Chapman Caddell

June 24, 2025

Literature is sickness.

Fast Country

Carina Imbornone

June 18, 2025

Behind every cul-de-sac an undiagnosed, private pain, duct taped by financial desire.

Slacking Toward Bethlehem

Sammy Loren

June 12, 2025

John Tottenham’s acerbic debut novel Service hums with an anti-sell out ethos.

Another Bullshit Night in Slop City

Will Harrison

June 11, 2025

Everything has become a nutrient-deficient remix.

The Marxists Are Coming

Mathias Fuelling

June 10, 2025

A historian excavates the subterranean legacy of American Marxism.

Fisher of Men

Ed Simon

June 04, 2025

Revolt is a thing of the stomach.

The Billionaire’s Happy Meal

Abe Beame

May 29, 2025

Tilman Fertitta’s grim vision for the future of dining out.

Miss Thing

Sasha Frere-Jones

May 28, 2025

Go back to bed, you self-absorbed naughty girly.

Sister, Sister

Jessica Fletcher

May 20, 2025

Were the Paget twins really unjustly overlooked?

The Time of Return

Rhian Sasseen

May 19, 2025

Can we escape history, or are we forever at its mercy?