Culture Trust

Columns

Thick as Thieves

Philippa Snow

November 19, 2018

In Widows, what should cause tonal whiplash is, in Steve McQueen’s hands, disquieting, exhilarating: capital-R Real.

Solutionism for Students

Richard A. Greenwald

November 15, 2018

The authors of "The Coddling of the American Mind" diagnose a generation of students and then offer a cure—mass therapy.

Mr. Difficult Jr.

Sho Spaeth

November 14, 2018

The new "William Gass Reader" celebrates the great essayist and philosopher—but it's Gass's fictions that will stand the test of time.

Fanatical Moderate

Nathan Goldman

November 13, 2018

In Dear Zealots, Amos Oz is unwavering in his commitment to a Jewish nationalism as simple and brutal as any other.

If It Looks Like a Duck

Yohann Koshy

November 09, 2018

How to read How to Read Donald Duck in 2018.

The Price is Wrong

Angella d’Avignon

November 07, 2018

Without incisive critique or explosive insider information, the spectacle of The Price of Everything wears thin.

The Horror, the Horror

Michael Reid Roberts

October 26, 2018

With "Suspira" and "Halloween," a genre copies itself for the intellectual property era.

Brutalist Fiction

J.W. McCormack

October 25, 2018

After reading Diane Williams, the classic short story seems like a sprawling black hole.

The Palace and the Storm

Kate Wagner

October 23, 2018

Only the rich will survive climate change.

Nudging the Lexicon

Sophie Haigney

October 23, 2018

The more we use The New Gmail, the more we beckon the end of meaningful human language.

The Archivists of Extinction

Kate Wagner

October 19, 2018

In an era of capitalist ruin, we need an architectural history of the people.

Tokens of Appreciation

Soraya Roberts

October 08, 2018

When protest masquerades as art? The result is Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette.