Culture Trust

Columns

W.A.S.T.E. Not

Madeleine Adams

May 15, 2025

A​​ll civilization is an attempt to make waste disappear.

War Stories

Charles McFarlane

May 09, 2025

Hollywood’s depictions of the global war on terror have been a mixed bag at best.

Small Fry

Walker Rutter-Bowman

May 07, 2025

Like treated beef, Claire Baglin’s novel is a lean, finely textured thing.

Quarantine the Past

John Semley

May 06, 2025

A superlative Gen X treatment on what may be the ultimate Gen X band.

Heteropessimism of the Intellect

Arielle Isack

April 25, 2025

On Sophie Kemp’s biblical saga of romantic disappointment.

The C.U.P. Runneth Over

Dave Infante

April 23, 2025

Busch Light’s C.U.P.s are full to the brim with reactionary politics.

The Space Between

Abdelrahman ElGendy

April 22, 2025

Sarah Aziza grapples with her Palestinian family’s history of exile.

A Place of Wounds

William Giraldi

April 17, 2025

Being an American, Henry James knew, is “a complex fate.”

Fashionable Nonsense

Leif Weatherby

April 14, 2025

The enterprise of behavioral science is rotten to the core.

Kafka in Kurdish

Matt Broomfield

April 11, 2025

Burhan Sönmez goes “home” to his native language.

The Way of All Flesh

Harris Lahti

April 02, 2025

While sifting through the constant bombardment of life, the brain builds meaning from what’s repeated.

If You Should Fall

Jackson Davidow

March 26, 2025

Do you care? Do you care that we were here?