Sex and Smashed Steel A look back at J.G. Ballard's âCrashââone of the the 20th centuryâs greatest and most disturbingly prophetic novels. Benjamin Kerstein 2 Apr 2024 · 25 min read
Narcissism for All Forty-five years ago, Christopher Lasch identified what has become a defining feature of modern activismââthe ever-present, neurotic need to be recognized and affirmed.â Julia Friedman 30 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
Mystic Without a Church Werner Herzogâs new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 28 Mar 2024 · 17 min read
Where Do Works of Art Belong? An Artist's Response to James Kiersteadâs âThe Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps" Megan Gafford 27 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
93 Years of Shatner A tribute to an irrepressible TV starâs ability to live long and prosper. Kevin Mims 22 Mar 2024 · 21 min read
Is G Flip A Woman? If we siphon off all female diversity into categories like 'non-binary' we narrow the idea of what it means to be a woman. Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2024 · 7 min read
The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars Metamodernism conveys the experience of living in a world in which we feel comfortable oscillating between different perspectives. Peter Clarke 20 Mar 2024 · 6 min read
An Unlikely Cinematic Triumph Efforts to produce a worthy film adaptation of Frank Herbertâs âDuneâ seemed doomed to failureâuntil Denis Villeneuve gave us his two-part blockbuster. Allan Stratton 15 Mar 2024 · 14 min read
China, the West, and The Three-Body Problem The themes of Liu Cixinâs trilogy undermine his protestations of loyalty to the Peopleâs Republic. Jason Garshfield 15 Mar 2024 · 17 min read
Katie Herzogâs Plan B In a new book, Katherine Brodsky explains how members of the âsilenced majorityâ find new audiences after enduring episodes of public mobbing. Katherine Brodsky 11 Mar 2024 · 9 min read
A Love Letter to the Theatre An interview with Sean Mathias, the director of a daring and original new film adaptation of âHamlet.â Hannah Gal 10 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
Attila Invictus In the eighth instalment of âThe So-Called Dark Ages,â Herbert Bushman describes the Hunsâ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Herbert Bushman 8 Mar 2024 · 19 min read
Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an âacute awarenessâ of the limitations of our power to influence reality. Alan S. Rome 8 Mar 2024 · 13 min read
The Amityville HorrorâA 50-Year Old Lie That Wonât Die Jay Ansonâs haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America. Kevin Mims 7 Mar 2024 · 26 min read
On Sin and Repentance Our secular ideas about guilt and absolution distort the language and values of Christianity. Marilyn Simon 4 Mar 2024 · 9 min read
