Culture

Marie Madeleine is a fiercely Apollonian film about a land that the news presents as hopelessly Dionysian.

Culture

Charlie Bertsch / 14 Oct 2026

Love and Haiti

Marie Madeleine, Directed by Gessica Généus

Gessica Généus’s new film Marie Madeleine is a beautiful film about ugliness.(...)

Culture

Sabina Knight / 30 Sep 2026

The Garbage Time of History

Empty, Homogeneous Politics

When President Xi Jinping visited the White House last week, Donald Trump implicitly acknowledged that China is now a peer of the United States. (...)

Culture

Iolanda Cuomo / 19 Sep 2026

What Colonialism Left Behind

In The Long Shadow of Empire, by Angelo Boccato

People often believe empires are relics of the past, with a few exceptions.(...)

Man and robot. HaMelekh George Street, Tel Aviv.

Culture

Charlie Bertsch / 16 Sep 2026

Soundtrack for the Future

The Rest Is My Ghost, by Lawrence English

Lawrence English’s new album The Rest Is My Ghost excavates a future from the past.(...)

Culture

Charlie Bertsch / 09 Sep 2026

The Traumatic Bond with Fascism

The Night Porter, Directed by Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter is a film that people love to hate and hate to love.(...)

Homeless, with flag. Washington DC, 2020.

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Sabina Knight / 15 Aug 2026

Coming to Terms with America

Framing American Democracy: Contemporary Artists Reflect, Wadsworth Atheneum

Beset by fears for US democracy, how do disenchanted Americans celebrate our nation’s 250^th birthday?(...)

Culture

Charlie Bertsch / 13 Aug 2026

A Complicated Man

The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne, by Keith Kahn-Harris

In The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne, Keith Kahn-Harris traces the singer’s improbable transformation from a divisive figure into someone who brought the world together.(...)