Cultural Studies

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

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  Writing to Liberate Yourself

  Matthew K. Ritchie interviews Lawrence Burney about his new book, “No Sense in Wishing.”

  Matthew K. RitchieSep 3

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Cultural Studies

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  A Child in the State of Nature

  Mitchell Abidor reviews the reprint edition of Roger Shattuck’s “The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron.”

  Mitchell AbidorAug 19

  • History

  • Cultural Studies

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  The Gaza Generation

  Shaan Sachdev explores Pankaj Mishra’s “The World After Gaza: A History,” moral authority, and a generation of young dissenters.

  Shaan SachdevAug 9

  • Politics

  • Cultural Studies

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  Delicate and Dirty

  Ben Arthur revisits a transformative moment in American culture through the lens of J. Hoberman’s “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop.”

  Ben ArthurAug 7

  • History

  • Cultural Studies

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  Some Women Want to Wear It

  Soraya Sebghati outlines a canon of 21st-century Iranian film.

  Soraya SebghatiJul 28

  • Film

  • Cultural Studies

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  What Do They Want, What Do They Want, What Do They Want?

  Kevin Koczwara reminisces on Jim Carrey’s film oeuvre, from “Ace Ventura” and “Man on the Moon” to “Sonic the Hedgehog 3.”

  Kevin KoczwaraJul 28

  • Film

  • Cultural Studies

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  Viral Language

  Helena Aeberli looks for rizz in Adam Aleksic’s “Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language.”

  Helena AeberliJul 20

  • Cultural Studies

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  I Watch the Witch Burn

  Reece Sisto reviews Jeff Weiss’s “Waiting for Britney Spears.”

  Reece SistoJun 29

  • Fiction

  • Cultural Studies

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  The Undying Chinese Writing System

  Colin Marshall reviews two books about the past and present of the Chinese writing system.

  Colin MarshallJun 27

  • Cultural Studies

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  Paranoia, Perspicacity, and Afro-Asian Pessimism

  Anne Anlin Cheng looks deeper into Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” and its violent exploration of racial oppression.

  Anne Anlin ChengJun 11

  • Film

  • Cultural Studies

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  Two Maoisms

  Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.

  Guobin YangJun 7

  • History

  • Cultural Studies

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  Daughters Are Not Like Spilled Water

  Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews recent books about the aftermath of China’s one-child policy and the experience of women in contemporary China.

  Susan Blumberg-KasonJun 5

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Cultural Studies