Culture

A Childhood Exorcised

Jeanette Winterson's adoptive mother was like no other.

Sanhita SinhaRoy

Culture

No Bark, Less Bite—That Dog Don’t Hunt

Are America's long-running culture wars drawing to a close?

Chris Lehmann

Culture

There Will Be Paranoia

As long as there are dispossessed white people, there will be conspiracies.

Steve Weinberg

Culture

The Second Coming of El Papa to Cuba

Pope Benedict XVI makes common cause with the Castro brothers.

Samuel Farber

Culture

W.W.I: The War That Begat Another

The Lost History of 1914 shows how that year began to sow the seeds of Nazism.

Eve Ottenberg

Culture

Lifting the Veil on Iranian Censors

With A Separation, Asghar Farhadi artfully subverts Iran's reactionary big-screen rules.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

A Hipstamatic Moment

Kodak is bankrupt. But we still crave the instant nostalgia that was once the company's hallmark.

Chris Lehmann

Culture

The Iron Lady’s Mad Shadow

Margaret Thatcher's gut instincts influenced the next generation of politicians, from Blair to Bush.

Jane Miller

Culture

A Puritan’s Dilemma

Religion, politics and the agony of David Foster Wallace.

Theo Anderson

Culture

When Less is More Political Engagement

The only good thing about our new age of austerity is how it inspires a new wave of activists.

Jane Miller

Culture

Required Viewing: 2011’s Top Political Films

From The Black Power Mixtape to Werner Herzog's Into the Abyss, here's what you need to watch now.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

Christopher Hitchens: A D.C. Requiem

The fawning homages triggered by the prolific polemicist's death missed the true tragedy of his later career.

Chris Lehmann

Culture

ALEC’s Arizona Escort Service

Our intrepid reporter learns he is not welcome at an annual summit for business-friendly lawmakers.

Beau Hodai

Culture

Unequal Rites

Peyote sacraments and the First Amendment.

Remy Maldigian

Culture

What to Do About the Nanny?

Behind the female literati's neglect of its working-class sisters.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Culture

Hollywood’s Fraud-Free Fantasies

On the big and small screens, the entertainment industry fails to explain why the U.S. economy collapsed.

Chris Lehmann

Culture

Guided by Our Grandchildren

It's hard not to be inspired by the youthful idealism at the center of the Occupy movement.

Jane Miller

Culture

Matana Roberts’ Genealogy of Jazz

The saxophonist delves into African-American history—from slavery to the present—in her twelve-part series Coin Coin.

Frances Morgan

Culture

Siri and the High-Tech Gender Gap

The bad habits of the iPhone 4's voice are a reminder: America's tech developers are overwhelmingly male.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Culture

Our Mutual Enemy: Money

Like Dickens' cast of characters, we remain bewildered by money—and our lack of it.

Jane Miller

Culture

Introducing: Lady Loser Comedy

A new feminist genre gives women a chance to be crass, pathetic and hilarious.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Culture

Au Revoir, Noblesse Oblige

The sense of duty America's ruling class once felt to support the greater good is gone.

Chris Lehmann

Culture

The Secrets, Lies and Elisions of J. Edgar

Clint Eastwood's biopic of the FBI Director inventively avoids the massive damage he inflicted.

Michael Atkinson

Culture

Gordon Quinn: Man With a Movie Camera

The veteran documentarian looks back over 45 years of filmmaking, and finds change to be the crucial constant.

David Moberg