Tag: Culture
Culture
Tolkien’s Deplorable Cultus
Robert T. Tally Jr. reads Tolkien’s corpus with the tools of Marxist literary criticism, delivering a devastating blow to the fantasy writer’s rightist fans.
Robert T. Tally Jr.
August 20, 2024
aesthetics
The Guilty Superhero
Stephen Strother reviews Oppenheimer. Strother argues that, despite its Oscar-worthy trappings, the film remains a superhero movie.
Stephen Strother
September 25, 2023
Art world
Art Workers Rise Up
For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking anti-racist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.
Art Workers' Inquiry
July 15, 2020