by Michael Kumpmann Arktos Journal Feb 26, 2025 The German Hygiene Museum in Dresden. Michael Kumpmann, reflecting on the recent German parliamentary debates about the Bauhaus and the AfD-triggered controversy, delves into the movement’s complex legacy — examining its ties to modernist architecture, craftsmanship, esotericism, and even Freemasonry […]
WEB VERSION February 24, 2025 All Is Unfinished The philosopher Henri Bergson’s visit to New York in 1913 was the cause of Broadway’s first traffic jam. His fame and influence at the time are somewhat hard to believe now given that he is a thinker mostly forgotten save […]
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by James Doone Arktos Journal Feb 17, 2025 James Doone foresees a future where samizdat returns, as the West now mirrors Soviet-era censorship, silencing dissent and rewriting history, forcing truth to be smuggled from Moscow to Bristol. “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take […]
15 February, 2025 Bryan Mercadente Directed by: Andrey Bogatyrev Written by: Pavel Abramov, Andrey Bogatyrev Starring: Aleksei Shevchenkov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yuriy Borisov Release Date: December 10, 2020 (Russia) Available on: Amazon Prime Video I was flicking the other night through Amazon Prime in search of a sicko […]
Sponsored by Classical Pursuits In our February 13 issue, Blair McClendon reviews “Edges of Ailey,” the Whitney Museum’s show about the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey, curated by Adrienne Edwards. “If Ailey’s dances come across as pleasurable rather than noxiously pandering to a received idea of blackness, it is not solely […]
Sponsored by Penguin Press Alma Guillermoprieto A Telenovela Macondo Netflix’s adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude has skimmed off only the melodramatic and the anecdotal parts of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece. David Cole The Unhinged Presidency Many of the legal challenges to Donald Trump’s executive overreach will come down […]
Sponsored by the University of California Press In the Review’s February 27 issue, Christopher Benfey reads Emily Dickinson’s letters. “A century of writing about Dickinson has clarified important aspects of her poetry,” he writes (a Dickinson scholar himself, Benfey has contributed to that century with a dozen essays in our pages alone about […]
by Henri Levavasseur Arktos Journal Feb 11, 2025 XII Symposium of the Iliad Institute Saturday 5 April 2025 in the Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France The theme will be “Thinking Tomorrow’s Labour: Identity, Community, Power”. Globalization and financialisation, deindustrialisation and tertiarisation, digitisation and dematerialisation, uberisation and casualisation, […]
My latest homemade single is LIVE on all streaming platforms! Listen: Spotify, Youtube, Apple Music Buy & Download Track: Bandcamp This song is a really cool vibe.. perhaps surprisingly, I wrote it and put it all together in just 3 days as it channeled to me so seamlessly. […]
The Opening Statement – Winter 2025 Check out Issue 23 of The Opening Statement, a free quarterly newsletter that features articles, poetry, political writing and opinion pieces by people inside and outside of prison. THE OPENING STATEMENT – WINTER 2025 (CLICK THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD PDF) ARTICLES AND […]
Sponsored by Creative Writing Program at NYU Arts & Science Ben Tarnoff More Babies! Trump and his set act carefree in the face of catastrophe—and they give their supporters permission to do the same. Irina Dumitrescu The Great Leap Backward Lea Ypi’s memoir of her childhood in Communist […]
David Lynch’s cinema exists in a place where damnation and transcendence are real, allowing us access to primitive knowledge. Alexander Adams Feb 09, 2025 [David Lynch, Lost Highway, 1997] When David Lynch died last month aged 78, what was noticeable about the tributes was the range of viewpoints […]
3 February, 2025 Bryan Mercadente Tale of the Nine-Tailed Directed by: Kang Shin-hyo Written by: Han Woo-ri Original Network: tvN Year of Release: 2020 Available on: Prime Video I stumbled upon Tale of the Nine-Tailed on Prime Video while in search of yet another good Oriental fantasy […]
6 February, 2025 Bryan Mercadente A League of Nobleman Directed by: Yang Fan and Jia Xiao Xiong Written by: Adapted from The Mystery of Zhang Gong by Da Feng Gua Guo Original Network: Tencent Video Year of Release: 2023 Available on: Prime Video A League of Nobleman was […]
winter oak Read on blog or Reader W.E.B. Du Bois and the Power of People’s Music: Why We Need Another Folk Music Revival By winter oak on February 8, 2025 by W.D. James Where did the folk music go? Popular resistance continues to manifest itself around the world. Even nascent […]
Troy Southgate Feb 07, 2025 I WAS perusing some material by French thinker Henri Bergson (1859–1941) that caused me to consider its political and linguistic ramifications for modern society. It was Bergson who famously argued that consciousness cannot be quantified in the way that one can measure bodies […]
“No album captures the vibes of our times like this one. The discordant electrical squawking reminds us of the looming techpocalypse.” Rachel Haywire Feb 04, 2025 Welcome to the Culture and Couture Brief, a new feature at The Cultural Futurist. We’re creating tastemakers for the new regime. This […]
WEB VERSION February 3, 2025 Remembering David Lynch (1946–2025) In January, the iconic American auteur died at the age of 78. A painter, writer, and film and TV director, Lynch was good at nearly everything he tried his hand at. He was also deftly skilled at operating in […]
B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown: A Review By David Mandl The Comics Journal November 14th, 2024 In the long historical line of public figures who have “gone native,” B. Traven stands out. The (probably) American-born writer, best known as the author of the novel The Treasure […]
An average mazing of mistakes, / The kind that everybody makes / Set random intervals apart. By A.E. Stallings, from POETRY (May 2020); recently featured on Poetry Foundation’s Audio Poem of the day podcast. Daedal To build a labyrinth it takes A twisted mind, a puzzled art, A […]
A Poem By Kuwasi Balagoon A poem by Kuwasi Balagoon The Leaves Are Changing To Shades Of Fire Rust N Indigo In Waves And All At Once And One By One Different In Their Deaths Like All Times An Love Ones An Memories Of Places Faded From Lack […]
by Chōkōdō Shujin Chōkōdō Shujin Jan 30, 2025 Chōkōdō Shujin emphasizes that the essential progress of drama depends not on current theatrical equipment but on the freedom and creativity of the playwright’s envisioned stage, which transcends conventional theater boundaries and drives the evolution of the art. In the […]
2 January, 2025 Bryan Mercadente Bibliographic Details: Title: The Matrix Directors: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski Producers: Joel Silver Screenplay: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski Music: Don Davis Cinematography: Bill Pope Editing: Zach Staenberg Production Companies: Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures Release Date: March […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This may or may not be the literal Armageddon but just peeking through the shades I can tell you that it’s looking pretty goddamn apocalyptic to me. As I write this acidic screed, the only square mile of […]
Deborah Eisenberg Urgent Messages from Eternity An exhibition of Franz Kafka’s postcards, letters, and manuscript pages rekindles our sense of him as a writer deeply connected to his own time and place. Yonatan Mendel Israel: Life by the Sword For fifteen months Israel’s government clung to the fantasy […]
Constantin von Hoffmeister Jan 21, 2025 We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. — Count Dracula to Jonathan Harker, in Dracula (1897) SPOILER ALERT Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu (2024) drags its audience […]
No wonder “they” never gave him an Oscar Kevin Barrett Jan 17, 2025 Ron Unz recently noted “the sharp decline in quality of the New York Times.” He might have added that we can still learn things from the Times by reading between the lines, the way Soviet-era […]
The Nintendo Switch 2 Is Playing It Safe. That’s the Smart Choice Matt Kamen Why mess with what works? READ Nintendo Officially Announces Switch 2 Megan Farokhmanesh Following weeks of leaks and wild speculation, Nintendo gave fans a first look at […]
“These marvelous stories inhabit a bewitched space. Borges and Poe are evident, but more importantly Buzzati’s alchemical blend of the known world and some other, invading realm looks forward to the time of Stephen King, and Robert Aickman, and Shirley Jackson. These are tales that stick to your […]
A Complete Unknown Offers a New Myth of Dylan Alex Taylor To use Bob Dylan’s songs as a metaphor, the words of the substance of doctrine must remain the same, even as the music of its presentation might change from society to society. A Complete Unknown suggests that […]
WEB VERSION January 13, 2025 Art is Disagreement James Mangold’s new Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, is suffused with unspecific nostalgia. Why does it feel familiar? What elements of the past is it conjuring for the present? The film, which stars Hollywood wonder waif Timothée Chalamet, is one […]
Sponsored by the University of Chicago Press In the Review’s early years, our covers often featured the opening paragraphs of the first article in the issue, drawing newsstand patrons in with writing by V.S. Pritchett, William Styron, Norman Mailer, or Susan Sontag. This design was gradually replaced by a […]
Sponsored by Columbia University Press The nineteenth-century French literary critic Sainte-Beuve once accused Honoré de Balzac of, as Peter Brooks writes in the Review’s January 16 issue, “a kind of unhealthy success with his female readership,” faulting the novelist for knowing “many things about women, their emotional and sensual […]
“The great art movements of history mimic the trajectory of civilizations.” Rachel Haywire Jan 02, 2025 It’s 2025 and we’re still ahead of our time, but maybe time is finally catching up with us. Last year I decided I was going to do what I had been wanting […]
by Christian Chensvold Arktos Journal Jan 03, 2025 Christian Chensvold reflects on the ballet as a sublime embodiment of the European imagination, a forgotten wellspring of creative spirit that must be rediscovered to revive a civilization on the brink of collapse. Planet Earth has never known a force […]
In a time when high art is toothless, outsider and fantasy art allow us to confront primal fears and desires Alexander Adams Dec 27, 2024 H.R. Giger, Bio-mechanical Landscape (1976), acrylic on paper, 200 x 100 cm, © Estate of H.R. Giger 1. Studying the early period of […]
Our January 16 issue is now online, with James Shapiro on the Gen Z Romeo and Juliet, Ursula Lindsey on Syria after Assad, Adam Hochshild on the Scopes trial, Elaine Blair on the literature of consent, David Shulman on Israeli indifference, Darryl Pinckney on James Baldwin getting his due, […]
Brendan Graham Dempsey joins us to discuss the explosive creative relationship between Wagner and Nietzsche and debate the approaches to art and mythology that appear in metamodern and dark Renaissance thought. The first ~40 minutes are a more scholarly discussion about Wagner and Nietzsche; after this, we get […]
winter oak Read on blog or Reader Father Christmas is Part of the Resistance By winter oak on December 20, 2024 by W.D. James And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the […]
by Dr. Charles William Dailey Dr. Charles William Dailey Dec 17, 2024 Dr. Charles William Dailey argues that authentic individuals and true art reveal a holistic understanding of existence, while the masses and pseudo-artworks remain trapped in routine and external programming, unable to uncover deeper truth or meaning. […]
Regina Marler The Cuttlefish’s Play Richard Powers’s Playground does for oceans what his 2018 novel The Overstory did for trees: it implores us to open ourselves to the ingenuity of life beyond the human. Ange Mlinko The Shoals of Prose Recent books of prose by two of our best poets suggest the […]
by Dmitry Moiseev Arktos Journal Dec 15, 2024 Dmitry Moiseev explores Otto Rahn’s bold reinterpretation of Lucifer and Apollo as symbols of light and divinity within Cathar spirituality, contrasting them with traditional Christian narratives and linking them to the metaphysical traditions of medieval Provence, ultimately unveiling a pantheistic […]
Kristin Lavransdatter: An Entertaining Examination of Conscience Henry T. Edmondson III It is through Kristin’s eyes that we understand the melancholy contours of Christian life, including the unavoidable hardships that fall upon the just and the unjust. Kristin’s is a lifelong adventure in understanding herself before God, a […]
Jorie Graham’s poem in our December 5, 2024, issue begins: The Killing Spree whizzed past, we liked the look of it, it liquefied death, it was here to stay, it actually had nowhere else to go, was in its last stages now, longed to be revelation, longed to be […]
Troy Southgate Nov 25, 2024 IN 2009 I contributed vocals to an Elvatorium track called ‘Gaze Into the Abyss’ and both this and two other tracks have just been made available by Polish composer Radek Kordasiewicz. Known as the Scabs EP, this is a release that contains the […]
November 15, 2024 | Read Online In partnership with Here’s what you can do when your bank starts apologizing You may have gotten a ‘sorry’ email from your bank, saying that if you had a 5% APY cash account, that privilege is being snatched away. And […]
Sponsored by the Classical Pursuits Ruth Bernard Yeazell is a scholar of the novel whose work has focused more on the visual arts than the average literary critic’s. She has written for The New York Review not only about Austen, Dickens, and George Eliot, but also about Frans Hals, Vermeer, female […]
On the eve of Veteran’s Day, Sabin Howard, sculptor of a new memorial in Washington DC, talks to me of rebellion and the preservation of a sacred fire. Alexander Adams Nov 09, 2024 [Sabin Howard, A Soldier’s Journey (2024) © the artist] I. On a sunny June day, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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