Category: Arts & Entertainment

15 Band Ideas for the Future

An Interruption from the Election Chaos Rachel Haywire Nov 04, 2024 Greetings, freaks and normies. I know you’re sick of all the electoin chaos by now. So, with the election one day away, I’ve decided to provide some levity as a woman. Who says autists can’t learn gender […]

A Richer Sense of Humanity

Ferdia Lennon’s novel Glorious Exploits brings to life an episode from the Peloponnesian War, when seven thousand Athenian soldiers were captured and crowded into a quarry outside Syracuse after a failed attack on the city. As Fintan O’Toole suggests in his review in our November 7, 2024, issue, the book “makes […]

On the Problem with Modern Architecture

by James Doone Arktos Journal Nov 02, 2024 James Doone discusses the decline of authenticity in contemporary architecture, mourning the departure from historical elegance and artistic depth in favour of a uniform and ugly modern aesthetic and the homogenisation brought by global urban influences. Beauty is produced by […]

The Metaphysics of the Mask

by Askr Svarte Arktos Journal Nov 01, 2024 Askr Svarte sheds light on the transformative nature of initiation, the concept of masks in ancient rites, and the theater of the soul, revealing how the mysteries invite one to experience divinity and self-realization beyond societal roles and mortality. Excerpt […]

Available from The Red Salon

Troy Southgate Oct 15, 2024 MY deep gratitude to Christina Taylor at The Red Salon for publishing my new haiku collection, Where the Thames Flows Into the Shinano, and for making such a wonderful job of it. I am also grateful to Robert Taylor and Juleigh Howard-Hobson for […]

Pepe vs the Snake Cult

by Michael Kumpmann Arktos Journal Oct 14, 2024 Michael Kumpmann explores how esotericists interpret animal symbols to explain political processes, drawing parallels between ancient myths like the Japanese legend of Jiraiya and modern political conspiracies involving snake and frog symbolism. Dark times reign in Nippon. Increasingly, shoguns — […]

Xiphos Cover Unveiled!

Troy Southgate Oct 09, 2024 WE are excited to report that the French label, Gladivs Records, is going to release the second XIPHOS album. There will be a digipack version and a limited edition available in the ‘In Illo Tempore’ collection. The album is titled The Age Of […]

Dear Abbey

This year marks the 1,300th anniversary of the founding of Reichenau Abbey, a Benedictine monastery on a lake island in the far south of Germany that for a few hundred years in the early Middle Ages was, as Beatrice Radden Keefe writes in the Review’s October 17 issue, […]

Unearthing Middle-earth’s European Roots

by Alexander Raynor Alexander Raynor Oct 04, 2024 Alexandor Raynor discusses Armand Berger’s Tolkien, Europe, and Tradition and how Tolkien forged a new mythology from our European heritage. Tolkien, Europe, and Tradition, by Armand Berger, is another volume in the Iliade Institute-Arktos collection. Berger offers a fascinating exploration […]

And now for something completely British

Market Garden’s ‘Flag’ as musical summary of Britain circa 2024 Luke Dodson Oct 02, 2024 Here on the psy-opped shores of perfidious Albion, shouty minimalist post-punk made a comeback during austerity years, as the ostensibly Tory wing of the globalist uniparty required an ostensibly left-wing controlled-opposition to make […]

Ways of Seeing

In April I got an e-mail from Julien Posture, who introduced himself as a PhD student, to ask about illustration, style, and the creative industry. After a lively conversation, I looked up his work and found that, in addition to writing about creativity, he was a wonderful illustrator, […]

Who’s afraid of photography?

Has an instinctive aversion to photography inhibited dissenting artists from producing potentially powerful and exciting art? I look again at the photographs of Anselm Kiefer. Alexander Adams Sep 13, 2024 [Anselm Kiefer, Der Rhein [The Rhine], 1969-2012, Electrolysis on photographic print mounted on lead, 380 × 1,100 cm […]

Talk Talk

Sponsored by the Brooklyn Book Festival Of the 7,164 or so extant languages on the planet, approximately seven hundred of them are spoken in New York City—“the most linguistically diverse city in history,” writes Ian Frazier in our September 19 issue. Reviewing a new book by Ross Perlin, codirector […]

Son of the Thin Man

In our September 19 issue, Andrew Katzenstein writes about one of Hollywood’s most distinctive contributions to the world: “The hope is that in figuring out what we mean by ‘screwball comedy,’ we might be better able to understand just what it is about these films that transports us.” Surveying […]

Tolkien and the Power of Myth

by Armand Berger Arktos Journal Sep 06, 2024 Armand Berger examines the timeless power of tradition and mythology, linking ancient European epics to J. R. R. Tolkien’s works as a guide for today’s youth. This is the introduction from Armand Berger’s Tolkien, Europe, and Tradition: From Civilisation to […]

This Is the Year of MILF Cinema

The year 2024 has already seen four movies revolving around older women in hot pursuit of younger men: Anne Hathaway’s The Idea of You, Nicole Kidman’s A Family Affair, Carol Kane’s Between the Temples, and Léa Drucker’s Last Summer. We’re set to get at least two more this […]

Re-Twyla

Brian Seibert ‘Carefully Plotted Chaos’ For decades the choreographer Twyla Tharp has been drawing on her past successes and even returning to earlier failures, looking to get it right this time. Victoria Baena Pitiless, Restless Brecht A recent show of Bertolt Brecht’s collages and ephemera suggested that he […]

How the Sun Rose

A dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton, on the art and illustrations in the Review’s August 15 issue. On a road trip this August, I stopped at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. The house she lived in for most of her life, including the bedroom […]

Psychogeography

A Few Thoughts Luke Dodson Aug 21, 2024 Guy Debord The term ‘psychogeography’ was coined by Guy Debord in the 1950s, who defined it as: “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of […]

Who’s Curing Who?

Hannah Zeavin ‘We Took Care of the Network’ The Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles imagined an asylum that could cure not only individual patients but society itself. Geoffrey Wheatcroft Lights, Camera, Royals Portraitists of kings and queens have long struggled to address a paradox: royalties are different but ordinary, […]