Cut Through The Consensus
Our new frame for all things artistic.
Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' attempts to make an ancient hero morally legible to a modern audience, but Homer never intended Odysseus to be a...
'Cutting Takes' hosted a poetry competition. Here is our winner.
Ian McEwan’s latest book disavows the climate novel, in order to become one.
Ben Lerner’s Transcription (2026) tells the story of a conspicuously anonymous narrator, who goes to meet his mentor and former professor Thomas for...
Zander Fitzgerald provides some meditations on George Saunders' Vigil and starting a book club.
Where is the war in The Flanders Road (1960)? Where is the war in Iran? There is no war in Claude Simon’s The...
How the backlash against the “relatable” confuses commercial affirmation with genuine recognition.
Thomas Mann's attitudes towards politics and culture shifted throughout his literary career — what can we learn from his mutability?
From gothic tragedy to bodice-ripper, Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” strips the original text of any complexity, moral ambiguity or intrigue to leave a...
Earlier this autumn I had the opportunity of watching Oliver Hermanus’ new film, The History of Sound (2025), when it was screened at...
Historical grand strategy games attempt to present a model of history that is both authentic and engaging. Good games in this genre should...
Cartier’s jewels ask a simple question: who gets to own beauty, and why?
Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation is interesting because the very medium of film forces the Russian doll approach: opening up the novel, and showing...
Films face significant creative and practical constraints. With direct adaptations, it becomes a fine line between originality and loyalty to the source material....
What Ionesco’s play forces us to consider is the danger of naturalising arbitrary cultural choices, which was a danger he knew all too...
In the shroud of post-Franco recovery enter the Thyssens, imploding into the Spanish artistic scene when the country was at its most fragile....
Do Ho Suh is a Korean-born artist, now working in London, whose work uses the spatial medium of sculpture to explore questions of...
Unfaithful adaptation? Whitewashed? Soft porn on the moors? What exactly is Emerald Fennell's adaptation going to look like?
I decided to read Proust. Recently graduated, and armed with a highly sought after degree in English and French literature, I found that...
Explorers from a space-faring civilization stumble upon a remote planet inhabited by an enigmatic, but technologically inferior alien species. Cultural differences lead to...
