Cut Through The Consensus
Poetry, fiction, theatre, painting: what ties them all together, and makes them all art? 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...
