Nina Power

With Barbie, Greta Gerwig has made the box-office record for a film directed by a woman, raking in at least $155 million over the weekend. Barbie, along with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, is also part of a summer cinema revival, with audiences for both films dressing up (pink for Barbie, black for the bomb) in a surprise return to the days when media consumption wasn’t so grimly siloed across numerous digital platforms. Perhaps even the most die-hard post-Covid shut-in has grown weary of yet

For someone working in the culture industries, the only thing worse than having the wrong position on a political controversy is having no position at all. Today’s artists are the high priests of the secular middle classes, with cathedrals (art galleries) in every major city. In recent years, rather

More than any other living academic, Judith Butler has seen her ideas seep out into the real world—in particular, a version of one of them.