Business

Louisa Eunice|Essays

The afterlife of souvenirs: what survives between culture and commerce?

“Arts and crafts is the only creative industry where developing countries have a leading position in the global market.” What we often call kitsch may, in fact, be cultural endurance.

Arts + Culture

Ellen McGirt|Profiles

How to make a horror film with no money, no script, and lots of friends

“It started as a simple idea — this nurse brings cake to weird people, and they die — and then it became something else entirely, this kind of dark, psychological, surreal journey.” I’m speaking via video call with Rob James and Bruce McClure, the filmmakers behind District Nurse, an independent horror feature first released in … Continued

Architecture

Bruce Miller|Essays

A haunting on the prairie

An adman recounts the ghostly encounter that’s haunted him for half a century.