List of Culture articles
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Scenes from VR video games Virtual Reality Takes on Historical Trauma
A wave of new Polish games reexamines Soviet repression.
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An Iranian woman walks past a new mural painted on the walls of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran Tehran Paints Over Its Anti-American Murals
The city’s old public art showed a United States to be feared. The new ones depict a country that is weaker, more laughable, and riddled with its own problems.
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A scene from "Abominable" taken in a theater and shared by Vietnamese media. Hollywood Is Paying an ‘Abominable’ Price for China Access
A kid’s movie has turned into a geopolitical nightmare for DreamWorks.
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Israel G. Vargas illustration for Foreign Policy/Netflix/Amazon The Great Indian Streaming Wars
The battle over the country’s future is being waged one TV screen—and smartphone—at a time.
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A scene from the film Jirga. Lightyear Entertainment How War Traumatizes the Victims and the Perpetrators
On the podcast: A new film explores the experience of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
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The movie poster for "One Child Nation." The Dark Legacy of China’s One-Child Policy
On the podcast: The filmmaker Nanfu Wang tells the harrowing story of her own family’s one-child ordeal.
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The Chinese-Canadian singer and former K-pop star Kris Wu performs in New York City on Nov. 6, 2018. K-Pop’s Big China Problem
Chinese stars are spinning off in their own orbit as politics gets in the way of profit.
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Liu Yifei in Disney’s live-action Mulan. Let a Thousand Mulans Bloom
The upcoming Disney film is already a cultural battleground. But China’s most famous heroine thrives in many tellings.
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A wine vessel attributed to the Niobid Painter of Athens. Pandora’s Vox
Thousands of years ago, the ancient Greeks anticipated robots and artificial intelligence—and they didn’t trust them.
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Supporters wave U.S. flags as they attend the Rally for America event at Marshall University stadium May 24, 2003 in Huntington, West Virginia. You Can’t Defeat Nationalism, So Stop Trying
There are deep reasons that imagined communities will always be a powerful reality in international politics.
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Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pose for a photo with their newborn baby son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London on May 8, 2019. Archie Windsor Isn’t the Symbol You Think He Is
The newest royal baby represents his country's future identity: not multicultural, but overwhelmingly mixed-race and entirely British.
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Daenerys aims her dragon at King’s Landing in HBO's Game of Thrones. ‘Game of Thrones,’ War Crimes, and the American Conscience
Audience anger serves as a warning about indiscriminate violence.
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Actor Chen Xuedong, actor Zheng Kai, singer and actor Lu Han, actor Zhang Hanyu, actor and singer Andy Lau, actress Jing Tian, director Zhang Yimou, American actor Matt Damon, Chilean-born American actor Pedro Pascal, American actor Willem Dafoe, actor Eddie Peng, actor Lin Gengxin, singer and actor Wang Junkai attend the premiere of Zhang Yimou's film "The Great Wall" on December 6, 2016 in Beijing, China. Chinese Film Studios Are Blacklisting Americans
As the trade war escalates, producers are killing projects and sacking actors.
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Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. What to Read If ‘Game of Thrones’ Let You Down
Five reads that do political fantasy better than HBO.
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The pop star Seungri, implicated in an abuse scandal, arrives at a Seoul police station on March 14. South Korea’s Darkest Clubs Are Being Dragged Into the Light
The Burning Sun investigation has exposed horrors against women—and men getting away with it.
