Welcome to The Cultural Review

Essays about books, film, and art. Sometimes current but always curious.

The Cultural Review was born from the desire to seriously engage with literature, film, art, and ideas; and to share the experience with similarly passionate people.

Having longed for the atmosphere and spirit of pre-WWI Vienna coffee houses or that of a 1920s Parisian café I’ve realized it cannot be found and therefore must be created. My hope is that The Cultural Review can be that home.

“If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place”.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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