Olivia Poust

Check out my full interview with Gregory Maguire, the author of "Wicked," in the first episode of the CRC's new podcast!

My latest blog for Sapientia explores the addition of the tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice in Chloé Zhoe's film adaptation of "Hamnet."

"Look at me" becomes a refrain throughout the film, turning the myth on its head.

It Is Famine | ONE Magazine Pope Leo XIV has described the situation in Gaza as the “iniquitous use of hunger as a weapon of war.”

I wrote a story for the September edition of ONE magazine about the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Read it here.

"Trump just announced that CBS will also give him $20 million in airtime, through ads and programming. Ask not what you can do for censorship — ask what censorship can do for you!"

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My latest for Sapientia.

Did you catch @gibsonwrites.bsky.social, director of the CRC, at Lectures on Tap last Thursday? 🍷👨‍🏫

He presented "Popes, Conclaves, and Pop Culture" at @caveatnyc.bsky.social on the Lower East Side. 🎬🍿

Absolute Déjà Vu | SAPIENTIA There is nothing like a visit to Paris to feel the power of protest. The revolution’s memory is in the stones and soil, its legacy in the spirit of the people. It manifests itself in myriad ways in ev...

Olivia Poust, assistant director of the CRC, visited Versailles as "No Kings" protests swept the United States. In this blog post, she reflects on the current political reality in the U.S. in relation to the history of absolutism in France under Louis XIV.

“The marriage of visual identity and social perception is essential to understanding Black dandyism as stylistic, cultural, historical, sociological, and philosophical. Transcendent and subversive, it is both a celebration of identity and a dissent against the violence under which it was born.”

Nurith Aviv’s Dual Identities and Dueling Languages | SAPIENTIA Fordham co-sponsored a retrospective of the work of the Tel Aviv-born French filmmaker, who broke barriers for women in cinema while examining sensitive topics for Jews and other immigrants.

Fordham co-sponsored a retrospective of Nurith Aviv’s work. Her film “From Language to Language” explores the dichotomy of language in Israel, examining Hebrew as a shared language that fosters a sense of belonging, but that also contributes to a double consciousness. Olivia Poust for #Sapientia.