Brian has written extensively about topics ranging from contemporary urban gentrification to the history of boxing; the Presidency of Donald Trump to an analysis of 21st century global capitalism; heroin addiction in modern American society to the cultural history of Boston, Massachusetts; the ideology of neoliberal globalization to Amazonian plant medicine; contemporary cinema to astrology.
His books include The Meaning of Trump, Postscript on Boxing, There is No Such Thing as Boston, Conversations on Gentrification, On Heroin, Spontaneous Reflections, The Ayahuasca Dialogues, Hypermodernity and the End of the World, The Brian Francis Culkin Reader, Boxing and Cinema, Bread (a Play), Fragments of Boston, The Phone Thief, Rene Girard and COVID-19, An Essay on Cancel Culture, Spontaneous Reflections Volume II, Video Essays, Archetypes and Processes(2023), Studies in Symbolic Astrology(2023), Two Essays on Astrology (2023), and Three Short Plays(2023).