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Margot Robbie as Nellie LaRoy in Babylon. Courtesy Paramount Pictures. Photo: Scott Garfield.
It's never seemed q…
We'll return with a new issue on September 8! In our first summer missive, three filmmakers who left us wondering after their one-hit wonders.
Richard Romain as Peter Metoyer and Tommye Myr…
Please hold your emails"our assistant senior editor, Bolek, is currently eschewing all responsibilities.
4Columns is officially on summer vacation! We'll be back with a brand-new issue on S…
In the Drawing Center's comprehensive exhibit, an opportunity to see afresh the writer and artist's dreams and contradictions.
A Greater Beauty: The Drawings of Kahlil Gibran, installation …
Domestic bliss has gone amiss in two twentieth-century novellas by
Natalia Ginzburg and Rachel Ingalls.
The Road to the City, by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Gini Alhadeff, New Directio…
But does company love misery? A self-absorbed novelist attempts to finish his new book among vacationing friends in Christian Petzold's latest film.
Thomas Schubert as Leon, Paula Beer as N…
Wherever you go, there you are: in Deborah Levy's new novel, a disgraced concert pianist drifting around Europe repeatedly
runs into a doppelgänger.
August Blue, by Deborah Levy, Farrar, …
A video installation focusing on a catastrophic collision in American football history touches upon themes of violence, professional sports culture, and the strangeness of bodily experience.…
Drawing from the history of castrati singers, musicologist Bonnie Gordon explores connections between sound, voice, and the mechanization
of the physical body.
Voice Machines: The Castrato…
Paris verité: a 1981 neo-noir film about street life in the Pigalle district marks the directorial debut of French New Wave actress Juliet Berto.
Jean-François Stévenin as Willy, Rober…
Extremely loud and incredibly verbose: a new play from Robert Icke forgoes the subtleties of showing for too much telling.
Juliet Stevenson as Ruth Wolff and Juliet Garricks as Charlie in T…
Encyclopedia Black: the artist digs through educational materials and textbooks to create works revolving around power, racism,
and history's archive.
Samuel Levi Jones: Conscious Intuitio…
How many Wes Anderson films can fit into a Wes Anderson film?
Jake Ryan as Woodrow Steenbeck, Jason Schwartzman as Augie Steenbeck, and Tom Hanks as Stanley Zak in Asteroid City. Courtesy P…
Death rides shotgun, literally, in Lorrie Moore's novel about a middle-aged teacher who hits the road with his deceased ex-girlfriend in tow.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, by Lorrie…
The group's latest album channels the vibrant, yearning sounds and struggles of American history and personal loss.
Weathervanes, by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit,
Southeastern / Thirty Ti…
Run Muyu Run: in Xu Zechen's connected stories, young migrant workers drift, jog, and sprint through the capital.
Beijing Sprawl, by Xu Zechen, translated by Jeremy Tiang and Eric Abrahamse…
From dodging bullets in Chicago to secretly jamming in Vietnam to redefining jazz around the world, Henry Threadgill's story of negotiating a uniquely American chaos.
Easily Slip into Anoth…
A life, in millimeters: an exhibition details the bland, brutal violence of administration"and renders art complicit.
Sung Tieu: Civic Floor, installation view. Courtesy MIT List Visual Art…
Woodcraft, warcraft, witchcraft: Pietro Marcello's latest film blends realism and fantasy to tell a meandering tale of a father, daughter,
and their makeshift family.
Juliette Jouan as Jul…
Hair, trade, exploration, noodles: the complexities of diasporic movement in twenty-nine works.
Rina Banerjee: Black Noodles, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Perrotin. Photo: Gui…
Sinister sister, sister: adapted as a limited series, Cronenberg's 1988 film about perverted twin gynecologists gets a girl-boss makeover.
Rachel Weisz as Elliot Mantle and Beverly Mantle i…
A new novel by Henry Hoke captures and sets free the emotional inner life of P-22, the famed LA mountain lion.
Open Throat, by Henry Hoke, MCD, 160 pages, $25
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A tribute to all that we owe to the late, great queen of rock and roll.
Tina Turner and Ikettes perform for Bolic Sound KMET Broadcast, May 1973. Courtesy Warner Bros. Discovery.
1939"2023…
In a career retrospective of over three hundred works by the German conceptual artist, a refusal to be one thing.
Rosemarie Trockel, installation view. Courtesy Museum für Moderne Kunst. P…
Where there's a willy there's a way: João Pedro Rodrigues's new film about climate collapse, Portugal's colonial past, and homoerotics in the firehouse.
Mauro Costa as Alfredo and André…
