Rosa Campbell chronicles Shere Hite’s groundbreaking 1976 report on clitoral stimulation and its fate in the culture. The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere …
Maurice Pialat’s compassionate 1971 miniseries examines the Great War’s fracturing of civilian life. Hervé Lévy as Hervé Gardy and Michel Terrazon as Michel Latour in La maison…
Light in the dark, dark in the light: the Austrian Romani artist’s work is given space to speak for itself in a show at the Drawing Center. Ceija Stojka: Making Visible, installation view…
C'est cool . . . Ann Scott's novel set amid a '90s Parisian milieu of techno beats, club drugs, and bisexual ravers. Superstars, by Ann Scott, translated by Jonathan Woollen, Astra House, …
A traveling retrospective of essential viewing makes an elegiac landing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Noah Davis, installation view. Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art. Pictured, far …
Family tragedy and fracture evoke lingering questions in Sophy Romvari's debut feature, set on Vancouver Island. Still from Blue Heron. Courtesy Janus Films. Blue Heron, written and dir…
Created in collaboration with Anselm Kiefer, a new book by the late Alexander Kluge reveals the polymath's dizzying, allusive, spellbinding depths. Intelligence is the Art of Remaining Fai…
The critics aren't all right: this year's survey is a sharply political and totally sincere iteration. Whitney Biennial 2026, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Pho…
In a new retrospective series at Anthology, an indelible actress whose story remains full of ellipses. Tina Aumont as Henriette in Fellini's Casanova. © Universal. "La fille des étoile…
Adele Bertei's book forefronts the many women artists, filmmakers, and musicians who were integral to the no wave scene. No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene,…
Awkward parties, dreary bars, rudderless female narrator: Gwendoline Riley's latest is a delicate novel about love, friendship, and contempt. The Palm House, by Gwendoline Riley, New York …
Steven Soderbergh's intriguing new drama about the anguish of abandoning one's art. Michaela Coel as Lori Butler and Ian McKellen as Julian Sklar in The Christophers. Courtesy Neon. Photo: …
With her latest album, Sexistential, the artist enters her neurochemistry era. Sexistential, by Robyn, Young 'Â Â 'Â Â ' That sound you heard last November when Robyn relea…
In Ben Lerner's fourth novel, the dilemma of a broken phone powers a story about consciousness and connection. Transcription, by Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 130 pages, $25 '…
Lovers, friends, rivals, antagonists: Andrew Durbin's revelatory biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek. The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, by Andrew …
We're taking a spring-break hiatus, but will be returning on Friday, April 3! 4Columns mascot Sparky and assistant senior editor Bolek are looking forward to taking things bird by bird duri…
A collection of poetry by one of Fernando Pessoa's most gifted heteronyms presents an ode to the antidisciplinarian spirit. The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis, by Fernando Pessoa, edited by…
In the artist's exhibition, an unsettling visual travelogue through Black history and the American South. Ralph Lemon: From Out of Space, installation view. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery. P…
The unheimlich maneuver: Christian Petzold's film pits the cozy rituals of domesticity against the eeriness of family secrets. Philip Froissant as Jakob, Paula Beer as Laura, and Barbara Au…
The latest book by Constance Debré explores the horrors and bonds of shared violence and its role as mediating force. Offenses, by Constance Debré, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Semiot…
Ãlvaro Enrigue's latest novel intricately weaves Mexican-western pastiche with autofiction and historical research. Now I Surrender, by Ãlvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer, R…
It's alive! Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bride of Frankenstein reboot is a stupefying series of almost-good ideas. Christian Bale as Frank and Jessie Buckley as The Bride in The Bride! Photo: Niko T…
Help, I need somebody . . . Through the tenth season of the unscripted TV show, questions of intimacy, drama, personal growth, and Plato. Emma Betsinger and Mike Gibney in season 10 of Love…
In the duo's new hip-hop album, I Guess U Had to Be There, a lyricism that finds its solidarity with the '60s. I Guess U Had to Be There, by Elucid & Sebb Bash, Backwoodz Studioz …
Mosh pits and Mexican family drama: Jaime Hernandez's loving chronicles of two Chicana punk-teens and their extended universe in the '80s and '90s. Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories, b…