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A setup familiar to contemporary fiction and romance ends up defying expectations in the latest novel by Claire-Louise Bennett.
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, by Claire-Louise Bennett,
Riverhead Books…
A collection of three dozen essays examines the intertwined histories of built environments and the scourges they harbor, house, and cause.
Sick Architecture, edited by Beatriz Colomina wit…
Jamie Lloyd's new production of Samuel Beckett's play is in danger of punking a classic most heinously.
Alex Winter as Vladimir and Keanu Reeves as Estragon in Waiting for Godot. Courtesy D…
In the late writer-director's works, portraits of headstrong women under the influence of adventurous spirits.
Emmanuelle Devos as Pomme in If You Don't, I Will. Courtesy L'Alliance New Yor…
A new retrospective at the Jewish Museum showcases the artist's commitment to the fight against fascism and oppression.
Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity, installation view. Courtesy the Jewish M…
In Paul Thomas Anderson's action-comedy-drama about members of a leftist militant group, tidy ideologies make for a story more
soothing than disquieting.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson …
The singer's sixteenth studio album, Here for It All.
Here for It All, by Mariah Carey, Gamma
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Pop superstars, whose talents are so often eroded by the rigors of …
Absurdities, conspiracies, homegrown fascists: in Thomas Pynchon's novel set in 1932, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, 2…
Tess of the suburbanvilles and pills: in Natasha Stagg's second novel, a woman looks back on her tumultuous early-2000s adolescence.
Grand Rapids, by Natasha Stagg,
Semiotext(e), 221 pages…
A Rock and a soft place: in Benny Safdie's biopic, Dwayne Johnson plays UFC champ Mark Kerr as a brawler with a big heart.
Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. Courtesy A24.…
The first solo show outside France of the Canadian artist, who died in her early thirties in 1983, presents tantalizing works haunted by an atmosphere of absence and loss.
Alix Cléo Roubau…
Wateryworld: language and its faults make for a story of amphibolous feelings in the inaugural installment of Jon Fosse's new trilogy set in a small fishing town.
Vaim, by Jon Fosse, transl…
A new book by artist Lana Lin drawing from Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas digs into the Asian understory
of Stein's and Toklas's writings.
The Autobiography of H. La…
In two films by Chantal Akerman playing as part of MoMA's complete retrospective, teenage heroines ramble through city streets
hungering for more.
Pascale Salkin and Maria de Medeiros in J…
Three decades after they were taken, the artist's photographs of historical armor take on a terrifying gleam of violent ideology and elitist systems.
Zoe Leonard: Display, installation view…
A 1979 Linton Kwesi Johnson documentary by Franco Rosso is a portrait of the artist as principled activist.
Linton Kwesi Johnson in Dread Beat an Blood. Courtesy Seventy-Seven.
Dread Beat …
Through the works of Kafka, Berger, Sebald, and more, Kate Zambreno's book reflects on our perceptions of nonhuman animals and
our own animal nature.
Animal Stories, by Kate Zambreno,
Tra…
Dag Johan Haugerud's trilogy concludes with the portrayal of a teenager who writes a manuscript detailing her infatuation with
her high school teacher.
Selome Emnetu as Johanna and Ella Ã…
The specters of history and photography haunt thirty-two works in the artist's first US survey in over twenty years.
Stan Douglas: Ghostlight, installation view. Courtesy Hessel Museum of A…
In a new live album, protest music that proves the regenerative power of naming and withholding names.
Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople, by Saul Williams and C…
Epic and anarchic: a trio of installations showcase the artist's rangy, timeless world-making.
Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, installation view. Courtesy T…
A documentary on the "Nazi directress" by Andres Veiel raises new questions about art, ethics, and judgment.
Leni Riefenstahl during the CBC interview "Leni Riefenstahl in her own words," 1…
The poet, the political scientist, the historian, the curator,
the cosmopolitan Africanist.
Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse and Volume 2: Cur…
Two volumes of the late critic and curator's writings provide a crucial orienting point from which to expand the horizons of contemporary art.
Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: To…
Come one, come all, come see what we have in store for you this fall!
Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories, installation view. Courtesy Turner Contemporary. Photo…
