477 stories from 4columns
Philosophy, case study, biography, fiction: four newly published
page-turners to add to your bookshelf.
As the dog days of summer wind down to an end and we brace for September, four criti…
Songs to sweat by: a roundup of four new music recommendations.
What is the perfect summer album? Based on this week's picks by four 4Columns critics, beauty truly is in the ear of the beho…
A quartet of art recommendations, spanning both sides of the Atlantic.
NO-PHOTO 2025, installation view. Both posters captioned "Photo: Hatem Khaled, Khan Younis, 19 May 2025." Courtesy NO-…
Three movies in which moviemaking itself plays a starring role.
Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in Babylon. Courtesy Paramount Pictures. Photo: Scott Garfield.
The youngest art form, cine…
For our third summer missive, reviews that center on place and
feelings of home.Â
Stephen Shore, U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973, 1973. Chromogenic color print, p…
United we stan this trio of films focusing on activists and revolutionaries.
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart in BPM. Courtesy Céline Nieszawer.
During the first iteration of the Trump kakistocrac…
Ciarán Finlayson and Johanna Fateman at the MANIFESTO! event on March 19, 2025.
On March 19, 2025, a rowdy audience packed into KGB Bar in downtown Manhattan, elbow-to-elbow, knee-to-kne…
4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek is looking forward to some time away from the city.
4Columns is taking a short seasonal hiatus"but we'll be returning with a fresh new issue on Septem…
Quiet chaos, comedic sparks, Bette Midler tunes: Abby Rosebrock's play illuminates the fragile emotional dynamics of a Tinder dinner date.
Babak Tafti as David in Lowcountry. Photo: Ahron R…
In Marlen Haushofer's 1958 novella, a riveting and disturbing tale of blame, shame, and consequence.
Killing Stella, by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside,
New Directions, 87 …
Albert Serra continues his provocative explorations of white European power and decadence in a documentary about
bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey.
Andrés Roca Rey (center foreground) in After…
The beautiful, anti-bourgeois, language-breaking works of the
twentieth-century Belgian artist.
Sophie Podolski: Wisdom Should be Sung, installation view. Courtesy Goldsmiths Centre for…
The profound lightness of being: a moving, amusing first
memoir by Geoff Dyer.
Homework: A Memoir, by Geoff Dyer,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 276 pages, $29
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Drugs, desperation, degradation, David Bowie: Uli Edel's 1981 cult film portrays the downward spiral of a young girl who falls in with teenage street addicts in West Berlin.
Natja Brunckhor…
An artist in pursuit of unpredictable outcomes.
Pierre Huyghe: In Imaginal, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Alex Yudzon. Pictured: Annlee " UUmwelt…
In the Scottish musician's incantatory new album, a mesmerizing blend of folk traditions and experimental sounds.
Sunwise, by Brìghde Chaimbeul, Tak:Til/Glitterbeat
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An exhibition on Black fashion over the course of the last three centuries presents costuming as self-creation.
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, installation view. Courtesy Metropolitan Mu…
A matchmaker girl living in a matrimonial world:
Celine Song's forgettable new rom-com.
Dakota Johnson as Lucy and Pedro Pascal as Harry in Materialists. Courtesy A24. Photo: Atsushi Nishi…
With plants, books, multimedia and multimodal works, a nod toward Black survival, liberation, and love.
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, installation view. Courtesy Solomon R. Gugg…
Never the same experience twice for the ninety-three-year-old
French composer.
Alien Roots: EÌliane Radigue, edited by Charles Curtis and Lawrence Kumpf, Blank Forms, $25
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In Hala Alyan's memoir, themes of exile, loss, and cultural heritage emerge alongside preparations for the arrival of a baby via surrogacy.
I'll Tell You When I'm Home, by Hala Alyan,
Avid…
4Columns is taking a weeklong hiatus, but we'll be back with new issues starting next Friday, April 4!
4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky take Spring Training very ser…
Sex, lie detectors, and national security: in Steven Soderbergh's latest, the intrigue of espionage is matched by the mysteries of marriage.
Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse in Black …
Amid the twisted humor of Lynne Tillman's short stories, an incomparable chronicling of human relations.
Thrilled to Death, by Lynne Tillman,
Soft Skull, 304 pages, $27
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An exhibition at ICP tells the people's history of US labor
from 1940 to 2011.
American Job: 1940"2011, installation view. Courtesy International Center of Photography.
American Job: 1940…
