Thursday, November 6, 2025
In her manifesto-like text, Şeyda Kurt advocates for the use of “strategic hate” in the fight against oppression.
Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion, by Şeyda Kurt, translated by Ja…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 30, 2025
In Romanian director Radu Jude’s dizzyingly turgid film, there is something severely at stake.
Gabriel Spahiu as Vlad the Impaler in Dracula. Courtesy Cinetic Media.
Dracula, written and…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 25, 2025
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, tran…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, February 13, 2025
In Tove Jansson’s newly reissued novel set in a Florida retirement home, old age is not wasted on the elderly.
Sun City, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, New York Review Books,…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 5, 2024
Remember, remember, the eighteenth of November: in Solvej Balle’s strange and thrilling septology, an antiquarian bookseller contends with the mystery of having to relive the same day repe…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 31, 2024
An exceptional documentary chronicles the last five years of destruction, violence, and friendship in a community of Palestinian
villages in the West Bank.
Basel Adra in No Other Land. Cou…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 17, 2024
The artist’s new exhibition teases the boundaries between captivity and
freedom, terror and desire.
Andrea Blum: BIOTA, installation view. Courtesy Hunter College Art Galleries.
Andrea …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 13, 2024
In Agnieszka Holland’s tragic film about the refugee crisis at the Belarus–Poland crossing, a provocation to bear witness and reflect on complicity.
Talia Ajjan as Ghalia and Jalal Alta…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, April 18, 2024
There once was a young man who dreamed of becoming
a master butcher . . .
Tenderloin, by Joy Sorman, translated by Lara Vergnaud,
Restless Books, 165 pages, $18
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Of mushrooms and mayhem: In Jennifer Croft’s novel, eight translators who work in eight different languages gather in their author’s rural home . . . what could possibly go wrong…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, February 15, 2024
Soft numbness gives way to surprising politics in an
exhibition at Pace Gallery.
Mika Tajima: Energetics, installation view. Courtesy Pace Gallery.
Mika Tajima: Energetics, Pace Gallery, …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 12, 2023
Dreadful rooms, dreadful colors, dreadful love: in Rosemary Tonks’s 1972 novel, a woman on the verge is desperate for a way out.
The Halt during the Chase, by Rosemary Tonks,
New Directi…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 29, 2023
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, installat…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM 
