Thursday, March 19, 2026
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…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, February 5, 2026
A new reissue of Greg Tate’s 1992 essay collection hits hard with the truth, again and again.
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America, by Greg Tate, AUWA Books, 336 pages…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 15, 2026
A twentieth-anniversary reissue of The Greatest renews faith in the artist’s soul-baring songs.
The Greatest and Redux, by Cat Power,
Domino Recording Company
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SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 11, 2025
Idris Robinson’s book presents a radical perspective on the role of martyrdom in the next American revolution.
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer, by Idris Robinson, Semi…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 4, 2025
In thirty-two pieces by Walter Benjamin, a recollection of moments at the confluence of individual memory and collective history.
Berlin Childhood Around 1900, by Walter Benjamin, translate…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 16, 2025
In Julio Cortázar’s surrealism, a displacement of the real.
A Certain Lucas, by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa,
New Directions, 121 pages, $15.95
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 18, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 12, 2025
Never the same experience twice for the ninety-three-year-old
French composer.
Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue, edited by Charles Curtis and Lawrence Kumpf, Blank Forms, $25
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 13, 2025
Sounds to run by: in his fifth book, Ben Ratliff triangulates the rhythms of music, the mind, and the moving body.
Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening, by Ben Ratliff, Grayw…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, February 6, 2025
The mistitling of Pankaj Mishra’s new book.
The World After Gaza: A History, by Pankaj Mishra,
Penguin Press, 292 pages, $28
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Israel is death. To say anything el…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 9, 2025
Music for nothing and your chill playlists for free: a new book by Liz Pelly on the horror story of Spotify.
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, by Liz …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 12, 2024
The late Lebanese author Elias Khoury’s trilogy about a Palestinian refugee during and after the Nakba in 1948 explores the entangled relationship between trauma and storytelling.
Childre…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 31, 2024
Scraps of sound, stoned marching around: the experimental duo’s debut is an inviting blend of chaos and intimacy.
High Tide, by Able Noise, World of Echo
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Able No…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 3, 2024
Art by and for the people vs. architecture in the service of empire.
Monumental Graffiti: Tracing Public Art and Resistance in the City, by Rafael Schacter, MIT Press, 386 pages, $39.95
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 19, 2024
An eclectic and rewarding mix of delightful, unpredictable writing from n+1’s second decade.
The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade,
edited by Mark Krotov, Nikil S…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 20, 2024
Riotous shows, near-fatal fights, and anti-racism and protest politics: a new book chronicles the influential era of the Specials and 2 Tones Records.
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tones Record…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 16, 2024
In remembrance of the sound and voice of the indelible musician
and recording engineer.
Steve Albini, backstage, New York City, 1985. Photo: Gail Butensky.
1962–2024
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 2, 2024
A new book captures the vibes of visionary composer
and cellist Arthur Russell.
Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life, by Richard King,
Anthology Editions, 296 pages, $50
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Nothing will prepare you for this dark, dizzying novel
by the late Heather Lewis.
Notice, by Heather Lewis, Semiotext(e), 243 pages, $17.95
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Before Heather Lewis h…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, February 8, 2024
Walls Have Ears, the band’s trailblazing 1985 album, gets
its first official release.
Walls Have Ears, by Sonic Youth, Goofin’ Records
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Some memories are just …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 18, 2024
On violence, liberation, and the collective: a new biography of
Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz.
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, by Adam Shatz, Farrar, Straus and…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 30, 2023
The musician’s powerful new album defies categorization with its
subdued quietude.
New Blue Sun, by André 3000, Epic Records
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André 3000’s new album, New Blu…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 2, 2023
A complete compendium of short fiction showcases the Welsh writer’s giddy, mystical way with words.
Collected Stories, by Dylan Thomas, New Directions, 362 pages, $24.95
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 19, 2023
The book of the unnamed dead: Teju Cole’s new novel gives presence to those wronged and forgotten by the brutalities of history.
Tremor, by Teju Cole, Random House, 239 pages, $28
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 21, 2023
Language rushes to keep up with the chaos of science in Benjamín Labatut’s new hybrid novel.
The MANIAC, by Benjamín Labatut, Penguin Press, 354 pages, $28
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 8, 2023
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 Ano…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMMonday, June 30, 2014
In January, 1975, the musician Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt released a set of flash cards they called “Oblique Strategies.” Friends since meeting at art school, in the…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMIn January, 1975, the musician Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt released a set of flash cards they called “Oblique Strategies.” Friends since meeting at art school, in the…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMMonday, April 8, 2013
In 1999, the siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer formed the production and performing duo the Knife, in Stockholm. In 2002, they released a track called “Heartbeats,̶…
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