Thursday, April 16, 2026

Noah Davis by Aruna D’souza

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 …

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Superstars by Brian Dillon

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 H…

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Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances by Sukhdev Sandhu

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 F…

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Blue Heron by Michelle Orange

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…

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Thursday, April 9, 2026

The Palm House by Zack Hatfield

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 Yor…

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No New York by Geeta Dayal

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 Scen…

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Tina Aumont by Beatrice Loayza

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 étoi…

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Whitney Biennial 2026 by Ania Szremski

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.…

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Thursday, April 2, 2026

The Wonderful World That Almost Was by Moyra Davey

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 Andre…

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Transcription by Sasha Frere-Jones

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 …

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Robyn by Nathan Lee

With her latest album, Sexistential, the artist enters her neurochemistry era. Sexistential, by Robyn, Young •   •   • That sound you heard last November when Robyn release…

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The Christophers by Melissa Anderson

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. Pho…

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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Gone bird-watchin’ . . . by 4 Columns

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 du…

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Thursday, March 19, 2026

Offenses by Sasha Frere-Jones

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…

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Miroirs No. 3 by Melissa Anderson

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 …

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Ralph Lemon by Pamela Sneed

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.…

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The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis by Mark Dery

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 …

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Thursday, March 12, 2026

Elucid & Sebb Bash by Harmony Holiday

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 …

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Love Is Blind by Paul Chan

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…

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The Bride! by Johanna Fateman

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: Ni…

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Now I Surrender by Will Noah

Álvaro Enrigue’s latest novel intricately weaves Mexican-western pastiche with autofiction and historical research. Now I Surrender, by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer, Riv…

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Thursday, March 5, 2026

An Arrow in Flight by Brian Dillon

A collection of Irish writer Mary Lavin’s most skillful, subtle, and furious short stories, selected and introduced by Colm Tóibín. An Arrow in Flight: Selected Stories, by Mary Lavin, …

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The Little Sister and Love Me Tender by Melissa Anderson

Two tales of coming out: new films by Hafsia Herzi and Anna Cazenave Cambet are a study in contrasting experiences of self-reckoning and sapphic sexuality. Nadia Melliti as Fatima in The Li…

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The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds by Aruna D’souza

The first US exhibition of Édouard Glissant’s personal art collection is fertile landscape for thinking through the poetics of relation. The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds: Fo…

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Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories by Mark Sinker

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 Stor…

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Thursday, February 26, 2026

Pat Oleszko by Jennifer Krasinski

The punniest of them all: SculptureCenter’s career survey spans nearly six decades of the artist’s exuberant work. Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure, installation view. Courtesy SculptureCen…

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Days and Nights in the Forest by Melissa Anderson

In Satyajit Ray’s 1970 film, four loutish young urbanites from Kolkata encounter class differences and potential romance on holiday in the country. Samit Bhanja as Hari, Subhendu Chatter…

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Night Night Fawn by Megan Milks

Jordy Rosenberg’s second novel, written from the point of view of a queerphobic mother, is equal parts reckoning and memorial, plus pained, bitter laugh. Night Night Fawn, by Jordy Rosen…

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Castrato Phantoms by Eric Banks

Fellini, Fascism, and the last castrato: Martha Feldman’s study on Italian cultural politics weaves together opera and technology, the sacred and the profane. Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi…

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Thursday, February 19, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” by Jarrett Earnest

Agent provocateur: Emerald Fennell as a “bad reader” of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel. Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights.” Cou…

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Queen by Sukhdev Sandhu

Queen of rags, queen of nothing: Birgitta Trotzig’s magnificent, terrifying 1964 novella depicts poverty as an existential condition. Queen, by Birgitta Trotzig, translated by Saskia Voge…

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off