36 stories by "4 Columns"
4Columns is spring-flinging this week, but we'll be back with a new issue on Friday, April 5!
4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky are taking a week off for some fun in …
4Columns is on holiday break and will be back with a new issue on January 12, 2024! Till then, we look back at our most-read essays of the past year.
Father Time (4Columns assistant senior …
We'll be back with a new issue December 1.
Till then, forget Thanksgiving and enjoy this reading roundup for
Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Month instead!
This long weekend occasions an exc…
A sneak peek at our upcoming season of soul-replenishing criticism.
Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2017 (fear eats the soul) (white flag), 2017. Courtesy Creative Time. Photo: Guillaume Zicca…
Gone ramblin': our final summer missive maps a route through works inspired by an ethos of my way and the highway.
Justine Kurland, The Sirens, 1999. C-print, 11 × 14 inches. © Justi…
Short and sweet: five very brief books to meet your demands for both quality and quantity.
Just two weeks remain of summer, and as we find ourselves in the season's languorous dregs, it may…
Twins for the win: three works starring doppelgängers ranging from the dangerous to the delightful.
Lupita Nyong'o as Red (left) and Adelaide Wilson (right) in Us. Photo: Industrial Light …
To celebrate Women in Translation Month, a roundup of perverse prose by eight female authors from Europe, Asia, and South America.
"Traduttore, traditore," exclaimed the Italians"translator…
Sealed with a kiss: for your reading pleasure, we present six public displays of affection, from our archives.
Laura Paredes as Laura in Trenque Lauquen. Courtesy Cinema Guild.
The Merriam…
If you don't have anything nice to say, we say go ahead and say it anyway.
Margot Robbie as Nellie LaRoy in Babylon. Courtesy Paramount Pictures. Photo: Scott Garfield.
It's never seemed q…
We'll return with a new issue on September 8! In our first summer missive, three filmmakers who left us wondering after their one-hit wonders.
Richard Romain as Peter Metoyer and Tommye Myr…
