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Of blooms and biases: a show on early modern plant-medicine books dodges issues of capitalism and colonization.
Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals, installation view. Cour…
Bradley Cooper conducts a moving new Leonard Bernstein biopic.
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro. Courtesy Netflix. Photo: Jason McDonald.
Maestro, directed by Bradley Cooper,…
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, but no great men among the modernist painter's favorite things.
Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris, installation view. Courtesy Barnes Foundation.…
A new solo album showcases the irresistible pleasures of the country artist's vocal powers.
Higher, by Chris Stapleton, Mercury Nashville
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Who bore it better? A new show at the Met presents the dueling agendas of the two modernist painters.
Manet/Degas, installation view. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Anna-Marie …
Cosmic consequences come for all in Mathias Énard's diaristic pastiche.
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild, by Mathias Énard, translated by Frank Wynne, New Directions, 4…
Moleskine Notes on a Scandal: in the latest film by Todd Haynes, one woman's past is another woman's future.
Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry and Julianne Moore as Gracie Atherton-Yoo in …
The brunch must go on: the final musical by Stephen Sondheim sends up a group of trapped plutocrats à la Buñuel.
Cast of Here We Are. Photo: Emilio Madrid.
Here We Are, by Stephen So…
Pad thai for the people: forty years of shaking up the space of art.
Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE, installation view. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kyle Knodell. Pictured: untitled 1990 …
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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Paul B. Preciado mixes Woolf's gender-bending novel with the personal stories of a trans and nonbinary cast to moving and inventive effect.
Ruben Rizza (right) as Orlando in Orlando, My Pol…
In Derrida's lectures, a generously ambiguous approach to thinking about paradox, power, and borders during a time of global emergency.
Hospitality, Volume I, by Jacques Derrida, translated…
The artist's show broaches a surfeit of ideas about survival and surveillance, visibility and vulnerability.
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New, installation view. Cou…
In Jesmyn Ward's latest, an enslaved teenager draws upon the strength of family bonds and elemental spirits to find her own path to resilience.
Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, 305…
If Graceland's walls could talk: Sofia Coppola's new biopic
reveals little of the King's queen.
Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla in Priscilla. Courtesy A24. Photo: Sabrina Lantos.
Priscilla, wr…
The singer celebrates heartbreak with a vengeance in her third studio album, I Killed Your Dog.
I Killed Your Dog, by L'Rain, Mexican Summer
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Colored-pencil works by the Inuk artist present an imaginative worldview combining cultural traditions and a dreamlike reality.
Shuvinai Ashoona: Looking Out, Looking In, installation view.…
Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 debut novel tells the defiant stories of the scheming and dreaming street kids of postwar Rome.
Boys Alive, by Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated by Tim Parks, New Y…
Scorsese's film about the murders of Osage Native Americans in the 1920s defies conventional storytelling expectations in favor of
moviegoing as witness-bearing.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernes…
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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The Fast Seduction: an exhibition by the Turner Prize"winning artist is poison eye candy for the people.
Helen Marten: Evidence of Theatre, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Greene…
In the latest by Marie NDiaye, a tale of crimes real and possibly unreal is heightened by audaciously perceptive prose.
Vengeance Is Mine, by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump,
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To know or not to know: in French director Justine Triet's new film, there may be no solutions to the mysteries of marriage and death.
Samuel Theis as Samuel Maleski, Sandra Hüller as Sand…
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 Direction…
For Ninón Sevilla, star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, dazzling dance moves also laid bare the soul.
Ninón Sevilla as Violeta in Victims of Sin. Courtesy Film Forum.
Victims of…
