477 stories from 4columns
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: F…
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…
A collection of Irish writer Mary Lavin's most skillful, subtle, and furious short stories, selected and introduced by Colm TóibÃn.
An Arrow in Flight: Selected Stories, by Mary Lavin…
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, …
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 Rosenbe…
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 Chatterje…
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 SculptureCenter.…
Paris Barclay's new documentary presents a moving portrait of a lonely, beloved, enigmatic musician.
Billy Preston in Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It. © Abramorama.
Billy P…
The musician's latest album, The Patterns Lost to Air, is an introspective reflection on sickness and convalescence.
The Patterns Lost to Air, by Marielle V Jakobsons,
Thrill Jockey Record…
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 Vogel,…
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." Courtesy Wa…
In the 1970 novel by Halldór Laxness, an essayistic tale of ordinary people and a small town church from the Viking Age to the twentieth century.
A Parish Chronicle, by Halldór Laxnes…
An exhibition of sci-fi video installations showcases the artist's technophilic explorations of labor and media.
Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex, installation view. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Pho…
Bloodlust and obsession, carnage and castration: romance and heartbreak take on new meanings in the returning Anthology Film Archives series.
Berta Socuéllamos as Ãngela and Jose Antoni…
Many lives aquatic: a fiercely imaginative book by Mandy-Suzanne Wong seeks to evoke and manifest the unknowability of mollusk consciousness.
Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, by Mandy-Suzanne W…
In Richard Brooks's 1977 film starring Diane Keaton, a lurid portrait of clashing value systems in a moment of societal transformation.
Diane Keaton as Theresa Dunn in Looking for Mr. Goodb…
The latest novel by Helle Helle captures with casual intensity and uncanny grace the relationship between a terminally ill mother
and her teenage daughter.
they, by Helle Helle, translated…
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, …
The Barnes Foundation presents an exhibition of fifty-five transportive paintings by the visionary artist who explored borders
and what lay beyond them.
Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets…
A stage adaptation by Elevator Repair Service brings a madcap energy to James Joyce's notoriously difficult novel.
Cast of Ulysses. Courtesy the Public Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus.
Ulys…
In his first comprehensive US retrospective, a demonstration of the Cuban artist's practice as an act of decolonization.
Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream, installation view. Courtes…
Round and round it goes: the artist's installation takes a pilgrimage to the existential state of not-knowing.
Candice Lin: g/hosti, installation view. Courtesy Whitechapel Gallery. Photo: …
Harry Lighton's new film, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård as an odd couple, plays like a sub/dom rom-com.
Harry Melling as Colin and Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd as Ray in Pilli…
No work, no school, no shopping.
4Columns will not publish today in solidarity with the National Shutdown. Our regularly scheduled issue will come out tomorrow, Saturday, January 31.
In George Saunders's follow-up to Lincoln in the Bardo, death comes for us all"with the possibility of grace.
Vigil, by George Saunders,
Random House, 174 pages, $28
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