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We'll be back with a new issue on December 5! In the meantime, we're offering up an array of culinarily-inclined reviews to whet your appetite.
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The medieval heart (and loins) knows no bounds in a new exhibition
at the Cloisters.
Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, installation view. Courtesy Metropolitan …
Robert Icke's adaptation of Sophocles ventures into the arena of modern-day electoral politics.
Mark Strong as Oedipus and Samuel Brewer as Teiresias in Oedipus. Courtesy DKC/O&M. Photo…
'70s cinema homages, '70s mustaches, '70s dictatorship repression: Kleber Mendonça Filho's latest mixes high-energy excitement with
the ghosts of the past.
Wagner Moura as Marcelo in Th…
Playful antics and gentle subversions in two comic books by Joe Brainard in collaboration with fellow members of the New York School.
The Complete C Comics, by Joe Brainard, foreword by Ron…
The artist's endless appetite for all manner of making and creativity is on display in MoMA's new retrospective.
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective, installation view. Courtesy the Museum of Moder…
Naya Beat reissues Punjabi Disco, one of the first British South Asian electronic dance albums.
Punjabi Disco, by Mohinder Kaur Bhamra, Naya Beat
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A life in language: a thoughtfully curated essay collection reveals a pathway through the mind of John Edgar Wideman.
Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1971"202…
In Oliver Laxe's apocalyptic action spectacle, desperate end times
call for a desert rave.
Stefania Gadda as Steff, Joshua Liam Herderson as Josh, Richard "Bigui" Bellamy as Bigui, and Ser…
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times: a new biography of the famously pessimistic philosopher.
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist, …
In her manifesto-like text, Åžeyda Kurt advocates for the use of "strategic hate" in the fight against oppression.
Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion, by Åžeyda Kurt, translated by Ja…
Ira Sachs's hypnotic portrayal of a daylong conversation between the photographer and his longtime friend Linda Rosenkrantz.
Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw as Peter Hujar…
What dreams (of things) may come: a survey at the Met presents 160 works by the enigmatic artist.
Man Ray: When Objects Dream, installation view. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ph…
An exhibition of the writer, artist, and activist's Rimbaud photo series invites identification even as it repels interpretation.
David Wojnarowicz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York, installation…
A new reissue of Claude Cahun's 1930 "anti-memoir," accompanied by photomontages made with their partner Marcel Moore.
Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals), by Claude Cahun, translated by …
In Romanian director Radu Jude's dizzyingly turgid film, there is something severely at stake.
Gabriel Spahiu as Vlad the Impaler in Dracula. Courtesy Cinetic Media.
Dracula, written and d…
The first monograph of artist Greer Lankton's defiantly disturbing
doll tableaux.
Could It Be Love, by Greer Lankton, edited by Francis Schichtel, Jordan Weitzman, and Nan Goldin, Magic Ho…
Soraya Antonius's 1986 novel, newly reissued, paints a breathtakingly vivid portrait of pre-nakba Palestine.
The Lord, by Soraya Antonius,
New York Review Books, 227 pages, $17.95
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Wood, bronze, clay, fiber, oil paint, film: an expansive survey of work by thirty-four contemporary artists and collectives from the Amazon basin.
Amazonia Açu, installation view. Courte…
Who was the Boss?: the musician's outsize influence in Scott Cooper's new biopic makes for too tidy of a story.
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhe…
Remembering the late singer's suave, swagger, and sweetness.
D'Angelo performs at the Aire Crown Theater in Chicago, April 2000. Courtesy Getty Images. Photo: Paul Natkin / WireImage.
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A series of one-year performances demonstrate the merging of
art time and life time.
Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978"1999, installation view. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobs…
Chris Kraus's new novel chronicles the crimes and injustices
of rural impoverishment.
The Four Spent the Day Together, by Chris Kraus,
Scribner, 304 pages, $29
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Kelly Reichardt's latest film: a bumbling suburban dad, a fumbled art heist, and a portrait of a nation on the decline.
Josh O'Connor as James Blaine Mooney in The Mastermind. Courtesy Cine…
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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