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We'll be back with a new issue on January 9, 2026!
4Columns mascot Old Saint Sparky and assistant senior editor Bolek wishing you a festive winter break.
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A young table-tennis champ careens and crashes through an obstacle course of chaos and catastrophes in Josh Safdie's new film.
Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme. Courtesy …
French theory's influences ripple through the development of American art in a show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought, installation view. Cou…
A material girl in a material world: hyperfeminine stylings commingle with industrial structures and materials in the artist's exhibition.
Mimosa Echard: Facial, installation view. Courtesy…
A genre-defying collaborative album by the percussionist and the MC exhibits a shared politics of destabilization.
HAYWARDxDÄLEK, by Charles Hayward and Will Brooks (aka MC dälek), Rel…
Skin and limbs, eyes and tongues: a mesmerizing ambivalence shades the artist's monstrous creations enmeshing flesh and tech.
Tishan Hsu: emergence, installation view. Courtesy Lisson Galle…
Only dreamers left alive: the visual pleasures and overreaching ambitions of Bi Gan's latest film.
Jackson Yee as the Deliriant in Resurrection. Courtesy Janus Films.
Resurrection, written…
In the newly reopened museum, a balancing act between extravagant architecture and the institution's historical origins.
From Now: A Collection in Context, installation view. Courtesy Studi…
Idris Robinson's book presents a radical perspective on the role of martyrdom in the next American revolution.
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer, by Idris Robinson, Semiot…
In thirty-two pieces by Walter Benjamin, a recollection of moments at the confluence of individual memory and collective history.
Berlin Childhood Around 1900, by Walter Benjamin, translate…
In a retrospective series at Anthology Film Archives, the cult-cinema icon's bewitching essence is on full display.
Mary Woronov as Camilla Stone in Sugar Cookies. Courtesy Anthology Film A…
Dreams, visions, and micro-contexts: a new show at the Drawing Center limns the outer reaches of our known world.
Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena, installation view. Courtesy …
Plathies and Swifties unite: Maggie Nelson's latest explores the overlap between the star poet and the pop star.
The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift, by Maggie Nelson,
Graywolf Pr…
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…
