Thursday, August 14, 2025
Songs to sweat by: a roundup of four new music recommendations.
What is the perfect summer album? Based on this week’s picks by four 4Columns critics, beauty truly is in the ear of the be…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 7, 2025
A quartet of art recommendations, spanning both sides of the Atlantic.
NO-PHOTO 2025, installation view. Both posters captioned “Photo: Hatem Khaled, Khan Younis, 19 May 2025.” Courtesy…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 31, 2025
Three movies in which moviemaking itself plays a starring role.
Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in Babylon. Courtesy Paramount Pictures. Photo: Scott Garfield.
The youngest art form, cine…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 24, 2025
For our third summer missive, reviews that center on place and
feelings of home.
Stephen Shore, U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973, 1973. Chromogenic color print, pri…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 17, 2025
United we stan this trio of films focusing on activists and revolutionaries.
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart in BPM. Courtesy Céline Nieszawer.
During the first iteration of the Trump kakistocrac…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 10, 2025
Ciarán Finlayson and Johanna Fateman at the MANIFESTO! event on March 19, 2025.
On March 19, 2025, a rowdy audience packed into KGB Bar in downtown Manhattan, elbow-to-elbow, knee-to-knee,…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 27, 2025
4Columns is taking a weeklong hiatus, but we’ll be back with new issues starting next Friday, April 4!
4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky take Spring Training very s…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, January 2, 2025
The moment you’ve been waiting for is here. Drumroll, please . . .
We’ve got music, we’ve got films, we’ve got novels, art exhibitions, poetry. Join us in a countdown of our top f…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 26, 2024
New issues will resume on January 10, 2025!
4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky wishing you a happy new year from their winter friendcation.
We’re taking a short hol…
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New issues resume on December 6!
Until then, we’ve put together a list of recommended book and film reviews, specially curated for the holiday weekend.
Assistant senior editor Bolek and …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, August 29, 2024
Here’s a sneak peek at our lineup for the upcoming season.
4Columns mascot Sparky (im)patiently awaits a new season of arts criticism.
Did you miss us? After a long, hot summer, 4Col…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 22, 2024
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? This art’s more lovely . . .
Nicole Eisenman: What Happened, installation view. Photo: Shelby Ragsdale. © MCA Chicago. Pictured, top…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 15, 2024
Hot heat, hotter tunes: four capsule reviews of recent releases.
For this week’s summer missive, we’re trying something new: the 4Columns editors have invited critics to pick th…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 8, 2024
We’re back with a new issue September 6! Until then, enjoy this archival roundup of reviews that may make you think twice about what’s for dinner . . .
Gunda. Courte…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 1, 2024
Three multitalented multitaskers, both camera ready and camera steady.
Edmond O’Brien as Harry and Ida Lupino as Phyllis in The Bigamist. Image courtesy The Filmakers Inc. / Photofest…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 25, 2024
In the heat of the sweatiest season, a slew of mystery and suspense books to make your blood run cold.
From Monica, by Daniel Clowes. Courtesy Fantagraphics.
It’s a known fact that w…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 18, 2024
Heartache and horror, joy and humor, in a range of vivid, imagination-filled portrayals of Palestinian lives.
Razan AlSalah, Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, And So Was the Nakba, 2017. …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 11, 2024
We’ll return with a new issue on September 6! In our first summer missive, we’re shining a spotlight on a trio of writers who made the leap from the blank page to the silver scre…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 28, 2024
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 i…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, December 28, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 23, 2023
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…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, August 31, 2023
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…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 24, 2023
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. © Justine …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 17, 2023
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 m…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 10, 2023
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 Ligh…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, August 3, 2023
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—tran…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 27, 2023
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…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 20, 2023
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 seem…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, July 13, 2023
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 M…
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