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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Quality Time with the Family by 4 Columns

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 …

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Thursday, August 29, 2024

The Fall 2024 Preview by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Our Summer Art Picks by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

Our Albums of the Summer by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, August 8, 2024

On Eating Animals by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Double Exposures by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, July 25, 2024

Thriller! 10 gripping reviews for steamy summer nights by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, July 18, 2024

Regarding Palestine by 4 Columns

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. …

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Thursday, July 11, 2024

The Direct Line by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, March 28, 2024

We’re off on a Spring Fling by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, December 28, 2023

Our Top 10 Most-Read Reviews of 2023 by 4 Columns

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 …

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Thursday, November 23, 2023

Indigenous Peoples’ Heritage Month Read-a-thon by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, August 31, 2023

The Fall 2023 Preview by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, August 24, 2023

Summer Swan Song: The Road-Trip Reading List by 4 Columns

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 …

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Thursday, August 17, 2023

The Lazy August Reading List by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Binary Codes by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, August 3, 2023

Girls Gone Wily (in Translation) by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, July 27, 2023

Love Letters by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, July 20, 2023

The Bad Review Reading List by 4 Columns

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…

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Sole Train by 4 Columns

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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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime