Thursday, November 13, 2025

Sirāt by Leo Goldsmith

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, a…

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Languages of Home by Hanif Abdurraqib

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 1971–2…

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Mohinder Kaur Bhamra by Geeta Dayal

Naya Beat reissues Punjabi Disco, one of the first British South Asian electronic dance albums. Punjabi Disco, by Mohinder Kaur Bhamra, Naya Beat •   •   • It’s a tale tha…

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Ruth Asawa by Aruna D’souza

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 M…

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Man Ray by Albert Mobilio

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…

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Peter Hujar’s Day by Melissa Anderson

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 Huj…

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Hate by Ania Szremski

In her manifesto-like text, Şeyda Kurt advocates for the use of “strategic hate” in the fight against oppression. Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion, by Şeyda Kurt, translated by Ja…

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Arthur Schopenhauer by Paul Chan

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…

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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Could It Be Love by Jeremy Lybarger

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 …

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Dracula by Ania Szremski

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…

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Cancelled Confessions by Brian Dillon

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, translat…

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David Wojnarowicz by David O’neill

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, installati…

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

D’Angelo by Harmony Holiday

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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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere by Andrew Chan

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 N…

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Amazonia Açu by Dorota Biczel

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. Courtesy…

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The Lord by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

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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Thursday, October 16, 2025

A Certain Lucas by Sasha Frere-Jones

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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The Mastermind by Melissa Anderson

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 …

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The Four Spent the Day Together by Elvia Wilk

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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Tehching Hsieh by Aruna D’souza

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 Jaco…

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Thursday, October 9, 2025

The Films of Sophie Fillières by Melissa Anderson

In the late writer-director’s works, portraits of headstrong women under the influence of adventurous spirits. Emmanuelle Devos as Pomme in If You Don’t, I Will. Courtesy L’Alliance N…

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Waiting for Godot by Jennifer Krasinski

Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s play is in danger of punking a classic most heinously. Alex Winter as Vladimir and Keanu Reeves as Estragon in Waiting for Godot. Courte…

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Sick Architecture by Noah Chasin

A collection of three dozen essays examines the intertwined histories of built environments and the scourges they harbor, house, and cause. Sick Architecture, edited by Beatriz Colomina wit…

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Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Jessi Jezewska Stevens

A setup familiar to contemporary fiction and romance ends up defying expectations in the latest novel by Claire-Louise Bennett. Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, by Claire-Louise Bennett, Riverhead Books…

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Shadow Ticket by Brian Dillon

Absurdities, conspiracies, homegrown fascists: in Thomas Pynchon’s novel set in 1932, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press,…

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Mariah Carey by Andrew Chan

The singer’s sixteenth studio album, Here for It All. Here for It All, by Mariah Carey, Gamma •   •   • Pop superstars, whose talents are so often eroded by the rigors of …

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One Battle After Another by Nick Pinkerton

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s action-comedy-drama about members of a leftist militant group, tidy ideologies make for a story more soothing than disquieting. Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguso…

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Ben Shahn by Gregg Bordowitz

A new retrospective at the Jewish Museum showcases the artist’s commitment to the fight against fascism and oppression. Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity, installation view. Courtesy the Jewish…

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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Vaim by Ania Szremski

Wateryworld: language and its faults make for a story of amphibolous feelings in the inaugural installment of Jon Fosse’s new trilogy set in a small fishing town. Vaim, by Jon Fosse, tran…

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Alix Cléo Roubaud by Margaret Sundell

The first solo show outside France of the Canadian artist, who died in her early thirties in 1983, presents tantalizing works haunted by an atmosphere of absence and loss. Alix Cléo Roubau…

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The Smashing Machine by Beatrice Loayza

A Rock and a soft place: in Benny Safdie’s biopic, Dwayne Johnson plays UFC champ Mark Kerr as a brawler with a big heart. Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. Courtesy A2…

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