Thursday, February 26, 2026

Pat Oleszko by Jennifer Krasinski

The punniest of them all: SculptureCenter’s career survey spans nearly six decades of the artist’s exuberant work. Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure, installation view. Courtesy SculptureCen…

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Days and Nights in the Forest by Melissa Anderson

In Satyajit Ray’s 1970 film, four loutish young urbanites from Kolkata encounter class differences and potential romance on holiday in the country. Samit Bhanja as Hari, Subhendu Chatter…

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Night Night Fawn by Megan Milks

Jordy Rosenberg’s second novel, written from the point of view of a queerphobic mother, is equal parts reckoning and memorial, plus pained, bitter laugh. Night Night Fawn, by Jordy Rosen…

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Castrato Phantoms by Eric Banks

Fellini, Fascism, and the last castrato: Martha Feldman’s study on Italian cultural politics weaves together opera and technology, the sacred and the profane. Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi…

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Thursday, February 19, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” by Jarrett Earnest

Agent provocateur: Emerald Fennell as a “bad reader” of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel. Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights.” Cou…

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Queen by Sukhdev Sandhu

Queen of rags, queen of nothing: Birgitta Trotzig’s magnificent, terrifying 1964 novella depicts poverty as an existential condition. Queen, by Birgitta Trotzig, translated by Saskia Voge…

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Marielle V Jakobsons by Geeta Dayal

The musician’s latest album, The Patterns Lost to Air, is an introspective reflection on sickness and convalescence. The Patterns Lost to Air, by Marielle V Jakobsons, Thrill Jockey Reco…

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Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It by Andrew Chan

Paris Barclay’s new documentary presents a moving portrait of a lonely, beloved, enigmatic musician. Billy Preston in Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It. © Abramorama. Billy…

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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl by Ania Szremski

Many lives aquatic: a fiercely imaginative book by Mandy-Suzanne Wong seeks to evoke and manifest the unknowability of mollusk consciousness. Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, by Mandy-Suzanne W…

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Valentine’s Day Massacre by Melissa Anderson

Bloodlust and obsession, carnage and castration: romance and heartbreak take on new meanings in the returning Anthology Film Archives series. Berta Socuéllamos as Ángela and Jose Antonio …

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Ayoung Kim by Ed Halter

An exhibition of sci-fi video installations showcases the artist’s technophilic explorations of labor and media. Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex, installation view. Courtesy MoMA PS1. P…

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A Parish Chronicle

In the 1970 novel by Halldór Laxness, an essayistic tale of ordinary people and a small town church from the Viking Age to the twentieth century. A Parish Chronicle, by Halldór Laxness, t…

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Thursday, February 5, 2026

Henri Rousseau by Leslie Camhi

The Barnes Foundation presents an exhibition of fifty-five transportive paintings by the visionary artist who explored borders and what lay beyond them. Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secre…

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Flyboy in the Buttermilk by Sasha Frere-Jones

A new reissue of Greg Tate’s 1992 essay collection hits hard with the truth, again and again. Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America, by Greg Tate, AUWA Books, 336 pages…

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they by Brian Dillon

The latest novel by Helle Helle captures with casual intensity and uncanny grace the relationship between a terminally ill mother and her teenage daughter. they, by Helle Helle, translated…

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Erika Balsom

In Richard Brooks’s 1977 film starring Diane Keaton, a lurid portrait of clashing value systems in a moment of societal transformation. Diane Keaton as Theresa Dunn in Looking for Mr. Goo…

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Friday, January 30, 2026

Pillion by Melissa Anderson

Harry Lighton’s new film, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård as an odd couple, plays like a sub/dom rom-com. Harry Melling as Colin and Alexander Skarsgård as Ray in Pillion…

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Candice Lin by Emily Labarge

Round and round it goes: the artist’s installation takes a pilgrimage to the existential state of not-knowing. Candice Lin: g/hosti, installation view. Courtesy Whitechapel Gallery. Photo…

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Wifredo Lam by Aruna D’souza

In his first comprehensive US retrospective, a demonstration of the Cuban artist’s practice as an act of decolonization. Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, installation view. Cou…

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Ulysses by Rhoda Feng

A stage adaptation by Elevator Repair Service brings a madcap energy to James Joyce’s notoriously difficult novel. Cast of Ulysses. Courtesy the Public Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus. Ulys…

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Thursday, January 29, 2026

ICE OUT NOW by 4 Columns

No work, no school, no shopping. 4Columns will not publish today in solidarity with the National Shutdown. Our regularly scheduled issue will come out tomorrow, Saturday, January 31.

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Thursday, January 22, 2026

Sonny Simmons by Harmony Holiday

In the jazz musician’s autobiography, an elaborate, dizzying accumulation of memories and moves, tour stories and sonic endurance. Better Do it Now Before You Die Later, by Sonny Simmons …

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Autumn Leaves by Melissa Anderson

Striking discordances bring an animated intensity to Robert Aldrich’s 1956 tearjerker starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson. Joan Crawford as Millicent “Milly” Wetherby and Cliff…

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Caravaggio by Ania Szremski

Big stories emerge from a small showcase at the Morgan centered on the Italian painter’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit. Caravaggio’s Boy with a Basket of Fruit in Focus, installation view.…

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Vigil by David L. Ulin

In George Saunders’s follow-up to Lincoln in the Bardo, death comes for us all—with the possibility of grace. Vigil, by George Saunders, Random House, 174 pages, $28 •   •  �…

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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Cat Power by Sasha Frere-Jones

A twentieth-anniversary reissue of The Greatest renews faith in the artist’s soul-baring songs. The Greatest and Redux, by Cat Power, Domino Recording Company •   •   • G…

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Bug by David Cote

Tracy Letts’s ’90s roadside psychodrama makes its Broadway debut. Carrie Coon as Agnes White in Bug. © Matthew Murphy. Bug, written by Tracy Letts, directed by David Cromer, Samuel J.…

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A Private Life by Beatrice Loayza

Rebecca Zlotowski’s film starring Jodie Foster takes the form of a wry murder mystery with a side of mystical melodrama. Jodie Foster as Lilian Steiner in A Private Life. Courtesy Sony Pi…

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MONUMENTS by Alex Kitnick

Confederate statuary takes on new meanings in a history-making show at MOCA and the Brick in LA. MONUMENTS, installation view. Courtesy the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick. Photo: …

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Thursday, January 8, 2026

The School of Night by Reinaldo Laddaga

In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest, the tragicomic tale of an artist’s unwitting Faustian bargain. The School of Night, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Martin Aitken, Penguin Press, …

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plastic by Brian Dillon

In Matthew Rice’s book-length poem, a portrait of the poet on a factory night shift. plastic: A Poem, by Matthew Rice, Soft Skull, 90 pages, $15.95 •   •   • Before it wa…

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