Thursday, August 21, 2025
Philosophy, case study, biography, fiction: four newly published
page-turners to add to your bookshelf.
As the dog days of summer wind down to an end and we brace for September, four criti…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek is looking forward to some time away from the city.
4Columns is taking a short seasonal hiatus—but we’ll be returning with a fresh new issue on Se…
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The beautiful, anti-bourgeois, language-breaking works of the
twentieth-century Belgian artist.
Sophie Podolski: Wisdom Should be Sung, installation view. Courtesy Goldsmiths Centre for C…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMAlbert Serra continues his provocative explorations of white European power and decadence in a documentary about
bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey.
Andrés Roca Rey (center foreground) in After…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMIn Marlen Haushofer’s 1958 novella, a riveting and disturbing tale of blame, shame, and consequence.
Killing Stella, by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside,
New Directions, 8…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMQuiet chaos, comedic sparks, Bette Midler tunes: Abby Rosebrock’s play illuminates the fragile emotional dynamics of a Tinder dinner date.
Babak Tafti as David in Lowcountry. Photo: Ahron…
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In the Scottish musician’s incantatory new album, a mesmerizing blend of folk traditions and experimental sounds.
Sunwise, by Brìghde Chaimbeul, Tak:Til/Glitterbeat
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMAn artist in pursuit of unpredictable outcomes.
Pierre Huyghe: In Imaginal, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Alex Yudzon. Pictured: Annlee – UUmwe…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMDrugs, desperation, degradation, David Bowie: Uli Edel’s 1981 cult film portrays the downward spiral of a young girl who falls in with teenage street addicts in West Berlin.
Natja Brunckh…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThe profound lightness of being: a moving, amusing first
memoir by Geoff Dyer.
Homework: A Memoir, by Geoff Dyer,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 276 pages, $29
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“It…
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Never the same experience twice for the ninety-three-year-old
French composer.
Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue, edited by Charles Curtis and Lawrence Kumpf, Blank Forms, $25
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMWith plants, books, multimedia and multimodal works, a nod toward Black survival, liberation, and love.
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, installation view. Courtesy Solomon R. Gugg…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA matchmaker girl living in a matrimonial world:
Celine Song’s forgettable new rom-com.
Dakota Johnson as Lucy and Pedro Pascal as Harry in Materialists. Courtesy A24. Photo: Atsushi Nis…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMAn exhibition on Black fashion over the course of the last three centuries presents costuming as self-creation.
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, installation view. Courtesy Metropolitan Mu…
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In Hala Alyan’s memoir, themes of exile, loss, and cultural heritage emerge alongside preparations for the arrival of a baby via surrogacy.
I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, by Hala Alyan,…
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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…
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On the occasion of the Estonian composer’s ninetieth birthday, a new album collects recordings of four of his most famous works.
Silentium, by Arvo Pärt, Mississippi Records
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMAn exhibition at ICP tells the people’s history of US labor
from 1940 to 2011.
American Job: 1940–2011, installation view. Courtesy International Center of Photography.
American Job: …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMAmid the twisted humor of Lynne Tillman’s short stories, an incomparable chronicling of human relations.
Thrilled to Death, by Lynne Tillman,
Soft Skull, 304 pages, $27
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SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMSex, lie detectors, and national security: in Steven Soderbergh’s latest, the intrigue of espionage is matched by the mysteries of marriage.
Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse in Blac…
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Danger comes knocking anew in Rebecca Frecknall’s searing revival of Tennessee Williams’s tragic play, starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran.
Patsy Ferran as Blanche DuBois and Paul Mes…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMSounds to run by: in his fifth book, Ben Ratliff triangulates the rhythms of music, the mind, and the moving body.
Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening, by Ben Ratliff, Grayw…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA retrospective at London’s Hayward Gallery charts half a century of darkly humorous work by the punk-feminist artist.
Linder: Danger Came Smiling, installation view. Courtesy the artist …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMHumor and humiliation, violence and vulnerability: the chaos of thwarted eros knows no bounds in Alain Guiraudie’s latest.
Félix Kysyl as Jérémie and Jean-Baptiste Durand as Vincent in…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 6, 2025
Silvia Park’s cyberpunk-noir novel reenvisions love and relationships in a futuristic unified Korea.
Luminous, by Silvia Park,
Simon & Schuster, 388 pages, $29.99
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