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A climate-crisis anti-memoir by novelist Lydia Millet makes a case for humility before nature.
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, by Lydia Millet,
W. W. Norton, 254 pages, $27.99
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Side effects may vary: in Lucy Prebble's play, love and romance go head-to-head with an experimental antidepressant.
Paapa Essiedu as Tristan and Taylor Russell as Connie in The Effect. Cou…
The Egyptian composer and vocalist reshaping Cairo's
experimental music scene.
Les damnés ne pleurent pas, by Nadah El Shazly, Asadun Alay Records
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In Alice Rohrwacher's hauntingly whimsical film, an archaeologist turned grave robber in 1980s Tuscany finds that some losses are buried
too deeply to be excavated.
Josh O'Connor as Arthur…
Nothing will prepare you for this dark, dizzying novel
by the late Heather Lewis.
Notice, by Heather Lewis, Semiotext(e), 243 pages, $17.95
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An expansive multidisciplinary exhibition by Shezad Dawood, inspired by the late jazz composer Yusef Lateef’s 1988 novella.
Shezad Dawood: Night in the Garden of Love, installation vi…
A new show highlights the celebrated art director’s innovations in photography and design during his mid-century reign at Harper’s Bazaar.
Alexey Brodovitch: Astonish Me, instal…
In her latest album, Eternal Sunshine, the pop artist reveals
a mind far from spotless.
Eternal Sunshine, by Ariana Grande, Republic
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The Diné artist expands on sound and embodiment in the space between point and counterpoint.
Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak, installation view. Courte…
In Diane Seuss’s sixth collection, a cobbling together
of forms and forbears.
Modern Poetry: Poems, by Diane Seuss, Graywolf Press, 112 pages, $26
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Roid-raging against the machine: lez lovers embark on a path of vengeance in Rose Glass’s second film.
Katy O’Brian as Jackie and Kristen Stewart as Lou in Love Lies Bleeding. C…
Of mushrooms and mayhem: In Jennifer Croft’s novel, eight translators who work in eight different languages gather in their author’s rural home . . . what could possibly go wrong…
The artist’s new exhibition explores freedom, confinement, and
flight in the Black imaginary.
Steffani Jemison: Bound, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali. Phot…
Country artist, conceptual artist, Texas artist: a celebratory biography of the rangy life and work of Terry Allen.
Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, by Brendan Greaves, H…
A young Salvadoran immigrant in New York City navigates cryogenics, art-world shenanigans, and challenges both real and surreal in Julio Torres’s debut feature film.
Julio Torres as A…
Taking a disturbing page from Humbert Humbert, the narrator of Lucas Rijneveld’s second novel pens a tortured, hallucinatory love letter to the fourteen-year-old object of his obsessio…
In Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s third book, stories filled with the dreadful promises of pleasure and malaise.
Ghost Pains, by Jessi Jezewska Stevens,
And Other Stories, 188 pages, $19.9…
Our contemporary morass, constructed out of cardboard, tape, and foil.
Thomas Hirschhorn: Fake it, Fake it – till you Fake it., installation view. Courtesy the artist and Gladsto…
In a 1991 essay film about the assassinated Congolese independence leader, Raoul Peck explores the slipperiness of history and the archive.
Patrice Lumumba in Lumumba: Death of a Proph…
Seven decades of rabble-rousing voices from the Village Voice, chronicled in a new book by Tricia Romano.
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radi…
Revelatory songs of abandonment and abandon by the late Ethiopian composer and nun.
Souvenirs, by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Mississippi Records
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Soft numbness gives way to surprising politics in an
exhibition at Pace Gallery.
Mika Tajima: Energetics, installation view. Courtesy Pace Gallery.
Mika Tajima: Energetics, Pace Gallery, …
The artist’s new installation welcomes a submersion into
spatial experience.
Tiril Hasselknippe: Hyperstate, installation view. Courtesy Magenta Plains. Photo: John Muggenborg. ©…
Liberté, égalité, gastronomie: Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel star in Trân Anh Hùng’s latest film.
Juliette Binoche as Eugénie and …
