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The artist's show broaches a surfeit of ideas about survival and surveillance, visibility and vulnerability.
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Nothing New, installation view. Cou…
In Jesmyn Ward's latest, an enslaved teenager draws upon the strength of family bonds and elemental spirits to find her own path to resilience.
Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, 305…
If Graceland's walls could talk: Sofia Coppola's new biopic
reveals little of the King's queen.
Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla in Priscilla. Courtesy A24. Photo: Sabrina Lantos.
Priscilla, wr…
The singer celebrates heartbreak with a vengeance in her third studio album, I Killed Your Dog.
I Killed Your Dog, by L'Rain, Mexican Summer
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Colored-pencil works by the Inuk artist present an imaginative worldview combining cultural traditions and a dreamlike reality.
Shuvinai Ashoona: Looking Out, Looking In, installation view.…
Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 debut novel tells the defiant stories of the scheming and dreaming street kids of postwar Rome.
Boys Alive, by Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated by Tim Parks, New Y…
Scorsese's film about the murders of Osage Native Americans in the 1920s defies conventional storytelling expectations in favor of
moviegoing as witness-bearing.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernes…
The book of the unnamed dead: Teju Cole's new novel gives presence to those wronged and forgotten by the brutalities of history.
Tremor, by Teju Cole, Random House, 239 pages, $28
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The Fast Seduction: an exhibition by the Turner Prize"winning artist is poison eye candy for the people.
Helen Marten: Evidence of Theatre, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Greene…
In the latest by Marie NDiaye, a tale of crimes real and possibly unreal is heightened by audaciously perceptive prose.
Vengeance Is Mine, by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump,
Knop…
To know or not to know: in French director Justine Triet's new film, there may be no solutions to the mysteries of marriage and death.
Samuel Theis as Samuel Maleski, Sandra Hüller as Sand…
Dreadful rooms, dreadful colors, dreadful love: in Rosemary Tonks's 1972 novel, a woman on the verge is desperate for a way out.
The Halt during the Chase, by Rosemary Tonks,
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For Ninón Sevilla, star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, dazzling dance moves also laid bare the soul.
Ninón Sevilla as Violeta in Victims of Sin. Courtesy Film Forum.
Victims of…
A River of Gentrification Runs Through It: Jonathan Lethem's new fiction chronicles neighborhood tales from the '60s to the present.
Brooklyn Crime Novel, by Jonathan Lethem, Ecco, 373 page…
A retrospective of the late artist's paintings showcases an outlook of both turbulence and calm.
Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances, installation view. Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Bosto…
In the follow-up to Justin Torres's 2011 We the Animals, a story of queer kinship and lineage is forged upon absence and erasure.
Blackouts, by Justin Torres, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 305…
Thirteen international artists respond to the ongoing legacy of trauma, violence, and defiance caused by the 1947 division.
Proposals for a Memorial to Partition, installation view. Courtes…
Fiction, nonfiction, essay-parts: Kate Briggs's first novel is an
experiment in radical possibilities.
The Long Form, by Kate Briggs,
Dorothy, a publishing project, 447 pages, $16.95
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On a road to nowhere? A new restoration of Jonathan Demme's 1984 Talking Heads documentary.
Lynn Mabry and David Byrne in Stop Making Sense. Courtesy A24. Photo: Jordan Cronenweth.
Stop Ma…
When cassette tapes ruled the world.
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape, by Marc Masters, University of North Carolina Press, 209 pages, $20
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Death and taxonomy: twenty-one photographs reflect on life and order in the Anthropocene.
Claire Pentecost: Linnaeus After Dark, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Higher Pictures. …
Language rushes to keep up with the chaos of science in BenjamÃn Labatut's new hybrid novel.
The MANIAC, by BenjamÃn Labatut, Penguin Press, 354 pages, $28
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Naked and unafraid: the unsung Corman-protégé's search for sexual freedom within the exploitation genre.
Celeste Yarnall as Diane LeFanu in The Velvet Vampire. Courtesy the American Genre…
Hawthornian horror gets the postmodern treatment in Daniel Clowes's latest graphic novel.
Monica, by Daniel Clowes, Fantagraphics Books, 106 pages, $30
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Resistance, performance, and self-determination are at the forefront of a dazzling display of works by over three dozen
Native artists and collectives.
Indian Theater: Native Performance, …
