465 stories from 4columns
How many Wes Anderson films can fit into a Wes Anderson film?
Jake Ryan as Woodrow Steenbeck, Jason Schwartzman as Augie Steenbeck, and Tom Hanks as Stanley Zak in Asteroid City. Courtesy P…
Death rides shotgun, literally, in Lorrie Moore's novel about a middle-aged teacher who hits the road with his deceased ex-girlfriend in tow.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, by Lorrie…
The group's latest album channels the vibrant, yearning sounds and struggles of American history and personal loss.
Weathervanes, by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit,
Southeastern / Thirty Ti…
Run Muyu Run: in Xu Zechen's connected stories, young migrant workers drift, jog, and sprint through the capital.
Beijing Sprawl, by Xu Zechen, translated by Jeremy Tiang and Eric Abrahamse…
From dodging bullets in Chicago to secretly jamming in Vietnam to redefining jazz around the world, Henry Threadgill's story of negotiating a uniquely American chaos.
Easily Slip into Anoth…
A life, in millimeters: an exhibition details the bland, brutal violence of administration"and renders art complicit.
Sung Tieu: Civic Floor, installation view. Courtesy MIT List Visual Art…
Woodcraft, warcraft, witchcraft: Pietro Marcello's latest film blends realism and fantasy to tell a meandering tale of a father, daughter,
and their makeshift family.
Juliette Jouan as Jul…
Hair, trade, exploration, noodles: the complexities of diasporic movement in twenty-nine works.
Rina Banerjee: Black Noodles, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Perrotin. Photo: Gui…
Sinister sister, sister: adapted as a limited series, Cronenberg's 1988 film about perverted twin gynecologists gets a girl-boss makeover.
Rachel Weisz as Elliot Mantle and Beverly Mantle i…
A new novel by Henry Hoke captures and sets free the emotional inner life of P-22, the famed LA mountain lion.
Open Throat, by Henry Hoke, MCD, 160 pages, $25
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A tribute to all that we owe to the late, great queen of rock and roll.
Tina Turner and Ikettes perform for Bolic Sound KMET Broadcast, May 1973. Courtesy Warner Bros. Discovery.
1939"2023…
In a career retrospective of over three hundred works by the German conceptual artist, a refusal to be one thing.
Rosemarie Trockel, installation view. Courtesy Museum für Moderne Kunst. P…
Where there's a willy there's a way: João Pedro Rodrigues's new film about climate collapse, Portugal's colonial past, and homoerotics in the firehouse.
Mauro Costa as Alfredo and André…
A retired spy, an incognito woman: the final novel by the late Spanish writer Javier MarÃas.
Tomás Nevinson, by Javier MarÃas, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Knopf, 640 pages, …
Scholar Florian Fuchs's new book argues for short-form writing's potential to transform a reader's "lifeworld."
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature, by …
