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The first monograph of artist Greer Lankton's defiantly disturbing
doll tableaux.
Could It Be Love, by Greer Lankton, edited by Francis Schichtel, Jordan Weitzman, and Nan Goldin, Magic Ho…
Soraya Antonius's 1986 novel, newly reissued, paints a breathtakingly vivid portrait of pre-nakba Palestine.
The Lord, by Soraya Antonius,
New York Review Books, 227 pages, $17.95
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Wood, bronze, clay, fiber, oil paint, film: an expansive survey of work by thirty-four contemporary artists and collectives from the Amazon basin.
Amazonia Açu, installation view. Courte…
Who was the Boss?: the musician's outsize influence in Scott Cooper's new biopic makes for too tidy of a story.
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhe…
Remembering the late singer's suave, swagger, and sweetness.
D'Angelo performs at the Aire Crown Theater in Chicago, April 2000. Courtesy Getty Images. Photo: Paul Natkin / WireImage.
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A series of one-year performances demonstrate the merging of
art time and life time.
Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978"1999, installation view. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobs…
Chris Kraus's new novel chronicles the crimes and injustices
of rural impoverishment.
The Four Spent the Day Together, by Chris Kraus,
Scribner, 304 pages, $29
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Kelly Reichardt's latest film: a bumbling suburban dad, a fumbled art heist, and a portrait of a nation on the decline.
Josh O'Connor as James Blaine Mooney in The Mastermind. Courtesy Cine…
In Julio Cortázar's surrealism, a displacement of the real.
A Certain Lucas, by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa,
New Directions, 121 pages, $15.95
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A setup familiar to contemporary fiction and romance ends up defying expectations in the latest novel by Claire-Louise Bennett.
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, by Claire-Louise Bennett,
Riverhead Books…
A collection of three dozen essays examines the intertwined histories of built environments and the scourges they harbor, house, and cause.
Sick Architecture, edited by Beatriz Colomina wit…
Jamie Lloyd's new production of Samuel Beckett's play is in danger of punking a classic most heinously.
Alex Winter as Vladimir and Keanu Reeves as Estragon in Waiting for Godot. Courtesy D…
In the late writer-director's works, portraits of headstrong women under the influence of adventurous spirits.
Emmanuelle Devos as Pomme in If You Don't, I Will. Courtesy L'Alliance New Yor…
A new retrospective at the Jewish Museum showcases the artist's commitment to the fight against fascism and oppression.
Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity, installation view. Courtesy the Jewish M…
In Paul Thomas Anderson's action-comedy-drama about members of a leftist militant group, tidy ideologies make for a story more
soothing than disquieting.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson …
The singer's sixteenth studio album, Here for It All.
Here for It All, by Mariah Carey, Gamma
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Pop superstars, whose talents are so often eroded by the rigors of …
Absurdities, conspiracies, homegrown fascists: in Thomas Pynchon's novel set in 1932, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, 2…
Tess of the suburbanvilles and pills: in Natasha Stagg's second novel, a woman looks back on her tumultuous early-2000s adolescence.
Grand Rapids, by Natasha Stagg,
Semiotext(e), 221 pages…
A Rock and a soft place: in Benny Safdie's biopic, Dwayne Johnson plays UFC champ Mark Kerr as a brawler with a big heart.
Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. Courtesy A24.…
The first solo show outside France of the Canadian artist, who died in her early thirties in 1983, presents tantalizing works haunted by an atmosphere of absence and loss.
Alix Cléo Roubau…
Wateryworld: language and its faults make for a story of amphibolous feelings in the inaugural installment of Jon Fosse's new trilogy set in a small fishing town.
Vaim, by Jon Fosse, transl…
A new book by artist Lana Lin drawing from Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas digs into the Asian understory
of Stein's and Toklas's writings.
The Autobiography of H. La…
In two films by Chantal Akerman playing as part of MoMA's complete retrospective, teenage heroines ramble through city streets
hungering for more.
Pascale Salkin and Maria de Medeiros in J…
Three decades after they were taken, the artist's photographs of historical armor take on a terrifying gleam of violent ideology and elitist systems.
Zoe Leonard: Display, installation view…
A 1979 Linton Kwesi Johnson documentary by Franco Rosso is a portrait of the artist as principled activist.
Linton Kwesi Johnson in Dread Beat an Blood. Courtesy Seventy-Seven.
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