465 stories from 4columns
The 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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Drugs, 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 Brunckhor…
An artist in pursuit of unpredictable outcomes.
Pierre Huyghe: In Imaginal, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Alex Yudzon. Pictured: Annlee " UUmwelt…
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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An 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…
A 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 Nishi…
With 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…
Never the same experience twice for the ninety-three-year-old
French composer.
Alien Roots: EÌliane Radigue, edited by Charles Curtis and Lawrence Kumpf, Blank Forms, $25
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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,
Avid…
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4Columns assistant senior editor Bolek and mascot Sparky take Spring Training very ser…
Sex, 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 Black …
Amid 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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An 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: 1940…
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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Humor 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 M…
A 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 an…
Sounds 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…
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 Mescal …
52 Walker's cross-generational pairing of the composer and the visual artist defies easy interpretations.
Julius Eastman &Â Glenn Ligon: Evil Nigger, installation view. Courtesy 52 Wa…
Finding symbolism and the self in the landscapes of nature: seventy-five works by the preeminent painter of German Romanticism.
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, installation view…
Isolation, frustration, flirtation, friction, friendship: Philippe Lesage's latest film is a subtle study of the playing out of power dynamics during a Quebec wilderness vacation.
Cast in W…
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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In her 1998 book, Shulamith Firestone, author of the classic feminist text The Dialectic of Sex, chronicles mental illness and
institutionalization with dark humor.
Airless Spaces, by Shul…
Angst, check. Complaints, check. Perfectly listenable slow jams, check. Guaranteed obsolescence, check.
$ome $exy $ongs 4 U, by Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR,
OVO Sound, Santa Anna, Republic Rec…
For the man from nowhere, leaving is best: a young Parisian sojourns to Tunisia, where he was born, and finds few answers in Guy Gilles's beguiling 1970 film.
Patrick Jouané as Pierre in E…
