“The lyric winds through her work as it does in Auden and Thomas, though her commitment to voices always feels more like the point. She dreams so that she can come back and tell the children what she dreamed.”—@sashafrerejones on Fanny Howe’s final book 4columns.org/frere-jones-sas…
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“Flights of fancy fit seamlessly into the film, advancing the idea that erotic energy is itself a mystical power, drawing from and feeding into other invisible currents.”—@MelissEAnderson writes about Lucio Castro’s “Drunken Noodles” @IFCCenter 4columns.org/anderson-meliss…
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ICYMI: From our LAST ISSUE! Don’t miss @sashafrerejones on the goofy and the serious in “This Poor Book,” the final volume by the late Fanny Howe @GraywolfPress; Aruna D’Souza on art as a form of mutual aid in “Greater New York 2026” @MoMAPS1; and more. 4columns.org
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“Impossible not to consider this book an urgent mediation on current violence, actual and verbal, and on the ways that present atrocities echo earlier periods of murder and banishment.”—Brian Dillon reviews “Incinarration” by Hélène Cixous @seagullbooks 4columns.org/dillon-brian/in…
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“While I, for one, am often paralyzed by the weight of all the shit going on around us, these artists are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work.”—Aruna D’Souza writes about “Greater New York” @MoMAPS1 4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/g…
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“Rosie is the purported subject, but lineage is a close second, and the ways Myles finds to connect incongruent characters evince the poet’s signature logic.”—Moyra Davey reviews “Afterglow (a dog memoir)” by @EileenMyles @groveatlantic, from the archive 4columns.org/davey-moyra/aft…
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“Is there a poet who isn’t her child? Which of us did not see God anew through Fanny?”—@sashafrerejones writes about “This Poor Book,” the final collections of poems by the late Fanny Howe @GraywolfPress 4columns.org/frere-jones-sas…
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“The spirit of David Hockney infuses Castro’s feature, which is similarly carnal in a casual, playful way.”—@MelissEAnderson writes about Lucio Castro’s new film “Drunken Noodles” @IFCCenter 4columns.org/anderson-meliss…
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“One of its primary pleasures is the intimate peephole it provides into the private lives of now-historical art-world figures”—Ed Halter writes about “A Bigger Splash,” Jack Hazan's 1970s David Hockney docufiction, from the archive 4columns.org/halter-ed/a-big…
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“In her new essay-memoir-fiction-of-sorts, she reflects on catastrophe and freedom, hope and denial, a family’s stories about who survived disaster and who did not.”—Brian Dillon on “Incinarration” by Hélène Cixous, translated by Peggy Kamuf @seagullbooks 4columns.org/dillon-brian/in…
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“If Mamdani’s address were an art exhibition, it would be ‘Greater New York.’ The fifty-three artists and collectives offer up a picture of the city that doesn’t shy away from the hardships we face.”—Aruna D’Souza writes about “Greater New York” @MoMAPS1 4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/g…
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OUT NOW! FINAL ISSUE!: @MelissEAnderson on Lucio Castro’s playfully carnal film “Drunken Noodles” @IFCCenter, Brian Dillon on language and literature in “Incinarration: What Do We Carry?” by Hélène Cixous, translated by Peggy Kamuf @seagullbooks, and more. 4columns.org
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An aptly cheeky, queer, sexy final film for the great @MelissEAnderson to ply her "trade" on as she ends a phenomenal run at @4_columns, which was lucky to have her brilliance for the past wonderful decade.
I wrote about DRUNKEN NOODLES for this week's—and the final—issue of @4_columns. 4columns.org/anderson-meliss…
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Fridays won't be the same without @4_columns. It was one of my favorite places to write for (and I never had to send "checking in about payment" emails). They took criticism seriously but allowed their writers to be playful. I'm glad to have been a part of it.
OUT NOW: ISSUE 408! Aruna D’Souza on “Greater New York” @MoMAPS1, Brian Dillon on “Incinarration” by Hélène Cixous @seagullbooks, @MelissEAnderson on Lucio Castro’s “Drunken Noodles,” and @sashafrerejones on “This Poor Book” by Fanny Howe @GraywolfPress 4columns.org
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OUT NOW: ISSUE 408! Aruna D’Souza on “Greater New York” @MoMAPS1, Brian Dillon on “Incinarration” by Hélène Cixous @seagullbooks, @MelissEAnderson on Lucio Castro’s “Drunken Noodles,” and @sashafrerejones on “This Poor Book” by Fanny Howe @GraywolfPress 4columns.org
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“Boards of Canada crafts a rich interior world to express unusual and complicated thoughts. Confusion about the future and uncertainty about the past can be depicted at the same time.”—@geetadayal reviews @boardsofcanada’s new album “Inferno” @WarpRecords 4columns.org/dayal-geeta/boa…
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“One of the interesting things about Aviv’s work is its willingness to deal with the possibility that the mystery will not be resolved tidily, or at all.”—@thomasbeller on “You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters” by Rachel Aviv @AAKnopf 4columns.org/beller-thomas/y…
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LAST ISSUE OUT THIS FRIDAY!: @MelissEAnderson on the fluidity of time and bodily emissions in Lucio Castro’s film “Drunken Noodles" @IFCCenter, @sashafrerejones writes about “This Poor Book,” the final volume by the late Fanny Howe @GraywolfPress, & more. 4columns.org/follow
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