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We’ll be back with a new issue on December 5! In the meantime, we’re offering up an array of culinarily-inclined reviews to whet your appetite.
4Columns mascot Sparky and assistant senior editor Bolek are thankful for the wonders of a good meal with loved ones.
Another year, another holiday weekend . . . To help ease your stomach (and psyche) into a season of food and festivities, our editors present a flavorful buffet of past pieces focused on all things gastronomical: prepping and partaking, cooking and convening. You can also always browse through our archives for a taste of more!
New issues will resume next Friday!
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Melissa Anderson on Trân Anh Hùng’s The Taste of Things
Juliette Binoche as Eugénie and Benoît Magimel as Dodin in The Taste of Things. Courtesy Stéphanie Branchu.
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Marie NDiaye’s The Cheffe,
translated by Jordan Stump
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Alex Kitnick on Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE, installation view. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kyle Knodell. Pictured: untitled 1990 (pad thai), 1990. Mixed media.
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Rhoda Feng on Stephen Sondheim and David Ives’s Here We Are
Cast of Here We Are. Photo: Emilio Madrid.
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Ania Szremski on Joy Sorman’s Tenderloin, translated by Lara Vergnaud
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Aruna D’Souza on Rachel Martin
Rachel Martin, If our table could talk, 2024. Courtesy Hannah Traore Gallery. Photo: Evan Hunter McKnight.