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<description><![CDATA[4Columns is a website of arts criticism aimed at a general audience. Its title refers, quite literally, to what you’ll find there each week: four new columns, each with a distinctive voice and perspective. Together, they offer a complex and compelling view of contemporary culture, from film to literature to theater to the visual arts.]]></description>
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<title>Grandma Moses</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Krasinski]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[One viewer&rsquo;s embrace of sweet nostalgia is another&rsquo;s 
artificial fantasy of yesteryear.

Grandma Moses: A Good Day&rsquo;s Work, installation view. Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum. Photo: Albert Ting.

Grandma Moses: A Good...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/krasinski-jennifer/grandma-moses</link>
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<title>La maison des bois</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Anderson]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Maurice Pialat&rsquo;s compassionate 1971 miniseries examines the Great War&rsquo;s fracturing of civilian life.

Herv&eacute; L&eacute;vy as ​​Herv&eacute; Gardy and Michel Terrazon as Michel Latour in La maison des bois. Courtesy Janus...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/anderson-melissa/la-maison-des-bois</link>
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<title>The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sasha Archibald]]></dc:creator>
<category>Nonfiction</category>
<description><![CDATA[Rosa Campbell chronicles Shere Hite&rsquo;s groundbreaking 1976 report on clitoral stimulation and its fate in the culture.

The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report, by Rosa Campbell, 
Melville...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/archibald-sasha/the-book-that-taught-the-world-to-orgasm-and-then-disappeared</link>
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<title>Ceija Stojka</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ania Szremski]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[Light in the dark, dark in the light: the Austrian Romani artist&rsquo;s work is given space to speak for itself in a show at the Drawing Center.

Ceija Stojka: Making Visible, installation view. Courtesy the Drawing Center. Photo: Daniel...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/szremski-ania/ceija-stojka</link>
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<title>Superstars</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Dillon]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[C&rsquo;est cool . . . Ann Scott&rsquo;s novel set amid a &rsquo;90s Parisian milieu of techno beats, club drugs, and bisexual ravers.

Superstars, by Ann Scott, translated by Jonathan Woollen, 
Astra House, 304 pages, $22


&bull;&nbsp;...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/dillon-brian/superstars</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/dillon_superstars_cover_image_use_me_new.jpg" length="900126" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Blue Heron</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Orange]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Family tragedy and fracture evoke lingering questions in Sophy Romvari&rsquo;s debut feature, set on Vancouver Island.

Still from&nbsp;Blue Heron. Courtesy Janus Films.

Blue Heron, written and directed by Sophy Romvari, now playing in theaters in...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/orange-michelle/blue-heron</link>
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<title>Noah Davis</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aruna D’Souza]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[A traveling retrospective of essential viewing makes an elegiac landing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Noah Davis, installation view. Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art. Pictured, far left: Forty Acres and a Unicorn, 2007. Second from left:...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/noah-davis-2026</link>
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<title>Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sukhdev Sandhu]]></dc:creator>
<category>Nonfiction</category>
<description><![CDATA[Created in collaboration with Anselm Kiefer, a new book by the late Alexander Kluge reveals the polymath&rsquo;s dizzying, 
allusive, spellbinding depths.

Intelligence is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances, by Alexander...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/sandhu-sukhdev/intelligence-is-the-art-of-remaining-faithful-under-shifting-circumstances</link>
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<title>Whitney Biennial 2026</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ania Szremski]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[The critics aren&rsquo;t all right: this year&rsquo;s survey is a sharply political and totally sincere iteration.

Whitney Biennial 2026, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Jason Lowrie / BFA.com. &copy; BFA....]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/szremski-ania/whitney-biennial-2026</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/szremski_whitney-biennial-2026_image_1.jpg" length="556083" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>No New York</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geeta Dayal]]></dc:creator>
<category>Punk</category>
<description><![CDATA[Adele Bertei&rsquo;s book forefronts the many women artists, filmmakers, and musicians who were integral to the no wave scene.

No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene, by Adele Bertei, Beacon Press, 328 pages,...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/dayal-geeta/no-new-york</link>
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<title>Tina Aumont</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beatrice Loayza]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[In a new retrospective series at Anthology, an indelible actress whose story remains full of ellipses.

Tina Aumont as Henriette in Fellini&rsquo;s Casanova. &copy; Universal.

&ldquo;La fille des &eacute;toiles: Tina Aumont,&rdquo; Anthology Film...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/loayza-beatrice/tina-aumont</link>
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<title>The Palm House</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zack Hatfield]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[Awkward parties, dreary bars, rudderless female narrator: Gwendoline Riley&rsquo;s latest is a delicate novel about love, friendship, and contempt.

The Palm House, by Gwendoline Riley, 
New York Review Books, 211 pages, $16.95


&bull;&nbsp;...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/hatfield-zack/the-palm-house</link>
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<title>The Christophers</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Anderson]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh&rsquo;s intriguing new drama about the anguish of abandoning one&rsquo;s art.

Michaela Coel as Lori Butler and Ian McKellen as Julian Sklar in The Christophers. Courtesy Neon. Photo: Claudette Barius.

The Christophers, directed...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/anderson-melissa/the-christophers</link>
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<title>Transcription</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sasha Frere-Jones]]></dc:creator>
<category>Literature</category>
<description><![CDATA[In Ben Lerner&rsquo;s fourth novel, the dilemma of a broken phone powers a story about consciousness and connection.

Transcription, by Ben Lerner, 
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 130 pages, $25


&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull;


For Ben...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/frere-jones-sasha/transcription</link>
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<title>Robyn</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Lee]]></dc:creator>
<category>Pop</category>
<description><![CDATA[With her latest album, Sexistential, the artist enters her neurochemistry era.

Sexistential, by Robyn, 
Young


&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&bull;


That sound you heard last November when Robyn released &ldquo;Dopamine,&rdquo; the lead...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/lee-nathan/robyn</link>
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<title>The Wonderful World That Almost Was</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moyra Davey]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[Lovers, friends, rivals, antagonists: Andrew Durbin&rsquo;s revelatory biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.

The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, by Andrew Durbin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 480 pages,...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/davey-moyra/the-wonderful-world-that-almost-was</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/davey_the-wonderful-world-that-almost-was_cover_image.jpg" length="461905" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Gone bird-watchin&#x26;rsquo; . . .</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[4 Columns]]></dc:creator>
<category>Holidays</category>
<description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re taking a spring-break hiatus, but will be returning on Friday, April 3!

4Columns mascot Sparky and assistant senior editor Bolek are looking forward to taking things bird by bird during spring break.

Spring has sprung, and our avian...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/columns-4/gone-bird-watchin</link>
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<title>The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Dery]]></dc:creator>
<category>Poetry</category>
<description><![CDATA[A collection of poetry by one of Fernando Pessoa&rsquo;s most gifted heteronyms presents an ode to the antidisciplinarian spirit.

The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis, by Fernando Pessoa, edited by Jer&oacute;nimo Pizarro and Jorge Uribe, translated...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/dery-mark/the-complete-works-of-ricardo-reis</link>
<enclosure url="https://4columns.org/img/column/dery_the-complete-works-of-richard-reis_cover_image.jpg" length="254085" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Miroirs No. 3</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melissa Anderson]]></dc:creator>
<category>Film</category>
<description><![CDATA[The unheimlich maneuver: Christian Petzold&rsquo;s film pits the cozy rituals of domesticity against the eeriness of family secrets.

Philip Froissant as Jakob, Paula Beer as Laura, and Barbara Auer as Betty in Miroirs No. 3. Courtesy Track Shot...]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/anderson-melissa/miroirs-no-3</link>
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<title>Ralph Lemon</title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamela Sneed]]></dc:creator>
<category>Visual Art</category>
<description><![CDATA[In the artist&rsquo;s exhibition, an unsettling visual travelogue through Black history and the American South.

Ralph Lemon: From Out of Space, installation view. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery. Photo: Steven Probert Studio. &copy; Ralph Lemon....]]></description>
<link>https://4columns.org/sneed-pamela/ralph-lemon</link>
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