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1 week ago | 4columns.org | Jennifer Krasinski

Thaddeus Mosley Jennifer Krasinski Twelve sculptures by the artist present a spirited balance between weight and levity. Thaddeus Mosley: Proximity, installation view. Courtesy Karma. Thaddeus Mosley: Proximity, Karma, 549 West Twenty-Sixth Street, New York City, through May 23, 2025•   •   •Love isn’t a tenable critical position, and, most of the time, I think that’s exactly as it should be. Love makes us corny, blurs our edges, and (the worst fate for a writer) induces hyperbole.

1 week ago | 4columns.org | Aruna D’Souza

Renée Green Aruna D’Souza Space, place, and mapping: the artist explores themes of imperialism and colonialism in a new show at Dia Beacon. Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved, installation view. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio. © Renée Green and Free Agent Media.

1 week ago | 4columns.org | Brian Dillon

In the Rhododendrons Brian Dillon In Heather Christle’s new book, the memorist haunts her own past through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s life and work.

2 weeks ago | 4columns.org | David Ulin

Speaking in Tongues David L. Ulin Language is a riddle to contemplate in a new book cowritten by J. M. Coetzee and translator Mariana Dimópulos. Speaking in Tongues, by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos, Liveright, 119 pages, $26.99•   •   •Language is a construct. Except, of course, when it is not. This conundrum sits at the center of Speaking in Tongues, a conversation in book form between the South African Nobel laureate J. M.

2 weeks ago | 4columns.org | Sasha Frere-Jones

To Hell With Poverty! Sasha Frere-Jones In a memoir by Jon King, the Gang of Four frontman looks back on the post-punk band’s formation amid the class struggles of a different era.