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I wrote about MIROIRS NO. 3 for this week’s @4_columns. 4columns.org/anderson-melis…

OUT NOW: ISSUE 395! Pamela Sneed on Ralph Lemon @PaulaCooperNY, Mark Dery on “The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis” by Fernando Pessoa, @MelissEAnderson on Christian Petzold’s new film “Miroirs No. 3,” and Sasha Frere-Jones on “Offenses” by Constance Debré 4columns.org

“Having watched more seasons than I care to admit, it occurs to me that the realest thing about the show is seeing the magnitude of unmet needs in people’s lives. Looking for love is like asking for a profounder kind of help.”—Paul Chan on “Love Is Blind” 4columns.org/chan-paul/love…

“Elucid’s new work is the first I’ve heard in months that’s made me daydream about the prospects of a renaissance so subtle it won’t succumb to the same cycle of hype and hazard.”—@Harmony_Holiday reviews @elucidwho & Sebb Bash’s new album @BackwoodzHipHop 4columns.org/holiday-harmon…

THIS FRIDAY: Pamela Sneed on timelessness in “Ralph Lemon: From Out of Space” @PaulaCooperNY, Sasha Frere-Jones on the surreality of Constance Debré’s “Offenses” @SemiotextePress & more. Sign up for our free e-newsletter to get weekly issues in your inbox. 4columns.org/follow

ICYMI: ISSUE 394 is up for one more day! Don’t miss Paul Chan writing about different notions of love in the new season of “Love Is Blind”; Will Noah on humor and autofiction in “Now I Surrender” by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer; and more. 4columns.org

“By jumping back and forth between the perspectives of Mexican and American characters, Álvaro Enrigue brings their visions of the Apache enemy, along with their self-justifications, into unbearable tension with each other.”—Will Noah on “Now I Surrender” 4columns.org/noah-will/now-…

“Gyllenhaal herself, it seems, cannot stop digging for parts to reinvigorate, splicing together genre tropes and scattering unsubtle Easter eggs for film buffs everywhere.”—Johanna Fateman writes about Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new film, “The Bride!” 4columns.org/fateman-johann…

“ ‘Love Story’ plays with the ideas of empathy, authenticity, and spectacle: what does it take for us, as viewers, to pay attention to the lives of people who have been driven from their homes?”—Aruna D’Souza on Candice Breitz @mfaboston, from the archive 4columns.org/d-souza-aruna/…

“In a sense, the show doesn’t take place in this world, but a more substantive, ideal reality beyond it. Like Plato’s republic for the lovelorn.”—Paul Chan writes about the latest season of “Love Is Blind” 4columns.org/chan-paul/love…

“ ‘I Guess U Had to Be There’ assumes the personality of a book of poems, and listening feels a lot like reading in that you catch enjambed lines and turns more often than raps with aggressive centers and ideologies.”—@Harmony_Holiday on Elucid & Sebb Bash 4columns.org/holiday-harmon…

“Mary Shelley wrote the first science-fiction novel, ‘Frankenstein,’ in 1818 and the genre has been rethinking nature and society ever since. What do women want to see in the world?”—@jcfphillips on “The Future Is Female!” @LibraryAmerica, from the archive 4columns.org/phillips-julie…

“Where US authors revising the myths of the West have dialed up the bloodshed, Álvaro Enrigue’s preferred twist is a wry strain of humor. Though there’s no shortage of flayed skin, the tone hovers between impish and elegiac.”—Will Noah on “Now I Surrender” 4columns.org/noah-will/now-…

Still the best piece on OBAA…4columns.org/pinkerton-nick…

“Ida and Frank are in some sense like a neo-noir Thelma and Louise; their love story works because Frank is fundamentally gentle and fun but kills rapists, a behavior that propels the plot and dooms him.”—Johanna Fateman on Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” 4columns.org/fateman-johann…

OUT NOW! ISSUE 394: @Harmony_Holiday on the lyricism of the mundane in Elucid & Sebb Bash’s new album, “I Guess U Had To Be There”; Johanna Fateman writes about all the almost-good ideas in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!”; and more. 4columns.org

4columns.org/holiday-harmon… @Harmony_Holiday 👌🏾👌🏾

Snapshot of the subtle intergenerational trauma in hip hop 4columns.org/holiday-harmon…

4columns.org/holiday-harmon… On an album that feels like a book of poems & psalms

"The entire movie proceeds as a stupefying series of missed opportunities and almost-good ideas." —Johanna Fateman on THE BRIDE!, in this week's @4_columns. 4columns.org/fateman-johann…