october 2025 edition.

Sounds
- Office Ambience 501, The Wire, October 2025
- Nakibemebe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida, Phantom Keys
- Raphael Rogiński & Ružičnjak Tajni, Bura
- Tom Skinner, Kaleidoscope Visions
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith, “A Line Through Time,” Angel Falls
- Kansai Ché-Shizu, “Nazare,” Live At Nambaya
- Loud Numbers, The Sonification Machine
- Yuri Suzuki, The Ambient Machine
Words
- Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Susan Choi, My Education
- Percival Everett, Dr. No
- Jess Walter, So Far Gone
- Ralph Young, American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent
- Spencer Tweedy and Lawrence Azerrad, Mirror Sound: A Look into the People and Processes Behind Self-Recorded Music
- Alfred Hilsberg and the legacy of ZickZack, The Wire, October 2025
- Emily Holzknecht and Binyamin Appelbaum, “Thanks a Lot, Boomers.” New York Times, 17 October 2025
- Robert Kuttner, “No, the Boomers Did Not Take It All,” American Prospect, 21 October 2025
- Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket
- Henning Fries, “Obituary: Farewell to Robots.Txt (1994-2025),” Developer, 15 October 2025
- Michael Denning, “Everyone a Legislator,” New Left Review 129 (June 2021): 29–44
- Tony Judt, “A Clown in Regal Purple: Social History and the Historians,” History Workshop Journal 7, 1 (1979): 66–94
- Gia Kourlas, “A Dance in a SoHo Loft With the Ghosts Who Haunt It,” New York Times, 21 October 2025
- Jordan Troeller, Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury
- Zadie Smith, “The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith,” New Yorker, 22 September 2025
- Brian Seibert and George Etheredge, “When Robert Rauschenberg Found a Home in Dance,” New York Times 2 June 2025
- Barry Schwabsky, What T.J. Clark Sees, The Nation, 22 October 2025
Walls
- Teresa Baker, Shift in the Clouds @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- Dionne Lee, Outlooks @ Storm King Art
- Northern Lights @ Buffalo AKG Art Museum
- Wanda Koop, Magnetic Field @ Night Gallery at Arsena
- Esteban Vicente @ Miles McEnery
- Liz Larner, Maybe Not @ Anton Kern
- Cora Cohen, A Decade: 2012–22 @ Greene Naftali
- Joel Shapiro @ Paula Cooper Gallery
- Christina Fernandez, Multiple Exposures @ Depaul Museum of Art
Stages
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay @ Metropolitan Opera, 02 October 2025
- Al río / To the River – A Panel Discussion in New York @ Americas Society, 15 October 2025
- Valentina Alvarado Matos @ Visual Studies Workshop, 17 October 2025
- Black Monument Ensemble @ Harris Theater, 24 October 2025
- The Passion According to Janair @ CUNY Graduate Center, 29 October 2025
Screens
- Slow Horses, Season 05
- Thunderbolts: The New Avengers
- The Diplomat, Season 03
- One Battle After Another
- The Last Frontier, Season 01
- Licorice Pizza