4Columns is on holiday break, and will be back with a new issue on January 8, 2021! Til then, we look back on our most-read essays of 2020.
As this brutal year of 2020 comes to a weary end, we cherish one of its bright spots, at least for 4Columns: the 157 excellent, inspiring essays we had the privilege of publishing over the past twelve months. There’s not enough room to list all 157 of these exquisite contributions (though you can find them all in one place in our archive), but in a symbolic celebration, we have distilled our 10 most-read reviews of the past year:
Michelle Orange on Normal People
Hanif Abdurraqib on You’ve Got Mail
Paul Chan, Letter to Young Artists During a Global Pandemic
Hannah Black on BoJack Horseman
Ian Penman on Parliament and Funkadelic
Aruna D’Souza on Maurice Berger
A. S. Hamrah on The Conversation
Erika Balsom on Now We Think As We Fuck