september 1–15, 2026

Books

  • Steven Saylor, Catalina’s Riddle
  • David Malouf, Ransom
  • Robert Harris, Lustrum
  • Steven Saylor, The House of the Vestals
  • Steven Saylor, A Gladiator Dies Only Once
  • Deborah Levy, My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein
  • Dorothy Richardson, Oberland
  • Robert Harris, Dictator

Films

  • Ηλέκτρα (Electra), directed by Michael Cacoyannis
  • The Trojan Women, dir. Michael Cacoyannis
  • ゴジラ・モスラ・キングギドラ大怪獣総進撃 (Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack), dir. Shusuke Kaneko
  • A Serious Man, dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • ゴジラvsデストロイア (Godzilla vs. Destoroyah), dir. Takao Okawara
  • ゴジラvsビオランテ (Godzilla vs. Biollante), dir. Kazuki Ōmori
  • モスラ対ゴジラ (Mothra vs. Godzilla), dir. Ishirō Honda
  • Ιφιγένεια (Iphigenia), dir. Michael Cacoyannis

august 16–31, 2026

Books

  • Rex Stout, A Right to Die
  • Statius, Achilleiad, translated by Stanley Lombardo
  • Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls
  • Gilbert Adair, The Dreamers
  • Pat Barker, The Women of Troy
  • Pat Barker, The Voyage Home
  • Gianni Rodari, The Adventures of Cipollino, trans. Anthony Shugaar
  • Homer, The Iliad, trans. Emily Wilson
  • Christopher Logue, Kings
  • Christopher Logue, The Husbands
  • Christopher Logue, All Day Permanent Red
  • Christopher Logue, Cold Calls
  • Christopher Logue, War Music
  • Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang
  • Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy
  • Robert Harris, Pompeii
  • Robert Harris, Imperium

Films

  • Un sacco bello, dir. Carlo Verdone
  • Honey Don’t!, dir. Ethan Coen
  • Accident, dir. Joseph Losey
  • The Pigeon Tunnel, dir. Errol Morris
  • 怪獣総進撃 (Destroy All Monsters), dir. Ishirō Honda
  • Il sorpasso, dir. Dino Risi
  • Odissea, dir. Franco Rossi
  • Everyone Is Lying to You for Money, dir. Ben McKenzie & Giorgio Angelini

Exhibits

  • Museo archeologico e d’arte della Maremma/Museo d’arte sacra della diocesi di Grosseto, Grosseto

august 1–15, 2026

Books

  • Rex Stout, Gambit
  • Rex Stout, The Mother Hunt
  • Colm Toíbín, House of Names
  • Rex Stout, Trio for Blunt Instruments
  • Donald Barthelme, City Life

Films

  • I Saw the TV Glow, directed by Jane Schoenbrun
  • Medea, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • The Return, dir. Uberto Pasolini
  • Terrore nello spazio (Planet of the Vampires), dir. Mario Bava
  • Lifeforce, dir. Tobe Hooper
  • Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, dir. Allan Arkush
  • Father Mother Sister Brother, dir. Jim Jarmusch
  • Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours (My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days), dir. Andrzej Żuławski
  • L’Important c’est d’aimer (That Most Important Thing: Love), dir. Andrzej Żuławski
  • Nouvelle Vague, dir. Richard Linklater
  • L’Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Un Flic, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
  • La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), dir. Jacques Deray
  • Mysterious Skin, dir. Gregg Araki
  • Sinners, dir. Ryan Coogler
  • Les Biches, dir. Claude Chabrol
  • Les Cousins, dir. Claude Chabrol

Exhibits

  • Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo
  • Terme di Caracalla, Roma
  • Museo nazionale romano – Palazzo Massimo, Roma
  • Museo nazionale romano – Terme di Diocleziano, Roma
  • “Ægyptus: dal Nilo al Mediterraneo. Oasi e deserto in epoca romana,” Museo nazionale romano – Museo dell’arte salvata
  • “Mircea Canto: Costellazioni dell’antico,” Museo nazionale romano – Palazzo Altemps, Roma
  • Accademia nazionale di San Luca, Roma
  • Museo archeologico nazionale e parco archeologico antica Città di Cosa, Ansedonia

july 16–31, 2026

Books

  • Rex Stout, The Final Deduction
  • Homer, The Odyssey, translated by W. H. D. Rouse
  • Rex Stout, Homicide Trinity
  • Homer, The Iliad, trans. E. V. Rieu, ed. Peter Jones
  • Ellery Queen, The Roman Hat Mystery
  • Dorothy Richardson, The Trap

Films

  • Histoires extraordinaires (Spirits of the Dead), directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle & Federico Fellini
  • The Odyssey, dir. Christopher Nolan
  • Phantom Lady, dir. Robert Siodmak
  • Man Hunt, dir. Fritz Lang
  • Jackass: Best and Last, dir. Jeff Tremaine
  • In the Hand of Dante, dir. Julian Schnabel
  • Fando y Lis, dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • The Blue Gardenia, dir. Fritz Lang
  • Jacquot de Nantes, dir. Agnès Varda

Exhibits

  • Museo Pietro Canonica, Roma
  • “Lanterne magiche. Fotografie dalla collezione Valerio De Paolis”, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Roma
  • Museo di Casal de’ Pazzi, Roma
  • “Helidon Xhixha: Lumen ex terra,” Case romane del Celio, Roma
  • “Moda in luce 1955-1975. Roma fra glamour e innovazione industriale,” Centrale Montemartini, Roma
  • Casa Museo Mario Praz, Roma
  • Museo Napoleonico, Roma
  • “Robert Mapplethorpe. Le forme della bellezza,” Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Roma
  • “La Visitazione all’Aquila. Raffaello e Pontormo,” Museo nazionale d’Abruzzo, L’Aquila
  • “Ai Weiwei: Aftershock,” Maxxi L’Aquila, L’Aquila
  • Galleria Doria Pamphilij, Roma

july 1–15, 2026

Books

  • Sherwood King, If I Die Before I Wake
  • Giada Scodellaro, Ruins, Child
  • Robert Plunket, Love Junkie
  • Dorothy Richardson, Revolving Lights
  • E. F. Benson, Trouble for Lucia
  • Mary Gaitskill, Two Girls, Fat and Thin

Films

  • I Love Boosters, directed by Boots Riley
  • Desperate Living, dir. John Waters
  • Ripley’s Game, dir. Liliana Cavani
  • Call Her Savage, dir. John Francis Dillon
  • Killer’s Kiss, dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • Chimes at Midnight, dir. Orson Welles
  • Fear and Desire, dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • Glastonbury Fayre, dir. Nicolas Roeg & Peter Neal
  • Kafka, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • Human Desire, dir. Fritz Lang
  • Eden, dir. Mia Hansen-Løve
  • Backrooms, dir. Kane Parsons
  • Stranger on the Third Floor, dir. Boris Ingster
  • Blast of Silence, dir. Allen Baron
  • La Maman et la Putain (The Mother and the Whore), dir. Jean Eustache
  • Roma, dir. Federico Fellini

Exhibits

  • Casino dell’Aurora Pallavicini, Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, Roma
  • “Maria Lai. Essere è tessere,” Museo Madre, Napoli
  • “Living Collapse: A cura di Samuele Piazza,” Museo Madre, Napoli
  • Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
  • Galleria Colonna, Roma
  • Parco archeologico di Ostia Antica, Ostia
  • “Max Peiffer Watenphul. Pittore del Bauhaus,” Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Roma
  • Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia, Roma

june 16–30, 2026

Books

  • Donald Barthelme, Guilty Pleasures
  • E. F. Benson, Mapp and Lucia
  • E. F. Benson, Lucia’s Progress
  • Donald Barthelme, Snow White

Films

  • Guilty Bystander, directed by Joseph Lerner
  • The Stranger, dir. Orson Welles
  • Macbeth, dir. Orson Welles
  • The Lady from Shanghai, dir. Orson Welles
  • Phantom of the Opera, dir. Arthur Lubin
  • The Diary of a Chambermaid, dir. Jean Renoir
  • Othello, dir. Orson Welles
  • Night and the City, dir. Jules Dassin
  • Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (The Crime of Monsieur Lange), dir. Jean Renoir
  • La Religieuse (The Nun), dir. Jacques Rivette
  • The Woman on the Beach, dir. Jean Renoir
  • Al di là delle nuvole (Beyond the Clouds), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

Exhibits

  • “Stella Honey: Photography of Tatia Franchetti Twombly,” Spazio Treccani Arte, Roma
  • Centrale Montemartini, Roma
  • “Da Vienna a Roma. Le Meraviglie degli Asburgo dal Kunsthistorisches Museum,” Museo del Corso Palazzo Cipolla, Roma
  • Galleria d’arte moderna, Roma

june 1–15, 2026

Books

  • Iris Murdoch, The Italian Girl
  • Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn
  • Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari
  • Donald Barthelme, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
  • Linea Maja Ernst, Waist Deep, translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
  • Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
  • Stevie Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper
  • E. F. Benson, Miss Mapp
  • E. F. Benson, Lucia in London

Films

  • Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (Jacques Villette, The Watchman), directed by Claire Denis & Serge Daney
  • Paris s’en va, dir. Jacques Rivette
  • Le ragazze di San Frediano (The Girls of San Frediano), dir. Valerio Zurlino
  • Do the Right Thing, dir. Spike Lee
  • La Bête (The Beast), dir. Walerian Borowczyk
  • Cronaca familiare (Family Diary), dir. Valerio Zurlini
  • I Walked with a Zombie, dir. Jacques Tourneur
  • 天使のたまご (Angel’s Egg), dir. Mamoru Oshii
  • Some Like It Hot, dir. Billy Wilder

Exhibits

  • Galleria Barberini, Roma
  • “La Maddalena di Piero di Cosimo: arte, storia e vite di donne nel Rinascimento fiorentino,” Palazzo Vittorio, Roma
  • Chiesa di Sant’Urbano alla Caffarella, Roma

may 16–31, 2026

Books

  • Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose
  • William Demby, The Catacombs
  • Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
  • E. F. Benson, Queen Lucia
  • Clare Carlisle, Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy

Films

  • Le beau mariage (The Good Marriage), directed by Éric Rohmer
  • Pauline à la plage (Pauline at the Beach), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Full Moon in Paris), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • L’Ami de mon amie (Boyfriends and Girlfriends), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Night Nurse, dir. William Wellman
  • Sotto le nuvole (Pompei: Below the Clouds), dir. Gianfranco Rosi
  • Le Pont du Nord, dir. Jacques Rivette

Exhibits

  • Musei Capitolini, Roma
  • Centrale Montemartini, Roma
  • Casa di Livia, Parco archeologico del Colosseo, Roma

may 1–15, 2026

Books

  • Rex Stout, Too Many Clients
  • The New Italian Poetry, 1945 to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology, edited and translated by Lawrence R. Smith
  • Dorothy Richardson, Interim
  • Camden Joy, The Last Rock Star Book, or: Liz Phair, a Rant
  • William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
  • Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Films

  • 극장전 (Tale of Cinema), directed by Hong Sang-soo
  • Человек с киноаппаратом (Man with a Movie Camera), dir. Dziga Vertov
  • Il paradiso del pavone (The Peacock’s Paradise), dir. Laura Bispuri
  • Vergine giurata (Sworn Virgin), dir. Laura Bispuri
  • Figlia mia (Daughter of Mine), dir. Laura Bispuri
  • Comment je me suis disputé . . . (ma vie sexuelle) (My Sex Life . . . or How I Got Into an Argument), dir. Arnaud Desplechin
  • Conte de printemps (A Tale of Springtime), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Conte d’hiver (A Tale of Winter), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Conte d été (A Summer’s Tale), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • Conte d’automne (A Tale of Autumn), dir. Éric Rohmer
  • La femme de l’aviateur (The Aviator’s Wife), dir. Éric Rohmer

Exhibits

  • Palazzo Venezia, Roma
  • “Francesca Woodman: Lately I Find a Sliver of Mirror Is Simply to Slice an Eyelid,” Gagosian, Roma
  • “Nelle foreste di Borneo. Viaggio di Odoardo Beccari nelle terre del Ragià Bianco,” Museo di storia naturale, La Specola, Firenze

april 16–30, 2026

Books

Films

  • Fiume o morte!, directed by Igor Bezinović
  • What Happened Was . . ., dir. Tom Noonan
  • Les deux anglaises et le continent (Two English Girls), dir. François Truffaut
  • Peter Hujar’s Day, dir. Ira Sachs
  • Golden Eighties, dir. Chantal Akerman
  • Il terrorista (The Terrorist), dir. Gianfranco de Bosio
  • Una question privata (Rainbow: A Private Affair), dir. Vittorio & Paolo Taviani
  • El realismo socialista (Socialist Realism), dir. Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento
  • Gimme Danger, dir. Jim Jarmusch
  • Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (My Golden Days), dir. Arnaud Desplechin

Exhibits

  • “GAM 100. Un secolo di Galleria Communale 1925–2025,” Galleria d’arte moderna, Roma
  • “The Large Glass, a cura di Alex Da Corte,” MAXXI, Roma
  • “Tragicomica: Prospettive sull’arte italiana dal secondo Novecento a oggi,” MAXXI, Roma
  • “Roma nel mondo,” MAXXI, Roma
  • “Franco Battiato: Un’altra vita,” MAXXI, Roma
  • “Ramak Fazel’s Milan Unit 1994–2009,” MAXXI, Roma
  • “Luigi Pellegrin: Prefigurazioni per Roma,” MAXXI, Roma
  • “Come nascono i classici: Gli autografi della letteratura italiana,” Villa Farnesina, Roma