Books

• Pamela Zoline, The Heat Death of the Universe
• Tom Whalen, The President in Her Towers
• Nicholson Baker, Vox
• Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
• Richard Stark, The Jugger

Films

• Contagion, directed by Steven Soderbergh
• Miller’s Crossing, dir. Joel Coen
• Ocean’s Twelve, dir. Steven Soderbergh
• Quai des Orfèvres, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Twentieth Century, dir. Howard Hawks
• Brick, dir. Rian Johnson

Exhibits

• “Anything Can Substitute Art: Maciunas in Soho,” Cooper Gallery
• “Diaries: An Anthology of Photography from Italy,” Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art
• “Rooms of Wonder: From Wunderkammer to Museum, 1599–1899,” Grolier Club
• “Sleeping Eros,” Met
• “The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785–1850,” Met
• “Birds in the Art of Japan,” Met