Books

• Nell Zink, Doxology
• John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All
• Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Sergius Seeks Bacchus, translated by Tiffany Tsao
• Nicola Pugliese, Malacqua: Four Days of Rain in the City of Naples, Waiting for the Occurrence of an Extraordinary Event, trans. Shaun Whiteside
• Miriam Toews, Women Talking
• Roland Topor, Head to Toe Portrait of Suzanne, trans. Andrew Hodgson
• Andrea Camilleri, The Brewer of Preston, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Gabriela Ybarra, The Dinner Guest, trans. Natasha Wimmer
• Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor, trans. Stephen Snyder
• Andrea Camilleri, The Paper Moon, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Claudio Magris, Snapshots, trans. Anne Milano Appel
• Andrea Camilleri, August Heat, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Jeffrey Yang, Vanishing-Line
• Italo Calvino, Mr. Palomar, trans. William Weaver
• Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate All the Brutes, trans. Joan Tate
• Sven Linqvist, Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One’s Land, trans. Sarah Death
• Andrea Camilleri, The Wings of the Sphinx, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, The Track of Sand, trans. Stephen Sartarelli

Films

• Sylvia Scarlett, directed by George Cukor
• Cry-Baby, dir. John Waters
• Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage), dir. Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallego
• If Beale Street Could Talk, dir. Barry Jenkins

Exhibits

• “Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s,” National Gallery, Singapore

Books

• Andrea Camilleri, The Snack Thief, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, Voice of the Violin, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, Excursion to Tindari, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Robert A. Kaster, The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
• W. Somerset Maugham, Maugham’s Malaysian Stories, edited by Anthony Burgess
• Goliarda Sapienza, The Art of Joy, trans. Anne Milano Appel
• Andrea Camilleri, The Smell of the Night, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, Death at Sea, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, Rounding the Mark, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Tim Parks, A Season in Verona
• Tim Parks, Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
• Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse, trans. Heather Lloyd
• Françoise Sagan, A Certain Smile, trans. Heather Lloyd
• Jeffrey Yang, Hey Marfa
• Andrea Camilleri, The Patience of the Spider, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
  

Films

• Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood, directed by Quentin Tarantino
• Bridges-Go-Round, dir. Shirley Clarke
• Event, dir. Siah Armajani
• To Perceive 10,000 Different Squares in 6 Minutes and 55 Seconds, dir. Siah Armajani
• Before/After, dir. Siah Armajani
• Inside/Outside, dir. Siah Armajani
• Rotating Line, dir. Siah Armajani
• Line, dir. Siah Armajani
• Koko: A Talking Gorilla, dir. Barbet Schroeder
• More, dir. Barbet Schroeder
• Bisbee ’17, dir. Robert Greene
• 薔薇の葬列 (Funeral Parade of Roses), dir. Toshio Matsumoto

Exhibits

• “Filippo Sciascia: Godspeed,” Yeo Workshop, Singapore
• “Phyoe Kyi: The Museum Project,” NTU CCA
• “Siah Armajani: Spaces for the Public. Spaces for Democracy.” NTU CCA
• “Poor Imagination,” Sullivan + Strumpf
• “Singapore Utopia,” Chan + Hori Contemporary
• “Summer Collective Exhibition 2019,” Mucciaccia Gallery
• “Hilmi Johandi: Stagecraft: Landscapes and Paradise,” Ota Fine Arts
• “Than Sok: Currents,” Richard Koh Fine Arts
• “Bree Jonson: Notes on Stillness,” Yavuz Gallery
• “Arin Rungjang: They Beat Your Father/Shooting an Elephant and the Leader,” Shanghart Gallery
• “Neverendingsummer,” Fost

Books

• Robert Byron, Europe in the Looking Glass
• Tim Parks, Italian Neighbours
• Tim Parks, An Italian Education
• Italo Calvino, The Road to San Giovanni, translated by Tim Parks
• W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up
• Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrew Camilleri, The Terracotta Dog, trans. Stephen Sartarelli

Exhibits

• “My Dearest Sweet Love: Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy,” Schwules Museum, Berlin
• Parco Archeologico di Baratti e Populonia, Piombino, Italy
• Galleria Barberini, Rome
• Centrale Montemartini, Rome
• “Dentro la strada novissima,” MAXXI, Rome
• “Maria Lai: tenendo per mano il sole,” MAXXI, Rome
• “Paola Pivi: World Record,” MAXXI, Rome
• “Al norte de la tormenta: i capolovari della collezione dell’IVAM di Valencia,” MAXXI, Rome
• “Olivo Barbieri, Paolo De Pietri, Petra Noordkamp: Terre in movimento,” MAXXI, Rome
• Villa Farnesina, Rome
• “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Sensitive Lens,” Galleria Corsini, Rome
• “Chiara Dynys: Enlightening Books,” Mattatoio, Rome
• Musei Capitolini, Rome

Books

• Georges Simenon, The Hand, translated by Linda Coverdale
• W. Someset Maugham, Up at the Villa
• Jamie James, The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
• Jacques Roubaud, Poetry, Etcetera: Cleaning House, trans. Guy Bennett
• Natascha Sadr Haghighian, How to Spell the Fight
• Haytham El-Wardany, How to Disappear, trans. Jennifer Peterson & Robin Moger
• Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
• Beppe Severgnini, Mamma Mia! Berlusconi’s Italy Explanied for Posterity & Friends Abroad, trans. Giles Watson
• Beppe Severgnini, Off the Rails: A Train Trip Through Life, trans. Anthony Shugaar
  

Exhibits

• Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
• Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
• Neues Museum, Berlin
• Altes Museum, Berlin
• “Heike-Karin Föll: Speed,” KW Institute for Contemporary Art
• “Anna Daučíková,” KW Institute for Contemporary Art
• “Image Bank,” KW Institute for Contemporary Art
• Museum für Naturkunden, Berlin 
• “Biester der Zeit – Lynn Chadwick, Katja Strunz, Hans Uhlmann,” Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
• “Bani Abidi: They Died Laughing,” Gropius-Bau, Berlin
• “Garten der irdischen Freuden,” Gropius-Bau, Berlin
• “Kerker der Phantasie,” Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin
• “Klee und die Abstraktion,” Museum Berggruen
• “Gustave Caillebotte: Maler und Mäzen des Impressionismus,” Alte Nationalgalerie

Films

• Dolor y gloria, directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Books

• Grace Chia, Mother of Questions
• Cyril Wong, The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza
• Andrew Martin, Early Work
• Joshua Ip, Sonnets from the Singlish
• Gina Apostol, Gun Dealers’ Daughter
• W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
• Edmund White, Skinned Alive

Films

• Hellzapoppin’, directed by H. C. Potter

Exhibits

• “Food for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography,” C/O Berlin
• “Elfie Semotan: Contradiction,” C/O Berlin
• Bildergalerie, Sanssouci, Potsdam

Books

• Daryl Lim Wei Jie, A Book of Changes
• Ng Yi-Sheng, Eating Air
• Stefania Heim, Hour Book
• Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
• Darius James, Negrophobia: An Urban Parable
• Jayanti Sen, Looking Beyond: Graphics of Satyajit Ray
• Georges Simenon, Red Lights, translated by Norman Denny
• Claire Tham, The Inlet
• Forrest Gander, Be With
• Georges Simenon, The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, trans. Siân Reynolds
• Georges Simenon, The Mahé Circle, trans. Siân Reynolds
• Georges Simenon, The Blue Room, trans. Linda Coverdale
• Jason Wee, The Monsters Between Us
• Cyril Wong, Satori Blues
• Cyril Wong, The Dictator’s Eyebrow
• Sandra Liu, On Poems On

Films

• Le mystère Koumiko, directed by Chris Marker
• 기생충 (Parasite), dir. Bong Joon-ho
• 万引き家族 (Shoplifters), dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

Books

• L. S. Asekoff, Freedom Hill
• John Gaskin, The Traveller’s Guide to Classical Philosophy
• Cyril Wong, ed., Here and Beyond: 12 Stories
• Irish Murdoch, Nuns and Soldiers
• Raymond Roussel, The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories, translated by Mark Ford
• Lavinia Greenlaw, Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland
• María Gainza, Optic Nerve, trans. Thomas Bunstead
• Catherine Lim, Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore
• Daniel Swift, The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound
• Cyril Wong, The End of His Orbit
• Jennifer Anne Champion, Caterwaul

Films

• Reversal of Fortune, directed by Barbet Schroeder
• The Hitch-Hiker, dir. Ida Lupino
• The Lavender Hill Mob, dir. Charles Crichton
• Private Life, dir. Tamara Jenkins

Books

• Eliot Weinberger, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with more ways)
• Donald Shambroom, Duchamp’s Last Day
• Marcel Proust, Swann in Love, translated by Brian Nelson
• Ross Macdonald, The Archer Files
• Eric Hansen, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
• Clarissa Goenawan, Rainbirds
• Jeff Jackson, Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel
• John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Film

• Peregrinação, directed by João Botelho
• Ladies in Retirement, dir. Charles Vidor
• The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, dir. Alex Gibney
• Gun Crazy, dir. Joseph H. Lewis
• Il primo re (The First King), dir. Matteo Rovere

Exhibits

• “New and Recent Painting by Mit Jai Inn,” H Galley Bangkok
• “Morrison Polkinghorne: 148913: Paths of the Lotus Ink,” Serindia Gallery, Bangkok
• “Home-Sawan Umansap: Shape of Heaven,” Number 1 Gallery, Bangkok
• “The Popula(ra)tion,” RCB Gallery, Bangkok
• “Pioneer in Video Art from Thailand, Slovenia, Norway since 1980,” BACC, Bangkok
• “Early Years Project #4: Praxis Makes Perfect,” BACC, Bangkok
• “Thosaporn Suthum, Rabin Huissen and Robert Stroomberg: Souvenir,” People’s Gallery, BACC, Bangkok
• “Watcharapong Khunart: Mongkhol 108,” People’s Gallery, BACC, Bangkok
• “Norm Yip: Beyond Skin,” RCB Photographer’s Gallery, Bangkok
• “Rafael Martinez: Limbo,” Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok

Books

• Gina Apostol, Insurrecto
• Kirstin Chen, Soy Sauce for Beginners
• Ross Macdonald, The Goodbye Look
• Ross Macdonald, The Underground Man
• Ross Macdonald, Sleeping Beauty
• Ross Macdonald, The Blue Hammer
• David Kidd, Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China

Films

• Rosemary’s Baby, dir. Roman Polanski
• Солярис (Solaris), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia), dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Moontide, dir. Archie Mayo

Books

• J. R. Ackerley, Hindoo Holiday
• Charles Portis, True Grit
• Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Ross Macdonald, The Zebra-Striped Hearse
• Grace Chia, The Wanderlusters
• Goh Poh Seng, If We Dream Too Long
• Ross Macdonald, The Far Side of the Dollar
• Kirstin Chen, Bury What We Cannot Take
• John Lanchester, The Wall
• Andrew Leslie, Oddities in Language
• Philip Jeyaretnam, Raffles Place Ragtime
• Ross Macdonald, Black Money
• Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy

Films

• Elle, directed by Paul Verhoeven
• Theatre of Blood, dir. Douglas Hickox
• Сталкер (Stalker), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 120 battements par minute, dir. Robin Campillo