may 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy
  • David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
  • George Schuyler, Black Empire
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: Writing on Burning Paper, edited by Giovanni Marchini Camia & Annabel Brady-Brown
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, Poet of Ashes, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
  • Natalia Ginzburg, The Road to the City, trans. Frances Frenaye
  • Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart, trans. Frances Frenaye
  • Leonardo Sciascia, Open Doors, trans. Marie Evans
  • Leonardo Sciascia, Death and the Knight, trans. Joseph Farrell
  • Natalia Ginzburg, Valentino and Sagittarius, trans. Avril Bardoni
  • Natalia Ginzburg, Family and Borghesia, trans. Beryl Stockman
  • Leonard Sciascia, A Straightforward Tale, trans. Joseph Farrell
  • Leonardo Sciascia, 1912 + 1, trans. Sacha Rabinovitch
  • Aldous Huxley, Mortal Coils
  • Kirmen Uribe, Bilbao–New York–Bilbao, trans. Elizabeth Macklin

Films

  • Judex, directed by Louis Feuillade
  • Judex, dir. Georges Franju
  • Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die, dir. Philo Bregstein
  • Retour à Séoul (Return to Seoul), dir. Davy Chou
  • Two Weeks in Another Town, dir. Vincente Minnelli
  • Pickup on South Street, dir. Samuel Fuller

april 16–30, 2023

Books

  • Michalis Pichler, Publishing Publishing Manifestos
  • Amr Ezzat, How to Remember Your Dreams, translated by Jennifer Peterson
  • Marius Kociejowski, The Serpent Coiled in Naples
  • Matt Ruff, The Destroyer of Worlds
  • Emilio Fantin, Luigi Negro, Giancarlo Norese, Cesare Pietroiusti & Luigi Presicce, Besides, It’s Always The Others Who Die, trans. Steve Piccolo

Films

  • Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade
  • Tár, dir. Todd Field

Exhibits

  • “Rirkrit Tiravanija: We Don’t Recognise What We Don’t See,” STPI

april 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed
  • Josephine Tey, To Love and Be Wise
  • Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands
  • Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You
  • Donald Shambroom, Duchamp’s Last Day
  • Werner Herzog, The Twilight World, translated by Michael Hofmann
  • Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder
  • Martin Riker, The Guest Lecture
  • Wong May, A Bad Girl’s Book of Animals

Films

  • EO, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski

march 16–31, 2023

Books

  • Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair
  • Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear
  • Josephine Tey, Miss Pym Disposes
  • Josephine Tey, Brat Farrer
  • Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior: Stories
  • Iris Origo, War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943–1944
  • Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers
  • Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
  • Franz Kafka, The Sons, translated by Edwin Muir, Willa Muir, Ernst Kaiser, Eithne Wilkins & Arthur S. Wensinger
  • Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time

Films

  • Salomé, directed by Charles Bryant

Exhibits

  • “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  • “Interiors,” MCA Chicago
  • “Enter the Mirror,” MCA Chicago
  • “Duane Linklater: mymothersside”, MCA Chicago
  • “Pop-Up Books through the Ages,” Newberry Library, Chicago
  • “Surviving the Long Wars: Residues and Rebellions,” Newberry Library
  • “Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color,” Metropolitan Museum, New York
  • “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” Met
  • “Marcus Behmer,” Galerie Buchholz, New York
  • “Barnett Newman,” Craig F. Starr
  • “Miyoko Ito,” Matthew Marks Gallery
  • “Gerhard Richter,” David Zwirner
  • “Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures,” 52 Walker
  • La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi: Dream House
  • “Craft & Conceptual Art: Reshaping the Legacy of Artists’ Books,” Center for Book Arts
  • “Nancy Spero: Woman as Protagonist,” Galerie Lelong
  • “Hermann Nitsch: Selected Paintings, Actions, Relics, and Musical Scores, 1962–2020,” Pace
  • “Kenneth Noland: Stripes/Plaids/Shapes,” Pace
  • “Victor Pasmore: The Final Decades,” Marlborough
  • “Red Grooms: Ninth Street Women Meet the Irascibles,” Marlborough
  • “Nicole Eisenman: Prince,” Print Center New York
  • “Buck Ellison: Little Brother,” Luhring Augustine
  • “Brígida Baltar (1959–2022): To Make the World a Shelter,” Nara Roesler
  • “Tauba Auerbach: Free Will,” Paula Cooper Gallery
  • “Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art,” Met

march 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Men and Wives
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, More Women than Men
  • John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
  • Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue
  • Josephine Tey, A Shilling for Candles
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
  • Saul Bellow, Seize the Day
  • R. B. Russell, Fifty Forgotten Books

Films

  • Hopscotch, directed by Ronald Neame

Exhibits

  • “Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition,” MOMA, New York
  • “Kwame Brathwaite: Things Well Worth Waiting For,” Art Institute of Chicago
  • “Lygia Pape: Tecelares,” Art Institute of Chicago
  • “Deborah Simon: Embroidered Morphologies,” International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago

february 15–28, 2023

Books

  • Eileen Myles, Chelsea Girls
  • Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language, translated by Sam Taylor
  • Eileen Myles, For Now
  • P. Djèlí Clark, The Haunting of Tram Car 015
  • P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn
  • Sandi Tan, The Black Isle
  • Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

Films

  • Tih-Minh, directed by Louis Feuillade
  • L’Argent, dir. Robert Bresson

Exhibits

  • “The Grand Italian Vision: The Farnesina Collection,” Embassy of Italy in Singapore/The Arts House

february 1–14, 2023

Books

  • Lucy Ives, Life Is Everywhere
  • Weng Pixin, Let’s Not Talk Anymore
  • Yoko Tawada, Three Streets, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
  • Olivia Laing, Crudo
  • Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business
  • Euginia Tan, Phedra

Films

  • Zoo, directed by Robinson Devor
  • The Bowery—Spring, 1994, dir. Sara Driver
  • Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Celine and Julie Go Boating), dir. Jacques Rivette

january 16–31, 2023

Books

  • Patrick Modiano, Paris Nocturne, translated by Phoebe Weston-Evans
  • Patrick Modiano, Out of the Dark, trans. Jordan Stump
  • Marcel Proust, Letters to the Lady Upstairs, trans. Lydia Davis
  • Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth, trans. Chris Clarke
  • Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink, trans. Mark Polizzotti
  • Erni Salleh, The Java Enigma
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Brothers and Sisters
  • R. C. Sherriff, The Hopkins Manuscript
  • Fredric Jameson, Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality

Films

  • Seance on a Wet Afternoon, directed by Bryan Forbes
  • Lancelot du Lac, dir. Robert Bresson
  • Aftersun, dir. Charlotte Wells
  • Le Diable, probablement (The Devil Probably), dir. Robert Bresson
  • Irma Vep, dir. Olivier Assayas
  • Le notti bianche, dir. Luchino Visconti

january 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Brad Fox, The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths
  • Aelian, On the Nature of Animals, translated by Gregory McNamee
  • César Aira, The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, trans. Katherine Silver
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Dolores
  • Patrick Modiano, Young Once, trans. Damion Searls
  • Patrick Modiano, Sundays in August, trans. Damion Searls
  • Patrick Modiano, After the Circus, trans. Mark Polizzotti
  • Shubigi Rao, Written in the Margins
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pastors and Masters
  • Patrick Modiano, Family Record, trans. Mark Polizzotti
  • Peter C. Baker, Planes
  • Patrick Modiano, Such Fine Boys, trans. Mark Polizzotti
  • Patrick Modiano, Catherine Certitude, trans. William Rodarmor

Films

  • Quatre nuits d’un rêveur (Four Nights of a Dreamer), directed by Robert Bresson
  • Talking Leaves, dir. Shubigi Rao
  • Avatar: The Way of Water, dir. James Cameron
  • Untitled 1981, Bob Singing, The Scissor That Had Found Its Own Pair, Untitled 1985, Karin in Montauk, xxxx_Santa Monica, dir. Rirkrit Tiravanija
  • Glass Onion, dir. Rian Johnson
  • Au poste ! (Keep an Eye Out), dir. Quentin Dupieux
  • Babylon, dir. Damien Chazelle
  • Expedition Content, dir. Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati

Exhibits

  • Singapore Biennale 2022
  • Art SG

december 16–31, 2022

Books

  • Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearls
  • Geoff Dyer, ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: On Where Eagles Dare
  • Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic, translated by David Boyd
  • Bob Ostertag, Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century
  • Ross Feld, Guston in Time
  • Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
  • Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
  • William Melvin Kelly, A Different Drummer
  • Tété-Michel Kpomassie, An African in Greenland, trans. James Kirkup
  • Curzio Malaparte, The Kremlin Ball, trans. Jenny McPhee

Films

  • Incroyable mais vrai (Incredible but True), directed by Quentin Dupieux