Books

• Natalia Ginzburg, The City and the House, translated by Dick Davis
• Theodore Sturgeon, The Dreaming Jewels
• Brad Fox, To Remain Nameless
• Fred Vargas, The Chalk Circle Man, trans. Siân Reynolds
• Fred Vargas, The Three Evangelists, trans. Siân Reynolds
• Fred Vargas, Dog Will Have His Day, trans. Siân Reynolds
• Fred Vargas, The Accordianist, trans. Siân Reynolds
• Michael Dibdin, Ratking
• Michael Dibdin, Vendetta

Films

• The Last Man on Earth, directed by Ubaldo Ragona & Sidney Salkow
• Panic in the Streets, dir. Elia Kazan

Books

• J. G. Ballard, High-Rise
• Aleksandar Hemon, My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You
• Jacques Rancière, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, translated by James B. Swenson
• Dante Alighieri, Hell: Dante’s Divine Trilogy Part One Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse, trans. Alasdair Gray
• Primo Levi, Flaw of Form, trans. Jenny McPhee
• Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo, An Ossuary of the North Lagoon, and Other Stories
• Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals
• Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
• Gerald Durrell, The Garden of the Gods
• John Bayley, Elegy for Iris
• Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest, trans. Sarah Booker
• Monique Truong, The Sweetest Fruits
• Primo Levi, The Truce, trans. Stuart Woolf

Films

• Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), directed by Céline Sciamma
• The Souvenir, dir. Joanna Hogg
• Uncut Gems, dir. Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie

Books

• Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
• Charles Portis, Masters of Atlantis
• Charles Portis, Norwood
• Francesco Pacifico, Class
• Amelia Rosselli, Obtuse Diary, translated by Deborah Woodard, Roberta Antognini & Dario De Pasquale
• Primo Levi, Natural Histories, trans. Jenny McPhee
• Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honorable Defeat
• Elias Canetti, Party in the Blitz: The English Years, trans. Michael Hofmann

Books

• Norman Lewis, In Sicily
• Elena Ferrante, Incidental Inventions, translated by Ann Goldstein
• Micheline Aharonian Marcom, A Brief History of Yes
• Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
• Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine & Aviva Kana
• Marguerite Duras, Me & Other Writing, trans. Emma Ramadan & Olivia Baes
• Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Urgency and Patience: Essays, trans. Edward Gauvain
• Norman Lewis, Jackdaw Cake: An Autobiography
• Norman Lewis, I Came, I Saw: An Autobiography
• August Kleinzahler, Cutty, One Rock
• Nina Leger, The Collection, trans. Laura Francis
• Zoë Lescaze, Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past
• Charles Portis, The Dog of the South

Films

• The Witch, directed by Robert Eggers
• The Lighthouse, dir. Robert Eggers

Books

• Jean-Patrick Manchette, Nada, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
• Jean-Philippe Toussaint, The Truth about Marie, trans. Matthew B. Smith
• Jean-Philippe Toussaint, The Bathroom, trans. Nancy Amphoux & Paul De Angelis
• Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex 1, trans. Frank Wynne
• Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Reticence, trans. John Lambert
• Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Naked, trans. Edward Gauvain
• Lucy Ellmann, Mimi
• Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat
• Joseph Roth, What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920–33, trans. Michael Hofmann
• Lucy Ellmann, Dot in the Universe
• Lucy Ellmann, Doctors and Nurses
• Norman Lewis, The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed
• Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You
• Muriel Spark, The Hothouse by the East River
• Giorgio Bassani, The Heron, trans. Jamie McKendrick

Films

• Clifford, directed by Paul Flaherty

Books

• Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
• Albert Cossery, The Jokers, translated by Anna Moschovakis
• Amara Lakhous, The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea, trans. Anthony Shugaar
• Lucy Ellmann, Man or Mango? A Lament
• Muriel Spark, The Public Image
• Albert Cossery, Laziness in the Fertile Valley, trans. William Goyen
• Muriel Spark, The Bachelors
• Muriel Spark, The Ballad of Peckham Rye
• Norman Lewis, Naples ’44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth
• Muriel Spark, The Abbess of Crewe
• Curzio Malaparte, The Skin, trans. David Moore
• Muriel Spark, Robinson
• Andrea Camilleri, Hunting Season, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, The Sect of Angels, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, The Sacco Gang, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Muriel Spark, The Comforters
• Francesca Marciano, The Other Language

Movies

• The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, directed by Ben Berman
• Charlie Says, dir. Mary Harron
• Nocturama, dir. Bertrand Bonello
• La Vérité (The Truth), dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Good Time, dir. Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie
• Hereditary, dir. Ari Aster

Books

• Emmanuel Carrère, A Russian Novel, translated by Linda Coverdale
• Emmanuel Carrère, Limonov, trans. John Lambert
• Samuel R. Delany, Voyage, Orestes!
• Curzio Malaparte, Kaputt, trans. Cesare Foligno
• Robert Musil, Agathe: Or, The Forgotten Sister, trans. Joel Agee
• Amara Lakhous, Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet, trans. Ann Goldstein
• Amara Lakhous, Divorce Islamic Style, trans. Ann Goldstein
• Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, trans. Ann Goldstein
• Lucy Ellmann, Sweet Desserts
• Lucy Ellmann, Varying Degrees of Hopelessness
• Barbara Bourland, Fake Like Me
• Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table
• Jonathan Lethem, Girl in Landscape
• Emmanuel Carrère, The Adversary, trans. Linda Coverdale

Exhibits

• “Hans Haacke: All Connected,” New Museum, New York
• “Carmen Argote: As Above, So Below,” New Museum
• Museum of Modern Art
• “A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate,” Institute for Study of the Ancient World
• Met Museum

Films

• The Limey, directed by Steven Soderbergh
• Uncut Gems, dir. Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie
• Little Women, dir. Greta Gerwig
• Blackkklansman, dir. Spike Lee

Books

• Robert Dobbin, ed., The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian
• Augusto de Angelis, The Murdered Banker, translated by Jill Foulston
• August de Angelis, The Hotel of the Three Roses, trans. Jill Foulston
• Dean Young, Fall Higher
• Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion
• Alice Oswald, Memorial
• Alice Oswald, A Sleepwalk on the Severn
• Alice Oswald, Dart
• Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments
• Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
• Francis Ponge, Nioque of the Early-Spring, trans. Jonathan Larson
• Sigrid Nunez, Sempre Susan
• Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
• Tim Hannigan, Raffles and the British Invasion of Java
• Perumal Murugan, Poonachi, or the Story of a Black Goat, trans. K. Kalyan Raman

Films

• The Secret Life of Plants, directed by Walon Green
• Sign O’ The Times, dir. Prince & Albert Magnoli
• General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait, dir. Barbet Schroeder
• L’Avocat de la terreur (Terror’s Advocate), dir. Barbet Schroeder

Books

• Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
• Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer
• Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police, trans. Stephen Snyder
• Anne Boyer, The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness
• Afrizal Malna, Document Shredding Machine, trans. Daniel Owen
• Julián Herbert, The House of the Pain of Others: Chronicle of a Small Genocide, trans. Christina MacSweeney
• Piero Chiara, The Disappearance of Signora Giulia, trans. Jill Foulston
• James Lever, Me Cheeta
• Gabriele Tergit, Käsebier Takes Berlin, tran. Sophie Duvernoy
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Judge and His Hangman, trans. Joel Agee
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Suspicion, trans. Joel Agee
• Rafael Bernal, The Mongolian Conspiracy, trans. Katherine Silver
• César Aira, Birthday, trans. Chris Andrews

Films

• The Lover, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

Books

• Dean Young, Elegy on Toy Piano
• Iris Origo, The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
• Percival Everett, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
• Chloe Aridjis, Asunder
• Andrea Camilleri, The Revolution of the Moon, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Italo Svevo, A Life, trans. Archibald Colquhoun

Films

• Et Dieu . . . créa la femme (And God Created Woman), dir. Roger Vadim
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch, dir. Joe Dante
• High Life, dir. Claire Denis
• Game Night, dir. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein