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

Books

• Erich Auerbach, Dante: Poet of the Secular World, translated by Ralph Manheim
• Tim Parks, Medici Money: Banking Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
• Andrea Camilleri, The Pyramid of Mud, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, The Overnight Kidnapper, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• August Kleinzahler, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
• August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
• Andrea Camilleri, The Other End of the Line, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Victor Segalen, René Leys, trans. J. A. Underwood
• Yuko Tsushima, Territory of Light, trans. Geraldine Harcourt
• Julián Herbert, Tomb Song, trans. Christina MacSweeney
• Primo Levi, The Magic Paint, trans. Ann Goldstein, Alessandra Batagli & Jenny McPhee
• Charles Portis, Gringos
• Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

Films

• 하녀 (The Housemaid), directed by Kim Ki-young
• 1987: Untracing the Conspiracy, dir. Jason Soo
• The River, dir. Jean Renoir
• Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso (Canoa: A Shameful Memory), dir. Felipe Cazals
• The Lair of the White Worm, dir. Ken Russell
• Les Créatures, dir. Agnes Varda
• Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
• Hable con ella (Talk to Her), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
• Dolor y gloria (Pain and Glory), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
• Die Mauer (The Wall), dir. Jürgen Böttcher

Books

• Satyajit Ray, The Collected Short Stories, translated by Gopa Majumdar et al.
• Andrea Camilleri, Game of Mirrors, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True
• Pietro Aretino, The Secret Life of Wives, trans. Andrew Brown
• Giovanni della Casa, Galateo, or the Rules of Polite Behavior, trans. M. F. Rusnak
• Andrea Camilleri, A Beam of Light, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Marie Darrieussecq, Pig Tales, trans. Linda Coverdale
• Victor Segalen, Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity, trans. Yaël Rachel Schlick
• Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties
• Andrea Camilleri, A Voice in the Night, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, A Nest of Vipers, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Marie Darrieussecq, My Phantom Husband, trans. Helen Stevenson

Films

• Ad Astra, directed by James Gray
• High Flying Bird, dir. Steven Soderbergh
• 마더 (Mother), dir. Bong Joon-ho
• Vom Bauen der Zukunft – 100 Jahre Bauhaus (Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus), dir. Niels Bolbrinker & Thomas Tielsch

Books

• Andrea Camilleri, The Potter’s Field, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, The Age of Doubt, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Yiyun Lee, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
• Andrea Camilleri, Montalbano’s First Case, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
• Evan S. Connell, A Long Desire
• Perumal Murugan, One Part Woman, trans. Aniruddhan Vasudevan
• Sven Lindqvist, The Skull Measurer’s Mistake, trans. Joan Tate
• Andrea Camilleri, The Dance of the Seagull, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri, Treasure Hunt, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
• Andrea Camilleri, Angelica’s Smile, trans. Stephen Sartarelli
• Sven Lindqvist, The Myth of Wu Tao-Tzu, trans. Joan Tate
• Eliot Weinberger, The Ghosts of Birds: Essays
• L. S. Asekoff, North Star
• Anne Boyer, Garments Against Women
• Giovanni della Casa, Galateo, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin
• Giovanni Boccaccio, Life of Dante, trans. J. G. Nichols
• Ugo Foscolo, Sepulchres, trans. J. G. Nichols

Films

• The Lost City of Z, directed by James Gray
• Midsommar, dir. Ari Aster
• Serial Mom, dir. John Waters

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