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

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