Books

• Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato
• Charles Portis, The Dog of the South
• Peter Reading, Work in Regress
• Charles Portis, Norwood
• Marc Nair & Nicola Anthony, Intersection
• Emmanuel Carrère, Lives Other Than My Own, translated by Linda Coverdale
• Mary Ruefle, Trances of the Blast
• Fanny Howe, Second Childhood

Films

• Logan Lucky, directed by Steven Soderbergh
• The Phenix City Story, dir. Phil Karlson

Exhibits

• “Between Worlds: Raden Saleh & Juan Luna,” National Gallery, Singapore
• “Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay,” National Gallery

Books

• Eve Babitz, Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night
• Iris Murdoch, The Philosopher’s Pupil

Films

• Targets, directed by Peter Bogdanovich
• Zama, dir. Lucrecia Martel

Exhibits

• “Lee Wen: Mereka Merdeka,” Grey Projects

Books

• Charles Portis, Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
• Hidayah Amin, Bahasa: A Guide to Malay Languages: Banjar, Bawean, Buginese, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Slitar, and Tagalog
• Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others
• Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, London

Books

• Danzy Senna, Caucasia
• Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family
• J. B. Disanayaka, Isurumuni Rock Temple
• Senake Bandaranayake, Sigiriya: City Palace Gardens Monasteries Paintings
• Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
• Percival Everett, Half an Inch of Water: Stories
• Marc Spitz & Brendan Mullen, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
• John Doe & Tom DeSavia, Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
• Danzy Senna, New People
• Paul Theroux, The Consul’s File
• Amélie Nothomb, Life Form, trans. Alison Anderson
• Eileen Myles, Inferno
• Percival Everett, The Body of Martin Aguilera
• Percival Everett, Damned If I Do
• Percival Everett, Big Picture
• Percival Everett, The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair
• Percival Everett, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

Exhibits

• National Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Abhayagiri Museum, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
• Isurumuniya Museum, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
• Sigiriya Museum, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
• Ceylon Tea Museum, Kandy, Sri Lanka
• Sri Dalada Museum, Kandy, Sri Lanka
• Maritime Museum, Galle, Sri Lanka
• Historical Mansion Museum, Galle, Sri Lanka

Books

• Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
• Donald Young et al., A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser
• Ross Macdonald, The Drowning Pool
• Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die
• Percival Everett, Assumption
• Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East
• Anthony Burgess, One Hand Clapping
• Anthony Burgess, The Doctor Is Sick
• Antonia Pozzi, Poems, translated by Peter Robinson
• Marc Spitz & Brendan Mullen, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

Films

• Alien: Covenant, directed by Ridley Scott
• Blade Runner 2049, dir. Denis Villeneuve

Books

• Giorgio Bassani, The Smell of Hay, translated by Jamie McKendrick
• Jenny Diski, Skating to Antarctica
• Muriel Spark, Not to Disturb
• Jenny Diski, Stranger on a Train
• Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket
• Alan Garner, The Owl Service
• Percival Everett, Glyph
• Tomás Saraceno et al., Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Session
• Valerio Magrelli, The Embrace: Selected Poems, trans. Jamie McKendrick
• Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target

Exhibits

• “Guo-Liang Tan: Ghost Screen,” Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
• “Hong Sek Chern: More Space,” Lim Hak Tai Gallery, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
• “Tang Da Wu: Hak Tai’s Bow, Brother’s Pool and Our Children,” Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
• “Siapa nama kamu? Art in Singapore Since the 19th Century,” National Gallery
• “Wu Guanzhong: A Walk through Nature,” National Gallery
• “Strokes of Life: The Art of Chen Chong Swee,” National Gallery
• “Rediscovering Treasures: Ink Art from the Xiu Hai Lou Collection,” National Gallery
• “Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History,” NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
• “Siren Eun Young Jung: Wrong Indexing: Yeoseong Gukgeuk Archive,” NTU CCA Lab
• “That’s Contemporary: Contemporary Art from Marc Chagall to Nowadays,” Partners & Mucciaccia
• “Adeel uz Zafar: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise,” Fost Gallery
• “Antonio Puri,” Sundaram Tagore Singapore
• “Angki Purbandono: If You Give Me Lemon, I’ll Make Lemonade: Tales from Tokyo and Tangkahan,” Mizuma Gallery
• “Aung Ko: Diary from the Dark,” Chan + Hori Contemporary
• “Dusadee Huntrakul: To Dance Is To Be Everywhere,” Chan + Hori Contemporary
• “Fyerool Darma: Monsoon Song,” Yeo Workshop
• “Re/Collecting Asia: Selections from Singapore Private Collections,” Shanghart Singapore
• “From Pop Art to New Media: Shanghart Group Exhibition,” Shanghart Singapore
• “Richard Lewer: Life, Love and Death,” Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore 

Books

• Natalia Ginzburg, Family Sayings, translated by D. M. Low
• Jenny Diski, The Sixties
• Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, I Didn’t Know Mani Was a Conceptualist
• Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
• Bob Mould & Michael Azerrad, See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody
• Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger
• Leonora Carrington, Down Below
• Christian Morgenstern, In the Land of Punctuation, trans. Sirish Rao
• Robert Walser, Thirty Poems, trans. Christopher Middleton

Exhibits

• “Tales of the Malay World: Manuscripts and Early Books,” National Library of Singapore

Books

• Giorgio De Maria, The Twenty Days of Turin, translated by Ramon Glazov
• Christopher Logue, Patrocleia of Homer: A New Version
• Lisbon Poets, trans. Austen Hyde & Martin D’Evelin
• Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A Hallucination, trans. Margaret Jull Costa
• Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place
• Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments
• Jenny Diski, In Gratitude
• Vikram Chandra, Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software

Films

• Okja, directed by Bong Joon-Ho
• Born in China (生在中国), dir. Lu Chuan

Exhibits

• “Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Danh Vo,” National Gallery, Singapore
• “Children’s Biennale 2017,” National Gallery
• “Yayoi Kusama: Life Is the Heart of a Rainbow,” National Gallery
• “Ng Eng Teng: 1+1=1,” NUS Museum
• “ ‘Who Wants To Remember A War?’ War Drawings And Posters From The Ambassador Dato’ N. Parameswaran Collection,” NUS Museum
• “From The Ashes: Reviving Myanmar Celadon Ceramics,” NUS Museum
• “Radio Malaya: Abridged Conversations About Art,” NUS Museum
• “Massimo Giannoni: Panopticon,” Partners & Mucciaccia
• “Phi Phi Oanh: Make Shift,” FOST Gallery
• “Apertures,” Yeo Workshop
• “Masanori Handa: A Palace,” Ota Fine Arts
• “Jason Wee: Labyrinths,” Yavuz Gallery
• “Mark Justiniani: Provoking Space,” Mizuma Gallery

Books

• Paul Fussell, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
• Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
• Morten Strøksnes, Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean, translated by Tiina Nunnally
• Anthony Burgess, Devil of a State
• Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy
• Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean

Exhibits

• “Anna Maria Maiolino,” MOCA, Los Angeles
• “Home—So Different, So Appealing,” LACMA
• “Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971,” LACMA
• “Form in Fragments: Abstraction in German Art, 1906–1925,” LACMA
• “Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky: Painting the Panamanian Cosmos,” LACMA
• “Unexpected Light: Works by Young Il Ahn,” LACMA
• “Ed Fella: Free Work in Due Time,” LACMA
• “Ancient Bodies: Archaeological Perspectives on Mesoamerican Figurines,” LACMA
• Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore
• The Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum, Singapore

Books

• Martin Herbert, Tell Them I Said No
• Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900, translated by Howard Eiland
• Antonio Tabucchi, The Edge of the Horizon, trans. Tim Parks
• Antonio Tabucchi, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro, trans. J. C. Patrick
• Antonio Tabucchi, Letter from Casablanca, trans. Janice M. Thresher
• Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem
• Joanna Walsh, Vertigo
• Eugene Lim, Dear Cyborgs
• Eve Babitz, L.A. Woman
• Antonio Tabucchi, Indian Nocturne, trans. Tim Parks
• Antonio Tabucchi, The Woman of Porto Pim, trans. Tim Parks
• Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters
• Philip Graham, The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon

Exhibits

• Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin
• “Mary Bauermeister: Memento Mary,” Grisebach, Berlin
• Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, Berlin
• “Karel Appel: L’Art est une fête !,” Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
• “Derain, Balthus, Giacometti: Une amitié artistique,” Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
• “Paul Armand Gette: Un Parcours Alicien,” Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
• “Picasso Primitif,” Musée du Quai Branly
• Musée d’Orsay, Paris
• Palácio da Pena, Sintra, Portugal
• Castelo dos Mouros, Sintra, Portugal
• Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal
• “Escultura em Filme. The Very Impress of the Object,” Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
• “Helmut Federle. Matéria Abstrata (Pinturas e Cerâmicas),” Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
• “Emily Wardill. Matt Black and Rat,” Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
• “Portugal em Flagrante – Operação 1, 2 e 3,” Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
• “Ragnar Kjartansson: Guð, hvað mér líður illa,” Hafnarhús, Reykjavík, Iceland