Books
- Romain Gary, The Dance of Genghis Cohn, translated by Camilla Sykes
- Fanny Howe, The Needle’s Eye: Passing Through Youth
- César Aira, On Contemporary Art, trans. Katherine Silver
- Józef Czapski, Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp, trans. Eric Karpeles
- Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Films
- The Razor’s Edge, directed by John Byrum
Books
- Evelyn Juers, House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
- Renee Gladman, Calamaties
- Tommy Orange, There There
- Hermann Hesse, Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey, translated by Sherab Chodzin Kohn
- Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction, trans. Natasha Wimmer
- Patrick Modiano, So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood, trans. Euan Cameron
- Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander
- Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell
- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Television, trans. Jordan Stump
- Michèle Audin, One Hundred Twenty-One Days, trans. Christiana Hills
- The Homeric Hymns, trans. Diane J. Rayor
- Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing
Films
- Eva Hesse, directed by Marcie Begleiter
- 幻土 (A Land Imagined), dir. Yeo Siew Hua
- In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Faraway, So Close!), dir. Wim Wenders
Books
- Tim Parks, Europa
- John Darnielle, Master of Reality
- Anthony Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time
- Mike McGonigal, Loveless
- Michael Allen Zell, City Krystal Soulman
- Remedios Varo, Letters, Dreams & Other Writings, translated by Margaret Carson
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
- Antonio Tabucchi, The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico, trans. Tim Parks
- Nora Krug, Heimat: A German Family Album
Films
- Passport to Pimlico, directed by Henry Cornelius
- 밀양 (Secret Sunshine), dir. Lee Chang-dong
Books
- Ricardo Piglia, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years, translated by Robert Croll
- Paul Blackburn & Julio Cortázar, “Querido Pablito”/”Julissimo Querido”: Selected Correspondence 1958–1971
- Lugwig Hohl, Ascent, trans. Donna Stonecipher
- Luigi Pirandello, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand, trans. William Weaver
- Patrick Modiano, The Search Warrant, trans. Joanna Kilmartin
- Joshua Cohen, Moving Kings
- Patrick Modiano, Honeymoon, trans. Barbara Wright
- Roberto Bolaño, The Insufferable Gaucho, trans. Chris Andrews
- Geeta Dayal, Another Green World
- Patrick Modiano, Villa Triste, trans. John Cullen
- Raymond Queneau, Hitting the Streets, trans. Rachel Galvin
- Carl Wilson, Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- David Stuart MacLean, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Tale of Amnesia
Films
- One More Time with Feeling, directed by Andrew Dominik
- Tiger Bay, dir. J. Lee Thompson
- Support the Girls, dir. Andrew Bujalski
- Popeye, dir. Robert Altman
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
- Harvey, dir. Henry Koster
Books
- Patrick Modiano, Sleep of Memory, translated by Mark Polizzotti
- Wallace Stevens, Harmonium
- Othman Wok, Malayan Horror: Macabre Tales of Singapore and Malaysia in the 50’s, trans. Tuminah Sapawi & M. M. Basalamah
- Wallace Stevens, Ideas of Order
- Patrick Modiano, The Black Notebook, trans. Mark Polizzotti
- Patrick Modiano, The Night Watch, trans. Patricia Wolf & Frank Wynne
- Gabriel García Márquez, Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín, trans. Asa Zatz
- Charles Willeford, Pick-up
- Patrick Modiano, Ring Roads, tras. Caroline Hillier & Frank Wynne
- James Fenton, Selected Poems
- Patrick Modiano, Missing Person, trans. Daniel Weissbort
- Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country
- Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
- José Saramago, Small Memories, trans. Margaret Jull Costa
- Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
- Wallace Stevens, The Man with the Blue Guitar
- Wallace Stevens, Parts of a World
- Wallace Stevens, Transport to Summer
- Patrick Modiano, Pedigree, trans. Mark Polizzotti
- Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
Films
- Roma, directed by Alfonso Cuarón
- Brainstorm, dir. Douglas Trumbull
Exhibits
- “Jef Geys: Quadra Medicinale Singapore,” NTU CCA
- “Izat Arif: Semangat Kejiranan / everybody loves good neighbours,” NTU CCA
- “Buddhist Archive of Photography/Amy Lien/Enzo Camacho: And in the Chapel and in the Temples,” NTU CCA
- “Michelangelo Pistoletto: The Third Paradise – Between Observe and Reverse,” Partners + Mucciaccia
- “Women’s Work: Contemporary Art from Asia and the Middle East,” Sundaram Tagore
- “Hopes & Dialogues in Rumah Kijang,” Mizuma Gallery
- “Cheng Ran: The Lament: Mountain Ghost,” Ota Fine Arts
- “Boedi Widjaja: Rivers and Lakes / Tanah dan Air,” Shanghart Gallery
- “Frictional: Ben Loong & Zulkifli Lee,” Pearl Lam Galleries
Books
- Francis M. Naumann, Mentors: The Making of an Art Historian
- Gabriel García Márquez, News of a Kidnapping, translated by Edith Grossman
- Michael D. Gordin, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
- Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key
- Patrick Modiano, La Place de l’Étoile, trans. Caroline Hillier
- Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream, trans. Megan McDowell
- Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties
- Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
- Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
- Cyril Wong, After You
- Cyril Wong, Oneiros
- Herman Melville, Typee
- Ross Macdonald, The Galton Case
- Jason Wee, An Epic of Durable Departures
- Ross Macdonald, The Ferguson Affair
- Ross Macdonald, Blue City
Movies
- Silent Running, directed by Douglas Trumbull
Books
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
- Javier Cercas, The Impostor: A True Story, translated by Frank Wynne
- Robert Sheckley, Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley
- Gabriel García Márquez, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, trans. Randolph Hogan
- Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, trans. Edith Grossman
- Thorkild Hansen, Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761–1767, trans. James McFarlane & Kathleen McFarlane
- Julie J. Thomson, ed., That Was the Answer: Interviews with Ray Johnson
- Tiziano Terzani, A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
- Iris Murdoch, A Word Child
Films
- Shirkers, directed by Sandi Tan
Books
- Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
- Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
- Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus, translated by Klara Glowczewska
- Domenico Starnone, Trick, trans. Jhumpa Lahiri
- Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus
- Claudia Rankine, The End of the Alphabet
- Nigel Barley, Island of Demons
- Malcolm X & Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Films
- Doubles vies (Non-Fiction), directed by Olivier Assayas
- Nuestro tiempo (Our Time), dir. Carlos Reygadas
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Books
- Filippo-Tommaso Marinetti, Mafarka the Futurist, translated by Carol Diethe & Steve Cox
- Domenico Starnone, Ties, trans. Jhumpa Lahiri
- Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues, trans. Dick Davis
- Dag Solstad, Professor Anderson’s Night, trans. Agnes Scott Langeland
- Amir D. Aczel, The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
- R. O. Kwon, The Incendiaries
Films
- Sorry to Bother You, directed by Boots Riley
- The Hudsucker Proxy, dir. Joel Coen
- The Big Lebowski, dir. Joel Coen
- Le Livre d’image (The Image Book), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Books
- Shirley Hazzard, The Bay of Noon
- Helen DeWitt, Some Trick
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, translated by William Weaver
- Cesare Pavese, The Leather Jacket, trans. Alma Murch
- Jan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
- Pascal Quignard, A Terrace in Rome, trans. Douglas Penick & Charles Ré