july 1–15, 2016

Books

  • Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go
  • Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
  • Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust
  • Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief
  • Svetlana Alexeivich,Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, translated by Keith Gessen
  • Georges Simenon, Chez Krull, trans. Daphne Woodward
  • Henry James, The Sacred Fount
  • Georges Simenon, The Train, trans. Robert Baldick
  • Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World, trans. Lisa Dillman

Films

  • Tarzan The Ape Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke
  • Tarzan and His Mate, dir. Cedric Gibbons

june 16–30, 2016

Books

  • Virgil, Aeneid Book VI, translated by Seamus Heaney
  • Danielle Dutton, Margaret the First
  • Nick Sousanis, Unflattening
  • Danielle Dutton, Sprawl
  • Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose: A Novel, trans. Georgina Kleege
  • John Horne Burns, The Gallery
  • Chris Marker, Coréennes, trans. Brian Holmes
  • Frederik Pohl & Cyril M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants

Films

  • Klute, directed by Alan Pakula
  • Koyaanisqatsi, dir. Godfrey Reggio
  • Attenberg, dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari
  • Get Carter, dir. Mike Hodges
  • L’ère industrielle: Métamorphoses du paysage, dir. Éric Rohmer

Exhibits

  • “Love and Relationship: The 5th White Elephant Art Award Exhibition,” BACC
  • “Thailand Eye,” BACC
  • “Omnivoyeur and Electrical Walks Bangkok Electromagnetic Sound and Visual Project,” BACC
  • “Look Young Art Thesis Exhibition 2015,” BACC
  • “Suwon Chumphene & Panom Changnanok: Mind-Desire,” People’s Gallery, BACC
  • “Thanan Klintapaneeyakul: Simply Nature,” People’s Gallery, BACC
  • “Look: Anais Descarpenterie, Chaiwat Wiansantia, Thanatcha Chairin, Kanjana Chonsiri,” Bridge Art Space

june 1–15, 2016

Books

  • Marguerite Young, Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
  • A. R. Luria, Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations, trans. Martin Lopez-Morillas & Lynn Solotaroff
  • A. R. Luria, The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory, trans. Lynn Solotaroff

Films

  • Joy, directed by David O. Russell

Exhibits

  • “Roman Wall Painting in Pompeii,” Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo
  • “Sho Shou Exhibition,” The National Arts Center, Tokyo
  • “Nihon Jiyūgadan Sumie Exhibition,” The National Arts Center, Tokyo

may 16–31, 2016

Books

  • Ara Wilson, The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City
  • Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was, trans. Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Milton Rockeach, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological Study
  • Eric A. Havelock, The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present

Films

  • Comizi d’amore, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Macbeth, dir. Roman Polanski
  • The Harvey Girls, dir. George Sidney
  • Κυνόδοντας (Dogtooth), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Il gattopardo (The Leopard), dir. Luchino Visconti
  • La notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars), dir. Paolo & Vittorio Taviano

may 1–may 15, 2016

Books

  • Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama

Films

  • The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, directed by Irving Reis
  • Bells are Ringing, dir. Vincente Minnelli
  • Tea and Sympathy, dir. Vincente Minnelli
  • The Lobster, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Under the Cherry Moon, dir. Prince
  • Sun Don’t Shine, dir. Amy Seimetz
  • The Leopard Man, dir. Jacquer Tourneur
  • A Face in the Crowd, dir. Elia Kazan
  • Carol, dir. Todd Haynes

Exhibits

  • “Mit Jai Inn: Wett,” Gallery Ver

april 16–30, 2016

Books

  • John Berger & Jean Mohr, A Fortunate Man: The Life of a Country Doctor
  • Thomas Meyer, Beowulf
  • Henry Green, Loving

Films

  • Imagine the Sound, directed by Ron Mann
  • The Jungle Book, dir. Jon Favreau
  • Knight of Cups, dir. Terrence Malick
  • 1991: The Year Punk Broke, dir. Dave Markey
  • A Foreign Affair, dir. Billy Wilder
  • The Panic in Needle Park, dir. Jerry Schatzberg
  • Comfort & Joy, dir. Bill Forsyth

Exhibits

  • “Lines from Three Lives: Chuan Leekpai, Chakrabhand Posayakrit, Nithi Sthapitanonda,” BACC

april 1–15, 2016

Books

  • China Miéville, Embassytown
  • Idra Novey, Ways to Disappear
  • Georges Simenon, Three Bedrooms in Manhattan, translated by Marc Romano & Lawrence R. Blochman
  • Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor
  • Samuel R. Delany, The Ballad of Beta-2
  • Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat
  • Georges Simenon, Act of Passion, trans. Louise Varèse
  • Roald Dahl, Switch Bitch
  • Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald
  • Samuel R. Delany, They Fly at Çiron

Exhibits

  • Liwan Museum, Guangzhou
  • “Shen Shaomin: There Is No Problem,” Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou
  • “Chinese Printmaking New Scene,” Tap Seac Gallery, Macau

march 16–31, 2016

Books

  • Álvaro Mutis, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, translated by Edith Grossman
  • Georges Simenon, Tropic Moon, trans. Marc Romano
  • Georges Simenon, Dirty Snow, trans. Marc Romano
  • Georges Simenon, Mr. Hire’s Engagement, trans. Daphne Woodward
  • Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
  • Georges Simenon, Monsieur Monde Vanishes, trans. Jean Stewart
  • Georges Simenon, The 13 Culprits, trans. Peter Schulman

Films

  • Dark Passage, dir. Delmer Daves
  • Macao, dir. Josef von Sternberg & Nicholas Ray
  • The Big Knife, dir. Robert Aldrich
  • The Creature from the Black Lagoon, dir. Jack Arnold
  • The Anthem, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, dir. Kelly Makin 
  • The Forbidden Room, dir. Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson
  • The Queen Of Versailles, dir. Lauren Greenfield

march 1–15, 2016

Books

  • Gabriele D’Annunzio, The Child of Pleasure, translated by Georgina Harding
  • Susanne Kircher, A Roman Scandal: The Story of Beatrice Cenci
  • Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years, trans. Philip Ó Ceallaigh

Films

  • What Happened, Miss Simone?, directed by Liz Garbus
  • Hail, Caesar!, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen

february 15–29, 2016

Books

  • John Keene, Annotations
  • William S. Wilson, With Ray: The Art of Friendship
  • Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, translated by Labodalih Sembiring
  • John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  • Ann Beattie, Mrs. Nixon
  • Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen

Films

  • Times Square, directed by Allan Moyle
  • The East, dir. Zal Batmanglij