june 16–30, 2013

Books

  • Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances
  • Norman Rush, Whites
  • Giorgio Vasta, Time on My Hands, translated by Jonathan Hunt
  • Joseph McElroy, Cannonball
  • Dana Ward, The Squeaquel
  • Pamela Moore, Chocolates for Breakfast

Films

  • Avalon, directed by Mamoru Oshii
  • Half-Baked, dir. Tamra Davis
  • Despair, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Zodiac, dir. David Fincher
  • Broadcast News, dir. James L. Brooks
  • Le mystère Picasso, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot

Exhibits

  • “Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich,” Met
  • “The Boxer: An Ancient Masterpiece,” Met
  • “The Civil War and American Art,” Met
  • “Velázquez’s Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este: A Masterpiece from the Galleria Estense, Modena,” Met
  • “At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston,” Met
  • “Land Marks,” Met
  • “Objects from the Kharga Oasis,” Met
  • “Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection,” Met
  • “Paul Thek and his Circle in the 1950s,” Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay And Lesbian Art

june 1–15, 2013

Books

  • John Crowley, Four Freedoms
  • John Crowley, The Deep
  • John Crowley, Beasts
  • John Crowley, Engine Summer
  • Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
  • Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
  • Stanley Crawford, Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
  • Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

Films

  • Manhattan, directed by Woodie Allen
  • Sleeping Beauty, dir. Julia Leigh

Exhibits

  • “Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective,” Whitney
  • “Paul Delvaux,” Blain/Di Donna
  • “Paul Klee: Early and Late Years, 1894–1940,” Moeller Fine Art
  • “Susan Weil: Time’s Pace,” Sundaram Tagore Gallery
  • “Carolee Schneemann: Flange 6rpm,” PPOW
  • “Richard Serra: Early Work,” David Zwirner
  • “Ana Mendieta: Late Works: 1981-85,” Galerie Lelong

may 1–15, 2013

Books

  • Charles Portis, Masters of Atlantis
  • Jean Cocteau, Thomas the Impostor, trans. Lewis Galentiere
  • Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
  • Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen
  • Samuel R. Delany, The Mad Man
  • Samuel R. Delany, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

Exhibits

  • “Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship,” Americas Society
  • “Maya Lin: Here and There,” Pace Gallery
  • “Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978,” Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College
  • “Body Double: Jasper Johns / Bruce Nauman,” Craig F. Starr Gallery

Films

  • Captain Blood, directed by Michael Curtiz

april 16–30, 2013

Books

  • Aldous Huxley, Island
  • Nanni Ballestrini, The Unseen, trans. Liz Heron
  • Edward Lucie-Smith, ed., Holding Your Eight Hands: An Anthology of Science Fiction Verse
  • Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba
  • Caroline Bergvall, Meddle English
  • Florent Ruppert & Jérôme Mulot, Barrel of Monkeys, trans. Peter Birkemoe
  • Cyrus Highsmith, Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals

Films

  • Убийцы (The Killers), directed by Andrey Tarkovsky

Exhibits

  • “The Brother In Elysium: Artwork and Publications by Jon Beacham, 2008–2013,” Boo-Hooray
  • “B. Wurtz and Triple Canopy: History Works,” Bureau

april 1–15, 2013

Books

  • Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm
  • Thomas Pletzinger, Funeral for a Dog, trans. Ross Benjamin
  • B. S. Johnson, See the Old Lady Decently
  • Dion Fortune, Psychic Self-Defense
  • Charles Portis, Gringos
  • Honoré de Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece & Gambara, trans. Richard Howard
  • Jack London, Martin Eden
  • Avram Davidson, The Investigations of Avram Davidson

Films

  • Spellbound, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Exhibits

  • “Photography and the American Civil War,” Met

march 16–31, 2013

Books

  • Franklin Bruno, The Accordian Repertoire
  • Stanley Elkin, Early Elkin
  • H. G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • Charles Portis, True Grit
  • Charles Newman, New Axis
  • Charles Newman, White Jazz
  • Tom Whalen, Winter Coat
  • Tom Whalen, Elongated Figures
  • Calvin Tomkins, Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews
  • Georges Perec, La Boutique obscure: 124 Dreams, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
  • Georges Perec, The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, trans. David Bellos
  • Cordwainer Smith, You Will Never Be the Same
  • J. G. Ballard, The Day of Forever
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares & Silvina Ocampo, Where There’s Love, There’s Hate, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine & Jessica Ernst Powell
  • Karen Green, Bough Down

Films

  • Spring Breakers, directed by Harmony Korine
  • Games, dir. Curtis Harrington

Exhibits

  • “The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark,” Frick
  • “Piero della Francesca in America,” Frick
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • “Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage,” Francis M. Naumann Fine Art

march 1–15, 2013

Books

  • Jack London, The Iron Heel
  • James Tiptree, Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
  • Charles Fourier, The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy, trans. Geoffrey Longnecker
  • René Daumal, Pataphysical Essays, trans. Thomas Vosteen
  • Ursule Molinaro, Positions with White Roses
  • Joanna Ruocco, The Mothering Coven
  • Jenny Davidson, The Magic Circle
  • Shawn Vestal, Godforsaken Idaho

Films

  • 56 Up, directed by Michael Apted

february 15–28, 2013

Books

  • Gertrude Stein, from The Making of Americans, edited by D. Sorensen
  • William Gerhardie, The Polyglots
  • Avram Davidson & Ward Moore, Joyleg
  • William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
  • Charles Portis, Norwood
  • Ellery Queen (Avram Davidson), And on the Eighth Day
  • Ellery Queen (Avram Davidson), The Fourth Side of the Triangle
  • Peter Hook, Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
  • Carl Van Vechten, The Tattooed Countess

Films

  • White Zombie, directed by Victor Halperin
  • Ring of Bright Water, dir. Jack Couffer

Exhibits

  • “Dieter Roth. Björn Roth,” Hauser & Wirth
  • “Suzanne Treister: Hexen 2.0,” PPOW
  • “Giorgio Griffa: Fragments 1968–2012,” Casey Kaplan
  • “Alighiero Boetti: La forza del centro,”, Gladstone Gallery
  • “Nancy Spero: From Victimage to Liberation: Works from the 1980s & 1990s,” Galerie Lelong
  • “Tam Van Tran: Leaves of Ore,” Ameringer McEnery Yohe

february 1–14, 2013

Books

  • Pamela Zoline, The Heat Death of the Universe
  • Tom Whalen, The President in Her Towers
  • Nicholson Baker, Vox
  • Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
  • Richard Stark, The Jugger

Films

  • Contagion, directed by Steven Soderbergh
  • Miller’s Crossing, dir. Joel Coen
  • Ocean’s Twelve, dir. Steven Soderbergh
  • Quai des Orfèvres, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Twentieth Century, dir. Howard Hawks
  • Brick, dir. Rian Johnson

Exhibits

  • “Anything Can Substitute Art: Maciunas in Soho,” Cooper Gallery
  • “Diaries: An Anthology of Photography from Italy,” Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art
  • “Rooms of Wonder: From Wunderkammer to Museum, 1599–1899,” Grolier Club
  • “Sleeping Eros,” Met
  • “The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785–1850,” Met
  • “Birds in the Art of Japan,” Met

january 16–31, 2013

Books

  • Millicent Dillon, A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
  • Weldon Kees, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees
  • Balthus & Alain Vircondelet, Vanished Splendors, trans. Benjamin Ivry
  • William Goyen, Arcadio
  • Eleanor Clark, Rome and a Villa
  • G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
  • Nicholson Baker, Room Temperature
  • Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine
  • Ursule Molinaro, Green Lights Are Blue
  • Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
  • James Broughton, High Kukus
  • Benjamin Anastas, The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance

Films

  • Martha Marcy May Marlene, directed by Sean Durkin
  • A Countess from Hong Kong, dir. Charles Chaplin
  • The Stone Tape, dir. Peter Sasdy