Books

• George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
• Thomas Disch, Camp Concentration
• George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Scent of India, trans. David Clive Price
• Alex. McClenaghan, Six Years in Heaven: A True Story of Human Credulity and Unexampled Devotion, Embracing a Complete Expose Of the Abominable Practices and Monstrous Professions of George Jacob Schweinfurth, the False Christ, Whose Main Heaven Is Near Rockford, Illinois, with a Biographical Sketch of This Most Remarkable Religious Pretender of the Century
• Ken Kalfus, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country

Films

• Blue in the Face, directed by Wayne Wang
• A King in New York, dir. Charles Chaplin
• Thelma & Louise, dir. Ridley Scott

Exhibits

• “Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913–1915,” LACMA
• “Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky,” LACMA
• “John Altoon,” LACMA
• “James Turrell: Ganzfeld,” LACMA
• “Sam Durant: Proposal for White and Indian Dead Monument Transpositions, Washington, D.C.,” LACMA

Books

• Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance
• George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
• Lucy R. Lippard, Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
• Michel de Montaigne, Essays, trans. J. M. Cohen
• Ronald Johnson, Ark
• Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

Films

• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, directed by Charles Barton

Books

• Josef Albers, Interaction of Color
• Paul M. Handley, The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej

Films

• 紅の豚 (Porco Rosso), directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Microcosmos: Le peuple de l’herbe, dir. Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou
• Stories We Tell, dir. Sarah Polley
• The Red Shoes, dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• God’s Country, dir. Louis Malle
• 風立ちぬ (The Wind Rises), dir. Hayao Miyazaki
• The African Queen, dir. John Huston
• Los Angeles Plays Itself, dir. Thom Anderson

Exhibits

• National Museum of Korea, Seoul
• National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul
• “Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
• “Jesper Just: This Is a Landscape of Desire,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
• “Do Ho Suh: Home within Home within Home within Home within Home,” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Books

• Pagan Kennedy, Zine
• Pitigrilli, Cocaine, translated by Eric Mosbacher
• James Browning, The Fracking King

Films

• I Am Divine, directed by Jeffrey Schwarz
• Whores’ Glory, dir. Michael Glawogger

Exhibits

• “Foster + Partners: The Art of Architecture,” BACC

Books

• Emmett Williams, ed., An Anthology of Concrete Poetry
• Geoff Dyer, The Missing of the Somme
• Thomas Girst, The Duchamp Dictionary

Films

• La grande bellezza, directed by Paolo Sorrentino
• Ikárie XB-1, dir. Jindrich Polák
• Das Schloss, dir. Michael Haneke
• Postava k podpírání (Joseph Kilían), dir. Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt
• Wer war Kafka?, dir. Richard Dindo

Books

• Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man
• Eleanor Antin, Conversations with Stalin
• Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
• Geoff Dyer, Zona: A Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room
• David Grubbs, Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording

Films

• Jodorowsky’s Dune, dir. Frank Pavich
• La Cravate, dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Veronica Mars, dir. Rob Thomas

Books

• Clamenç Llansana, Goliard Songs, trans. Kit Schluter
• Michel Faber, Under the Skin
• Patti Smith, Just Kids

Films

• The Lunchbox, directed by Ritesh Batra
• My Dog Tulip, dir. Paul Fierlinger
• Manhattan Melodrama, dir. W. S. Van Dyke
• The Great Moment, dir. Preston Sturges

Books

• Amit Chaudhuri, Calcutta
• Rayne Kruger, The Devil’s Discus: An Enquiry into the Death of Ananda, King of Siam
• Satyajit Ray, One Dozen Stories, translated by Satyajit Ray & Gopa Majumdar
• Satyajit Ray, The Diary of a Space Traveller and Other Stories, trans. Satyajit Ray & Gopa Majumdar
• Amitav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chromosome
• Robert Walser, Berlin Stories, trans. Susan Bernofsky
• Upamanyu Chatterjee, The Mammaries of the Welfare State
• Robert Walser, A Schoolboy’s Diary and Other Stories, trans. Damion Searls

Films

• Inside Llewyn Davis, directed by Ethan & Joel Coen
• Calcutta, dir. Louis Malle
• Under the Skin, dir. Jonathan Glazer
• 崖の上のポニョ (Ponyo), dir. Hayao Miyazaki
• Manhattan Melodrama, dir. W. S. Van Dyke

Exhibits

• “Bangkok, Anytime: Paintings on Glass by Dani Monfort Gil,” Serindia Gallery
• “Burma: The Quiet Violence. Political Paintings by Myint Swe, 1995–2005,” Thavibu Gallery

Books

• James McCourt, Lasting City: The Anatomy of Nostalgia
• Rirkrit Tiravanija, Cook Book: Just Smile and Don’t Talk
• Geoffrey Moorhouse, Calcutta
• Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

Films

• Destination Moon, directed by Irving Pichel
• Zardoz, dir. John Boorman
• となりのトトロ (My Neighbor Totoro), dir. Hayao Miyazaki
• Dallas Buyers Club, dir. Jean-Marc Vallée

Exhibits

• Indian Museum, Kolkata
• “Unravelling a Modern Master: The Art of Lali Mohan Sen (1898–1954),” Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
• Rabindranath Tagore House, Kolkata
• Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
• Marble Palace, Kolkata
• Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling

Books

• Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence

Films

• Enemies of the People, directed by Rob Lemkin & Thet Sambath
• Mud, dir. Jeff Nichols
• The Blue Dahlia, dir. George Marshall
• Capturing the Friedmans, dir. Andrew Jarecki
• L’image manquante (The Missing Picture), dir. Rithy Panh
• Breaking Away, dir. Peter Yates
• La Bella del Alhambra, dir. Enrique Pineda Barnet

Exhibits

• Kamthieng House Museum, Siam Society