june 1–june 15

Books

  • William Carlos Williams, Paterson
  • Leonard Koren, Making Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing
  • W. G. Sebald, Vertigo, trans. Michael Hulse
  • Stan Mir, Song & Glass
  • W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants, trans. Michael Hulse

Films

  • The Bat Whispers, directed by Roland West
  • The Mission, dir. Roland Joffé
  • Dark Victory, dir. Edmund Goulding
  • The Gay Divorcee, dir. Mark Sandrich
  • Prometheus, dir. Ridley Scott
  • Quatermass and the Pit, dir. Roy Ward Baker

Exhibits

  • “An Accumulation of Information Taken from Here to There,” Sperone Westwater
  • “William Wegman: Artists Including Me,” Sperone Westwater
  • “Hannah Whitaker: The Use of Noise,” Thierry Goldberg Gallery
  • “Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language,” MOMA

may 16–may 31

Books

  • Diane Williams, Excitability: Selected Stories 1986–1996
  • Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
  • Tatyana Tolstaya, The Slynx, trans. Jamey Gambrell
  • Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon

Films

  • Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, directed by Matt Wolf
  • Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Céline and Julie Go Boating), dir. Jacques Rivette
  • The People vs. Paul Crump, dir. William Freidkin
  • Thin Blue Line, dir. William Freidkin
  • To Live and Die in L.A., dir. William Freidkin
  • Impressionen unter Wasser, dir. Leni Riefensthal
  • Purple Rain, dir. Albert Magnoli

Exhibits

  • “Italian Futurists: Concepts and Imaginings,” NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò
  • “Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art,” Grey Art Gallery
  • “Soledad Arias: On Air,” RH Gallery
  • “Text in Process,” RH Gallery
  • “Ugly Duckling Presse,” RH Gallery
  • “Domenico Gnoli: Paintings 1964–1969,” Luxembourg & Dayan
  • “Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890–1940,” Jewish Museum
  • “Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris–Vallauris 1943–1953,” Gagosian
  • “Bound: Hans Bellmer & Unica Zürn,” Ubu Gallery
  • “Frank Stella: New Work,” FreedmanArt
  • “Larry Rivers: Later Works,” Tibor de Nagy
  • “Francesca Woodman,” Guggenheim
  • “Tomás Saraceno: Cloud City,” Met
  • “Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo,” Met

the sacred fount, reduced

“Gertrude Stein was a great reader. In novels, Henry James’s for instance, characters talk, and in their nuances lurk the subtlest intricacies of the author’s web. Imagine a text of a novel, say James’s The Sacred Fount (1901), from which everything has been extracted except the dialogue.”

(Guy Davenport, “Late Gertrude,” p. 189 in The Hunter Gracchus)

Following Guy Davenport’s suggestion, here’s a version of Henry James’s The Sacred Fount from which everything has been extracted except the dialogue. A print-on-demand version can be purchased at Lulu; or, download a PDF version for free.

may 1–may 15

Books

  • Buzz Poole, I Like to Keep My Troubles on the Windy Side of Things
  • Jerzy Kosinski, Steps
  • Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
  • Diane Williams, It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature
  • Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life, trans. Johnny Lorenz
  • Clarice Lispector, Água Viva, trans. Stefan Tobler
  • Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H., trans. Idra Novey
  • Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque, trans. Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey

Films

  • Tiny Furniture, dir. Lena Dunham
  • The Fly, dir. David Cronenberg

Exhibits

  • Whitney Biennial
  • “Frank Stella: Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings,” L & M Arts

april 16–april 30

Books

  • Harry Mathews, The Conversions
  • James McCourt, Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake
  • Teju Cole, Open City
  • Eugene Lim, Fog & Car
  • Robert Kelly, Kill the Messenger
  • Robert Walser, The Walk, trans. Christopher Middleton & Susan Bernofsky

Films

  • Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope), directed by Nanni Moretti
  • Ruggles of Red Gap, dir. Leo McCarey
  • The Two Mrs. Carrolls, dir. Peter Godfrey
  • Marguerite de la nuit, dir. Claude Autant-Lara
  • The Sound of My Voice, dir. Zal Batmanglij

Exhibits

  • “Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Met
  • “Naked before the Camera,” Met

april 1–april 15

Books

  • Alan Singer, The Inquisitor’s Tongue
  • Massimo Bontempelli, Separations: Two Novels of Mothers and Children, trans. Estelle Gilson
  • João Fernandes, François Piron, Patrick Besnier & Annie Le Brun, eds., Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel

Films

  • L’amour à mort (Love unto Death), directed by Alain Resnais
  • Melancholia, dir. Lars von Trier
  • Another Earth, dir. Mike Cahill
  • A Dangerous Method, dir. David Cronenberg
  • Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits), dir. Federico Fellini

Exhibits

  • “Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present,” Bitforms
  • “Michelangelo Pistoletto: Lavoro,” Luhring Augustine
  • “Speakers’ Corners,” Eyebeam
  • “Mamiko Otsubo: Idea/Equivalent,” Horton Gallery
  • “John Evans: 1984,” Pavel Zoubok
  • “Guðjón Ketilsson: Extensions of the Head: sculptures & works on paper,” Luise Ross
  • “Iran do Espírito Santo,” Sean Kelly Gallery

march 16–march 31

Books

  • Tommaso Landolfi, Gogol’s Wife & Other Stories, trans. Raymond Rosenthal, John Longrigg & Wayland Young
  • Tommaso Landolfi, Words in Commotion, and Other Stories, trans. Kathrine Jason
  • Tommaso Landolfi, An Autumn Story, trans. Joachim Neugroschel
  • Rachel Levitsky, Under the Sun
  • Harry Thurston, A Ship Portrait
  • Anne Carson, Glass, Irony & God
  • Edmund White, Jack Holmes & His Friend
  • Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
  • Julio Cortázar, A Change of Light, and other stories
  • Alison Knowles, Spoken Text
  • Alison Knowles, Footnotes: collage journal 30 years

Films

  • Meek’s Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt
  • Only Angels Have Wings, dir. Howard Hawks
  • Götter der Pest (Gods of the Plague), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • La vie est un roman (Life Is a Bed of Roses), dir. Alain Resnais
  • On Approval, dir. Clive Brook
  • La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), dir. Pedro Almodóvar

Exhibits

  • “Eugène Atget: Documents pour artistes,” MoMA
  • “Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration,” MoMA
  • “Print/Out,” MoMA
  • “Millennium Magazines,” MoMA
  • “Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
  • “Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” Met
  • “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video,” Met
  • “Natalie Czech: ‘I have nothing to say. Only to show.’ ” Ludlow 38

march 1–march 15

Books

  • Deborah Eisenberg, All Around Atlantis
  • Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
  • Pierre Clastres, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians, trans. Paul Auster
  • Charles Olson, The Distances
  • Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt
  • Joe Brainard, The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, ed. Ron Padgett

Films

  • Play Time, directed by Jacques Tati
  • Minnie and Moskowitz, dir. John Cassavetes
  • Tomatos Another Day, dir. James Sibley Watson
  • Please Vote for Me, dir. Weijun Chen

Exhibits

  • “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition,” Met

february 16–february 29

Books

  • William Burroughs, Naked Lunch
  • Janet Hobhouse, Dancing in the Dark
  • Deborah Eisenberg, Transactions in a Foreign Currency
  • Deborah Eisenberg, Under the 82nd Airborne

Films

  • A Woman under the Influence, directed by John Cassavetes
  • Wings, dir. William Wellman

Exhibits

  • “Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art,” MoMA
  • “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” Met
  • “Jean Debuffet: The Last Two Years,” Pace Gallery
  • “From Iceland,” Luise Ross Gallery
  • “Tom Friedman: New Work,” Luhring Augustine
  • “Charles Burchfield: Landscapes 1916–1962,” D. C. Moore Gallery

february 1–february 15

Books

  • Anna Maria Ortese, A Music behind the Wall: Selected Stories, trans. Henry Martin
  • William Burroughs, Junky
  • Jack Green, Fire the Bastards!
  • Jonathan Williams, A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude

Films

  • Der Golem, Wie er in die Welt Kam (The Golem: How He Came Into the World), dir. Paul Wegener & Carl Boese
  • The Shop around the Corner, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • My Crasy Life, dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin
  • Two Rode Together, dir. John Ford
  • Time Limit, dir. Karl Malden

Exhibits

  • “New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia,” Met