Books

• Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay
• Ronald Firbank, The New Rythum and Other Pieces
• Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction

Films

• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Nichols
• Where the Boys Are, dir. Henry Levin
• The Bad Seed, dir. Mervyn LeRoy

Exhibits

• “Dormitorium: An Exhibition of Film Decors by the Quay Brothers,” The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons

Books

• Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show
• Martin Duberman, Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
• Franz Kafka, Amerika: The Missing Person, trans. Mark Harman

Films

• District 9, directed by Neill Blomkamp

Books

• Paul Auster, City of Glass (adaptation by Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli
• Paper Monument, eds., I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette
• William H. Gass, Finding a Form
• Garth Risk Hallberg, A Field Guide to the North American Family
• Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 3
• Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 4/5

Exhibits

• “Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages,” Met
• “Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective,” Met
• “Michelangelo’s First Painting,” Met
• “Dorothy Iannone,” Anton Kern Gallery
• “Works on View,” Jack Shainman Gallery

Films

• Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, directed by Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer
• Cold Souls, dir. Sophie Barthes
• The Breakfast Club, dir. John Hughes
• Sixteen Candles, dir. John Hughes
• Pretty in Pink, dir. Howard Deutch

Films

• The Public Enemy, directed by William A. Wellman
• Rebel without a Cause, dir. Nicholas Ray
• Vivre sa vie, dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Exhibits

• “Lynda Benglis/Robert Morris: 1973–1974,” Susan Inglett
• “Anthony McCall/Finnbogi Pétursson,” Sean Kelly Gallery
• “The Fantastic Tavern: The Tbilisi Avant-Garde,” Casey Kaplan Gallery
• “The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women,” Cheim & Read
• “Naked!” Paul Kasmin Gallery
• “Ed Sanders: Glyphs,” The Arm
• “The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984,” Metropolitan Museum
• “Chris Bertholf: The Mysterious Landscape,” John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York

Books

• Paul Metcalf, The Assassination
• Paul Metcalf, U.S. Dept. of the Interior
• Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 1
• Kenneth Gangemi, Corroboree

Films

• ¡Que viva México!, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein
• Romance sentimentale, dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein
• Frauennot – Frauenglück (Misery and Fortune of Women), dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov
• Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring), dir. Ingmar Bergman
• In the Loop, dir. Armando Iannucci

Books

• Kenneth Gangemi, The Volcanoes from Puebla
• Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain
• John Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: a Story of Violent Faith

Films

• In a Lonely Place, directed by Nicholas Ray

Books

• Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails
• Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony
• John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In (trans. Ebba Segerberg)
• Paul McDonough & Jane McGriff, editors, Glitch 2

Exhibits

• “Projects 90: Song Dong,” MoMA
• “In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989,” MoMA
• “Larry Rivers: 1950s/1960s,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery
• “Tim Hawkinson,” Pace Wildenstein

Books

• Gabriel Josipovici, Everything Passes
• Roberto Bolaño, Amulet (trans. Chris Andrews)
• Kenneth Gangemi, The Interceptor Pilot
• Jessica Abel, La Perdida
• David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp

Films

• Brüno, directed by Larry Charles
• Tony Manero, dir. Pablo Larrain