Books

• Fanny Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
• Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz, trans. Eugene Jolas
• Alberto Moravia, Journey to Rome, trans. Tim Parks
• Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies

Films

• Entre les murs (The Class), directed by Laurent Cantet
• Berlin Alexanderplatz, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, parts IX & X

Exhibits

• “Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens”, Onassis Cultural Center
• “The Artist As Troublemaker”, Austrian Cultural Forum
• “Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective”, MoMA
• “Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh”, MoMA
• “Franz West: Works from the 1990s”, Zwirner & Wirth
• “Andy Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection”, Gagosian Gallery

Books

• Leanne Shapton, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
• Adalbert Stifter, Rock Crystal, trans. Elizabeth Mayer & Marianne Moore
• Richard Sennett, The Craftsman

Exhibits

• “Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum,” Frick Collection
• “Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors,” Metropolitan Museum
• “Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500,” Metropolitan Museum
• “Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard,” Metropolitan Museum
• “Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905-1913,” Neue Galerie

Films

• Berlin Alexanderplatz, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, parts VI, VII & VIII
• Now, Voyager, dir. Irving Rapper

Books

• Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
• Paul Muldoon, Madoc: A Mystery

Films

• Le Plaisir, directed by Max Ophuls
• Berlin Alexanderplatz, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, parts III, IV & V

Books

• John Ashbery, Rivers and Mountains
• Hannah B. Higgins, The Grid Book

Exhibits

• “Stanley William Hayter in America: Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1940–1950”, Francis M. Nauman Fine Arts
• Michaela Melián, 38 Ludlow

Films

• Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), directed by Tomas Alfredson
• The Third Generation (Die dritte Generation), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Boom, dir. Joseph Losey

Books

• James McCourt, Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey
• Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
• Eric Kraft, Flying Home
• Brian Evenson, Last Days

Films

• Gomorra, directed by Matteo Garrone

Books

• Dash Shaw, Bottomless Bellybutton
• Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O—, trans. Richard Stokes
• Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
• Marcel Proust, The Lemoine Affair, trans. Charlotte Mandell

Books

• Simon Critchley, The Book of Dead Philosophers
• Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference: lexicography, learning and language from the clay tablet to the computer

Films

• The Wrestler, directed by Darren Aronofsky
• Medicine for Melancholy, dir. Barry Jenkins

Books

• Pierre Reverdy, Selected Poems (trans. Mary Ann Caws, Patricia Terry & John Ashbery)
• Sven Birkerts, An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature

Films

• The Toe Tactic, directed by Emily Hubley
• Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, dir. Tim Burton

Exhibits

• The Printed Picture, MoMA
• Focus: Jasper Johns, MoMA

Books

• John Crowley, Novelties & Souvenirs
• Aram Saroyan, Complete Minimal Poems
• John Ashbery, Three Poems

Movies

• Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Hector Babenco
• Desk Set, dir. Walter Lang

Books

• bpNichol, The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol reader, ed. Darren Wershler-Henry & Lori Emerson
• Chrisopher Middleton, Torse 3: poems 1949–1961
• Clark Coolidge, Odes of Roba

Exhibits

• Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, Metropolitan Museum
• Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna, Metropolitan Museum