march 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Men and Wives
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, More Women than Men
  • John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud
  • Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue
  • Josephine Tey, A Shilling for Candles
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
  • Saul Bellow, Seize the Day
  • R. B. Russell, Fifty Forgotten Books

Films

  • Hopscotch, directed by Ronald Neame

Exhibits

  • “Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition,” MOMA, New York
  • “Kwame Brathwaite: Things Well Worth Waiting For,” Art Institute of Chicago
  • “Lygia Pape: Tecelares,” Art Institute of Chicago
  • “Deborah Simon: Embroidered Morphologies,” International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago

february 15–28, 2023

Books

  • Eileen Myles, Chelsea Girls
  • Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language, translated by Sam Taylor
  • Eileen Myles, For Now
  • P. Djèlí Clark, The Haunting of Tram Car 015
  • P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn
  • Sandi Tan, The Black Isle
  • Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

Films

  • Tih-Minh, directed by Louis Feuillade
  • L’Argent, dir. Robert Bresson

Exhibits

  • “The Grand Italian Vision: The Farnesina Collection,” Embassy of Italy in Singapore/The Arts House

february 1–14, 2023

Books

  • Lucy Ives, Life Is Everywhere
  • Weng Pixin, Let’s Not Talk Anymore
  • Yoko Tawada, Three Streets, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
  • Olivia Laing, Crudo
  • Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business
  • Euginia Tan, Phedra

Films

  • Zoo, directed by Robinson Devor
  • The Bowery—Spring, 1994, dir. Sara Driver
  • Céline et Julie vont en bateau (Celine and Julie Go Boating), dir. Jacques Rivette

january 16–31, 2023

Books

  • Patrick Modiano, Paris Nocturne, translated by Phoebe Weston-Evans
  • Patrick Modiano, Out of the Dark, trans. Jordan Stump
  • Marcel Proust, Letters to the Lady Upstairs, trans. Lydia Davis
  • Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth, trans. Chris Clarke
  • Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink, trans. Mark Polizzotti
  • Erni Salleh, The Java Enigma
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Brothers and Sisters
  • R. C. Sherriff, The Hopkins Manuscript
  • Fredric Jameson, Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality

Films

  • Seance on a Wet Afternoon, directed by Bryan Forbes
  • Lancelot du Lac, dir. Robert Bresson
  • Aftersun, dir. Charlotte Wells
  • Le Diable, probablement (The Devil Probably), dir. Robert Bresson
  • Irma Vep, dir. Olivier Assayas
  • Le notti bianche, dir. Luchino Visconti

january 1–15, 2023

Books

  • Brad Fox, The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths
  • Aelian, On the Nature of Animals, translated by Gregory McNamee
  • César Aira, The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, trans. Katherine Silver
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Dolores
  • Patrick Modiano, Young Once, trans. Damion Searls
  • Patrick Modiano, Sundays in August, trans. Damion Searls
  • Patrick Modiano, After the Circus, trans. Mark Polizzotti
  • Shubigi Rao, Written in the Margins
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pastors and Masters
  • Patrick Modiano, Family Record, trans. Mark Polizzotti
  • Peter C. Baker, Planes
  • Patrick Modiano, Such Fine Boys, trans. Mark Polizzotti
  • Patrick Modiano, Catherine Certitude, trans. William Rodarmor

Films

  • Quatre nuits d’un rêveur (Four Nights of a Dreamer), directed by Robert Bresson
  • Talking Leaves, dir. Shubigi Rao
  • Avatar: The Way of Water, dir. James Cameron
  • Untitled 1981, Bob Singing, The Scissor That Had Found Its Own Pair, Untitled 1985, Karin in Montauk, xxxx_Santa Monica, dir. Rirkrit Tiravanija
  • Glass Onion, dir. Rian Johnson
  • Au poste ! (Keep an Eye Out), dir. Quentin Dupieux
  • Babylon, dir. Damien Chazelle
  • Expedition Content, dir. Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati

Exhibits

  • Singapore Biennale 2022
  • Art SG

december 16–31, 2022

Books

  • Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearls
  • Geoff Dyer, ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: On Where Eagles Dare
  • Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic, translated by David Boyd
  • Bob Ostertag, Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century
  • Ross Feld, Guston in Time
  • Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
  • Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
  • William Melvin Kelly, A Different Drummer
  • Tété-Michel Kpomassie, An African in Greenland, trans. James Kirkup
  • Curzio Malaparte, The Kremlin Ball, trans. Jenny McPhee

Films

  • Incroyable mais vrai (Incredible but True), directed by Quentin Dupieux

december 1–15, 2022

Books

  • Samanta Schweblin, Seven Empty Houses, translated by Megan McDowell
  • Don DeLillo, White Noise
  • James Hannaham, Pilot Impostor
  • Leonardo Sciascia, The Knight and Death, trans. Joseph Farrell
  • Leonardo Sciascia, One Way or Another, trans. Sacha Rabinovitch
  • Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir
  • Geoff Dyer, The Last Days of Roger Federer, and Other Endings
  • Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

Films

  • Fumer fait tousser (Smoking Causes Coughing), directed by Quentin Dupieux
  • Mandibules, dir. Quentin Dupieux
  • Le Daim (Deerskin), dir. Quentin Dupieux
  • Mauvais sang, dir. Leos Carax

november 16–30, 2022

Books

  • Philippe Sollers, The Friendship of Roland Barthes, translated by Andrew Brown
  • John Swartzwelder, The Million Dollar Policeman
  • John Swartzwelder, Detective Made Easy
  • Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary, trans. Richard Howard
  • César Aira, The Famous Magician, trans. Chris Andrews
  • Percival Everett, Dr. No
  • Alain Badiou, The True Life, trans. Susan Spitzer
  • Percival Everett, For Her Dark Skin
  • César Aira, Birthday, trans. Chris Andrews
  • Dave Simpson, The Fallen: Life in and out of Britain’s Most Insane Group
  • Amit Chaudhuri, Sojourn
  • Violaine Schwartz, Papers, trans. Christine Gutman
  • Mohamed Kheir, Slipping, trans. Robin Moger

Films

  • Liebeslieder: Einstürzende Neubauten, directed by Klaus Maeck & Johanna Schenkel
  • Beau travail, dir. Claire Denis
  • Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman), dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • First Cow, dir. Kelly Reichardt
  • 소설가의 영화 (The Novelist’s Film), dir. Hong Sang-soo
  • Life on the CAPS, dir. Meriem Bennani
  • Moby Dick: Or, The Whale, dir. Wu Tsang
  • De Humani Corporis Fabrica, dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel
  • Weekend, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Europa, dir. Lars Von Trier

november 1–15, 2022

Books

  • Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
  • Ada Calhoun, Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me
  • Zerocalcare, Forget My Name, translated by Carla Roncalli di Montorio
  • Francis McKee, How to Know What’s Really Happening
  • Oxana Timofeeva, How to Love a Homeland, trans. Maria Afanasyeva
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard
  • Cornell Woolrich, Manhattan Love Song
  • John Swarzwelder, The Last Detective Alive
  • Eshkol Nevo, Three Floors Up, trans. Sondra Silverston
  • Iris Murdoch, Jackson’s Dilemma
  • Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

Films

  • 헤어질 결심 (Decision to Leave), directed by Park Chan-wook
  • Nadja, dir. Michael Almereyda
  • Boy Meets Girl, dir. Leos Carax
  • Thử Việc (Probationary), dir. Đỗ Văn Hoàng

october 15–31, 2022

Books

  • Maria Golia, Cairo: City of Sand
  • Albert Cossery, A Splendid Conspiracy, trans. Alyson Waters
  • Albert Cossery, The Colors of Infamy, trans. Alyson Waters
  • Naguib Mahfouz, The Quarter, trans. Roger Allen
  • Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile, trans. Frances Liardet
  • Nadia Wassef, Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
  • Toby Wilkinson, The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present
  • Maxim Biller, Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz, trans. Anthea Bell
  • Maria Golia, A Short History of Tomb Raiding: The Epic Hunt for Egypt’s Treasures
  • Colin Dickey, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained

Exhibits

  • National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo, Egypt
  • Luxor Museum, Luxor, Egypt
  • Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, Cairo

Films

  • Il buco, directed by Michelangelo Frammartino